"I am very pleased to be acting and working as Advisor to Cambridge University Education Without Borders. Members of the Advisory Board, who all have extensive knowledge of British and Chinese affairs, believe this new initiative can have a very significant positive impact on approaches not only to education, but to knowledge sharing and the enrichment of experience through evolving cultural understanding between peoples in many parts of our world. It seems most appropriate, that as technology enables the removal of distance between nations and people, that education and business too, take advantage of our enhanced abilities to communicate and work together. We feel this is a most important development which is deserving of broad international support."
– Prof. Alan Barrell DBA, FRSA, Advisor to CUEWB
CUEWB benefits greatly from the advice and guidance of its Advisory Board. Its members are as follows:
Prof. Arnoud De Meyer MSc, MBA, PhD
Director of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Professor of Management Studies, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. President of the Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute. Member of the Board of Dassault Systemes, Paris (from 2005), Option International, N.V., Belgium (from 1997), and the ifs School of Finance Board of Governors (from 2008). Member of the EPSRC College. Previously, Professor De Meyer has been a Non-Executive Board Member of the Management Board of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (from 2007-2009), a member of the Singapore Economic Review Committee (2002) and the Advisory Board of the Waseda Asia-Pacific Institute (1997-2000), and a board member of Infocomm Development Authority, Singapore (2000-2003), Sentosa Island Corporation, Singapore (2001-2002), Ancorabel, N.V., Belgium (1998-2003), the Euro-Asia Centre, Fontainebleau (1988-1992), Video Management, Belgium (1988-2000), and Terbeke International N.V., Netherlands (1986-1989). Prof. De Meyer was associated for 23 years with INSEAD as a professor and as Dean for the MBA programme, Executive Education and the Euro Asia Centre. He was also the founding Dean of INSEAD's Asia Campus in Singapore.
Prof. Alan Barrell DBA, FRSA
Prof. Barrell has spent 30 years in senior executive positions in technology based companies, including chief executive roles at Baxter Healthcare, Domino Printing Sciences and Willett International. Latterly he has spent time at various board positions in early stage companies including chairmanship of the Cambridge Gateway Fund, founder shareholder of Library House Ltd. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of Cambridge Entrepreneurship Centre. His work in these areas recently led him to becoming one of the first recipients of The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion. Most recently, he has been appointed as International Advisor to Youth Business China (YBC).
Mr. Christian Hobson
Christian started his career as a military psychologist in British Government service designing aircrew assessment and selection processes for the UK Ministry of Defence. He then moved to Merrill Lynch as European Head of Leadership and Development. Christian is currently head of Leadership and Performance at Nomura International PLC and is responsible for European Development and International Graduate Recruitment. He is a Chartered Psychologist and regularly speaks at international conferences on assessment, selection and employee engagement.
Prof. W. Yao Liang PhD
President of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Life Fellow and College Lecturer in Physics, also Emeritus Professor of Superconductivity in the Department of Physics, and former Head of Shoenberg Laboratory for Quantum Matter. Main research interests: electronic properties of low dimensional solids, physics of superconductivity and quantum critical phenomena in heavy Fermion metals.
Mr. Jack Lang MA
Jack Lang is a serial entrepreneur and business angel, and Cofounder of Artimi Ltd. He left the University to found (with Prof Shon Ffowcs-Williams) the consulting company Topexpress. Jack was founder of Netchannel Ltd, which was acquired in 1998 by ntl, where he became Chief Technologist. Before that he founded Electronic Share Information Ltd, acquired by E*Trade Inc in 1995. He is author of The High Tech Entrepreneurs Handbook and teaches and examines courses in Business Studies, Entrepreneurship and Ecommerce for the University of Cambridge Computer Science Laboratory. He is Entrepreneur in Residence at the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and a By-Fellow at Emmanuel College.
Sir Christopher Hum MA, KCMG
Master of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge from January 2006. Previously had a career in HM Diplomatic Service, culminating in postings as British Ambassador to Poland (1996-1998) and to China (2002-2005). Continues to follow the politics, economics and international relations of contemporary China.
