"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
Director of Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Professor of Management Studies, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. Non-Executive Board Member of the Management Board of the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (from 2007); Chairman of the Board of UrbietOrbi, Paris (from 2006); Member of the Board of Dassault Systemes, Paris (from 2005) and Option International, N.V., Belgium (from 1997). Previously, Professor De Meyer has been a member of the Singapore Economic Review Committee (2002) and the Advisory Board of the Waseda Asia-Pacific Institute (1997-2000). Before joining Judge Business School, Professor 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
President of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Director of the Research Centre in Superconductivity, Cavendish Laboratory, and 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.
Sir Christopher Hum MA, KCMG
Master of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge from January 2006. Honorary Fellow at Pembroke College, Cambridge. 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.
