| Professor Susan Vinnicombe OBE MA PhD MCIM FRSA Director of the Centre |  |
| Dr. Deirdre Anderson MSc MRes PhD FME/ESRC Teaching Fellow |
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| Dr. Ruth Sealy BSc MSc PhD MCIPD Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director of the Centre | 
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Members of the Centre |
| Melissa Carr Melissa is a part-time PhD student exploring women’s relationships with other women in extreme gendered cultures. She is also a member of faculty at Ashridge Management College.
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| Halla Tomasdottir Halla is a DBA student exploring how top corporate executive directors in Iceland describe, see and do leadership. She is currently on leave following an appointment as the first female head of the Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. |  |
| Thoranna Jonsdottir Thoranna is a DBA student examining gender and the experiences of board members as they take up their governance roles on Icelandic boards. |  |
| Elena Doldor Elena is a full-time PhD student exploring the relationship between the use of political behavior and emergent leadership from a gendered perspective. She has an ESRC PhD studentship. Elena has gained a Fulbright Award to study in Chicago's Northwestern University with Professor Alice Eagly from November 2007 to September 2008. |  |
| Doyin Atewologun Doyin is a full-time PhD student exploring the irole that positive identityplays in the experiences ofblack and minority ethnic organizational leaders' careers. Doyin has an ESRC Award. She is a psychologist who previously worked for OPP. |  |
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| Mary Gaughan Mary is a part-time PhD student examining the influence of search consultants' networks on the recruitment of female directors. Mary is a faculty member at Ashridge Management College. |
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| Dr Val Singh BSc PhD DipAppSS FRSA FHEA Val was the Deputy Director of the Centre until she retired in 2008 and is now a Visiting Fellow. Whilst at Cranfield her research included the Female FTSE Report, ethnicity of directors, gendered cultures in science and engineering boardrooms, diversity management, and women's careers. She was Gender Editor of Journal of Business Ethics, and Associate Editor of Gender, Work & Organization. | 
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| Dr Savita Kumra BA MSc PhD Savita is a Visiting Research Fellow and an associate lecturer on the Executive Development Programmes. She is a Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. |  |
| Dr Dale Nelson BSc DipBusStud, MSc PhD Chartered Psychologist, Visiting Fellow Dale is a Visiting Fellow. She completed her PhD in the Centre, supervised by Susan Vinnicombe. She studied the importance of personal fit and chemistry in the appointment of Chief Executives in UK local government. Dale worked on the Gender and Boardroom Cultures research project with Val Singh in 2007. She is a consultant and executive coach, now resident in New Zealand. |  |
| Jacey Graham, Visiting Fellow Jacey is Managing Partner and co-founder of Brook Graham LLP. She has previously been head of diversity at Lloyds TSB and Shell, with many years of experience in diversity management, particularly in relation to gender. Jacey set up and manages the FTSE100 Cross Company Mentoring Programme and is also co-author of ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Boardroom’, published in 2005 by Palgrave MacMillan |  |
| Aurora S Chen
Aurora is a Visiting Fellow at the International Centre for Women Leaders. Her research interests focus on how female managers develop their careers in different countries. She completed her part-time doctoral research, which involved in-depth interviews with 36 women in the UK and Taiwan. |  |
| Dr Sarah Rutherford, Visiting Fellow Dr Sarah Rutherford , researcher and consultant. Author of The Business of Diversity; how organisations in the public and private sectors are integrating equality and diversity to enhance business performance ( Schneider-Ross 2002) and Diversity Dimensions: integrating diversity into organisational cultures (Opportunity Now 2004). She has worked closely with many organisations at a senior level on the implementation and integration of diversity. Until recently she was a non-executive director of Singer & Friedlander, a FTSE 250 company and has a sound knowledge of corporate governance. | |