Joe Nellis BSc (Econ) MA PhD FHEA AcSS
Professor of International Management Economics, Director of Policy, Strategy & Performance Community
Joe joined the Cranfield School of Management in 1984 and contributes to the full range of the School`s postgraduate and post-experience management programmes. He was formerly Academic Dean of the Faculty of Management (2003-05) and Pro-Vice Chancellor of Cranfield University (2005-08). He is currently Director of the Policy, Strategy & Performance Academic Community within the School and sits on the School's Executive Board.
Prior to life at Cranfield, Joe studied at the Universities of Ulster and Warwick and was on the staff of the Universities of Loughborough and Keele. He has spent two years as a teacher on Voluntary Service Overseas in Ghana. He makes regular return visits to Ghana.
He has held Visiting Professorships at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue, Indiana, USA; Central European University (CEU), Budapest; Tias Business School, Tilburg University, The Netherlands; Management Center Innsbruck, Austria; GISMA in Hannover, Germany and the Ghanaian Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana. He is a member of The Association of MBA's International Accreditation Advisory Board. In 2000, he received an Outstanding Professor award in Hungary for his contribution to curriculum development, funded by the TEMPUS Programme of the European Union. He is recipient of the 2005 Distinguished Graduate Award from the University of Ulster, and in 2008 he received the Best Professor Award from GISMA/Purdue University .
Joe has published 18 books and over 200 academic and practitioner journal articles. His research encompasses analysis of business developments in a changing world in terms of the macroeconomy, the role of government, the impact of technology, societal and demographic trends.
Joe is a frequent contributor to a wide range of international conferences and is a consultant to a number of UK and international companies in the areas of strategy and business environmental analysis, strategy formulation and management development. He has also acted as a consultant to several central government departments and public sector organisations.