Professor David Weir, dean and director of several business schools, is a professor of intercultural management at York Business School and a professor of emeritus at Northumbria University.
His experience includes being Director of the Management and Business School at the Universities of Glasgow, Bradford, Northumbria (from which he is an Emeritus), University Campus Suffolk, and Liverpool Hope. His academic appointments also cover Manchester Business School, Aberdeen, Leeds, Hull, Manchester Universities, Liverpool Hope University, University Campus, Suffolk, and ESC Rennes in France.
Professor David Weir's experience also encompasses Visiting Professorships at Hull, Edge Hill, the University of the West of England, Lancaster and Lincoln Universities, and being a Professor of Management at CERAM Sophia Antipolis, France, between 2000-2007. He has also taught at many other business schools and Universities worldwide. He has worked with many international institutions, including the University of Botswana, the University of Mauritius, ISCAE (Morocco), National Graduate University (Libya), ESAN (Peru) and the African Association of University Vice Chancellor's, UNESCO, UNIDO, The World Bank, EURECNA, the Government of the Netherlands and the Islamic Development Bank.
Professor Weir has supervised more than 60 PhD theses on management aspects. He is active in research and scholarly publications and has published extensively on management in the Arab world and expatriate managers. He recently co-authored "The New Post-oil Arab Gulf: Managing People and Wealth," published by Al-Saqi, and "From Critique to Action: The Practical Ethics of the Organisational World" (New Insights), published by Cambridge Scholars.
Professor Weir is a Partner at Fourth Paradigm Consulting and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Cambridge Scholars. He was the first elected Chair of the Association of Business Schools and is a Companion of the Chartered Institute of Management and Burgess of the City of Glasgow. He has also been a member of the Committee of Inquiry into the Engineering Profession (Finniston Committee), the Sociology and Social Administration Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council, Chair of the Teaching Company Management Committee of the Science and Engineering Research Council and a member of the Research Assessment Panel for Business and Management and of the Council for National Academic Awards.
