{"id":3563,"date":"2016-06-23T15:16:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=3563"},"modified":"2016-06-23T15:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:16:44","slug":"prestigious-appointment-for-executive-dean-of-ou-business-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/business-law\/prestigious-appointment-for-executive-dean-of-ou-business-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Prestigious appointment for Executive Dean of OU Business School"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Rebecca Taylor, Executive Dean of The Open University Business School, has been appointed Vice-President (academic) of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD).<\/a><\/p>\n

The EFMD is an international membership organisation with over 800 members from academia, business, public service and consultancy across 81 countries. They provide accreditation services (including EQUIS) that aim to raise the standards of management education around the world.<\/p>\n

Professor Rebecca Taylor, Executive Dean, The Open University Business School<\/a>, said of her appointment:\u00a0\u201cI feel very honoured to accept this role. The EFMD is an organisation that shares the OU Business School\u2019s ethos of true collaboration between academia and industry, in order to develop best<\/p>\n

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Professor Rebecca Taylor, Executive Dean of the OU Business School<\/p><\/div>\n

practice in management education.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look forward to working with the EFMD\u2019s influential network to support the continued advancement of management thinking across the world, to the benefit of the business education sector.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eric Cornuel, Director General and CEO of the EFMD<\/a>, recognised Rebecca\u2019s expertise in both traditional and technology enhanced learning environments:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve had the pleasure of working with Rebecca for the past three years on the EFMD Board, and we are very pleased to work more closely with her as Vice-President (academic).<\/p>\n

“With her extensive experience in both face-to-face and online business education, Rebecca\u2019s appointment will support the EFMD in continuing to act as a catalyst to promote and enhance excellence in management development, in all its forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

Professor Taylor\u2019s nomination was ratified at EFMD\u2019s general assembly in Brussels earlier this month (13 June 2016). Professor Taylor succeeds Professor Sue Cox, School of Management, Lancaster University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Rebecca Taylor, Executive Dean of The Open University Business School, has been appointed Vice-President (academic) of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). The EFMD is an international membership organisation with over 800 members from academia, business, public service and consultancy across 81 countries. They provide accreditation services (including EQUIS) that aim to raise […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":3566,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1358,1604,1879],"class_list":["post-3563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-law","tag-management","tag-open-university-business-school","tag-rebecca-taylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}