BSc and MBA, UCLA; PhD, Univ. of Leeds, UK. Formerly, Head, Manchester School of Mgmt.; 1995-2002, Pro Vice-Chancellor, then Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Manchester Inst. of Science and Technology; 2003-10 and from 2012-2015 Pro Vice-Chancellor, Lancaster Univ. 2015- 50th Anniversary Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. Former Chair, Academy of Social Sciences (2009-2015), Former President: British Assoc. of Counselling and Psychotherapy;President of RELATE; President of Inst. of Welfare; President of the British Academy of Management. Fellow: Royal Society of Arts; Royal Society of Medicine; Royal Society of Public Health; British Psychological Society. Honorary Fellow, Royal College of Physicians, UK and Ireland, President of the CIPD 2016. Editor and Author of over 160 books. Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2001), Knighted by the Queen of England in 2014 for services to the social sciences