Dr Aylin Ates is the Module Leader for Applied Strategic Management on the Strathclyde MBA, Executive MBA and international MBA programmes. She is an internationally recognised researcher whose work investigates how organisations can develop strategies to build adaptive and resilient capabilities in response to technological disruption, economic shocks and sustainability challenges.
Aylin works closely with practitioners and business leaders to understand the strategic challenges organisations face in practice, from digital transformation and sustainability to growth, resilience and business model innovation. With more than 80 research outputs and over £4.5 million in externally funded research, her work combines academic rigour with a strong emphasis on real-world impact—an approach that reflects the ethos of the Strathclyde MBA. Her research has informed international policy through her work with UNIDO, the European Commission and the ILO, and she has extensive experience working with businesses through industry collaborations and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships.
Aylin brings this applied perspective directly into her MBA teaching. In Applied Strategic Management, she draws on research, contemporary case studies and practitioner insights to help participants critically evaluate strategic choices and translate strategic thinking into practical action and organisational performance.

Dr Abigail Colson is a Senior Lecturer in Management Science with expertise in decision-making under uncertainty. Her research focuses on how expert judgement and quantitative evidence can be combined to support complex decisions, particularly when evidence is limited or uncertain. Much of her work is in public health and health economics. She has worked with government, industry, and third-sector organisations in the UK and internationally.
Abigail leads Managing Value-Driven Analytics, which explores how analysis can support decisions and create value for organisations. Drawing on her research in decision analysis, health economics and expert judgement, she encourages participants to think critically about how evidence, uncertainty and values are incorporated into decision-making, and how analysis can support transparent and defensible decisions.

Phil Considine is Director of Executive Development in the Business School with over two decades of experience in executive education, he has designed and delivered leadership development programmes across Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East for senior executives, board members, and founders navigating complex commercial challenges.
His work sits at the intersection of governance, growth, and capital. He advises leadership teams on building the board-level capability and governance structures that institutional investors expect and has worked extensively with companies preparing for private equity and venture capital investment — helping them close the gap between commercial ambition and investor-readiness. His is module lead for Digital Transformation and Technological Innovation and his teaching on the MBA also covers corporate governance.  He brings a practitioner's perspective shaped by his own experience as both an executive and non-executive director.
He works with businesses at pivotal moments — when they are scaling into new markets, restructuring their leadership and governance for institutional scrutiny, or preparing for a significant capital event. He brings a combination of academic rigour, boardroom experience, and deep commercial understanding of what investors actually require, and he partners with organisations to build the strategic and governance foundations that make growth sustainable and capital accessible.

Professor Alex Dickson is an expert in applied microeconomic theory, with research spanning firm and consumer behaviour, and the interplay between business strategy and policy. Alongside his academic work, he has partnered with numerous organisations in knowledge exchange projects to translate economic insight into real-world impact. This blend of rigorous research and practical engagement makes him the ideal leader for Economic Analysis for Strategists. This module explores how strategic choices, market structures, and external forces shape a firm's ability to be successful, equipping you with the analytical edge to make smarter, more confident business decisions.

Dominic Finn brings together experience from finance, technology and higher education to help students tackle complex organisational challenges. Following a career in banking, investment and small and digital business, he studies in the Management Science department at  Strathclyde before joining the faculty. 
As co-developer of the Consulting Impact Challenge, Dominic specialises in client-engaged learning that bridges academic insight and practical action. He has extensive experience designing and facilitating projects in which students work directly with organisations to address strategic, operational and social challenges. His approach combines analytical rigour with a strong emphasis on collaboration, stakeholder relationships and professional communication.
The Consulting Impact Challenge provides a platform for students to apply their knowledge in a live consulting environment. Under Dominic's leadership, participants develop the skills required to navigate ambiguity, work effectively with clients, and translate analysis into recommendations that deliver lasting value and measurable impact.

MBA Capstone Project Lead
Mrs Michelle Fisher is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Marketing at the University of Strathclyde, with almost three decades of experience spanning higher education, the public and third sectors, international development, and strategic partnership working. Throughout her career, she has collaborated with organisations, government agencies and international stakeholders across diverse cultural and professional contexts, supporting initiatives in organisational development, education, social impact and capacity building.
Michelle leads the MBA Capstone Project, the final integrative stage of the MBA journey. She is responsible for creating a clear, effective and supportive experience for students, supervisors and organisational partners, enabling participants to focus on applying their MBA learning to meaningful organisational challenges. Drawing on extensive experience in programme leadership, MBA/PG Supervision, stakeholder engagement and project management, she oversees the Capstone process from project initiation through to completion, ensuring participants can navigate key milestones with confidence.
Her international and cross-sector experience brings practical relevance to the MBA experience, particularly in areas of collaboration, organisational change and stakeholder management.
Alongside her academic role, Michelle serves as Chair of the Board of Trustees for Starter Packs Glasgow and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing. Through her leadership of the MBA Capstone Project, she supports students and supervisors in delivering projects that demonstrate strategic thinking, professional rigour and organisational value.

Dr Aliakbar Jafari is an internationally recognised scholar in market studies – an interdisciplinary field that examines how markets emerge, evolve, or dissolve over time. His research has advanced contemporary thinking in Marketing and informed both public policy and business practice. His intellectually rigorous and highly engaging teaching combines research-led insights, real-world organisational challenges, case-based learning, and reflective practice to help executives strengthen their strategic thinking, critical decision-making, and leadership capabilities. Drawing on internationally recognised research, extensive industry experience, and a strong track record in executive education, Dr Jafari leads the Marketing Management module on the MBA programme. The module is designed to equip professionals with the strategic perspectives and analytical tools needed to create sustainable business value and navigate complexity, ambiguity, and transformation in today’s interconnected and geopolitically complex global economy.

Dr Mark Johnson began his career in industry and wealth management before transitioning to academia. His industry experience informs his teaching and research, particularly in financial management and management accounting.
Mark is module lead and delivers Accounting and Financial Management to full-time MBA students and executive cohorts both in Glasgow and internationally. Mark holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde and his work has published in top ranked academic journals.

Dr Suzanne Mawson is an academic and educator with expertise spanning entrepreneurship, innovation, business development and growth. Her research focuses on how entrepreneurial thinking, behaviours and capabilities can support individuals and organisations to identify opportunities, navigate uncertainty and create value. Suzanne is particularly interested in how entrepreneurial mindsets can be developed through teaching and learning. She brings this passion, as well as extensive expertise in innovative pedagogy and experiential approaches, to Entrepreneurial Thinking and Practice, which explores how one can develop and harness an entrepreneurial mindset to address professional, organisational and societal opportunities and challenges.

Dr Jed Moore designs and delivers executive education that takes leadership beyond the heroic individual and into the harder, more interesting territory of how organisations actually function. He draws on critical leadership theory, strategy and change management, and on his own experience of continuous improvement in industry, where the gap between the org chart and the way work really gets done is impossible to ignore. His sessions are built on dialogue, live facilitation and real organisational complexity rather than tidy problems with tidy answers, and participants leave better equipped to share power, surface dissent productively, and build organisations people want to work in. He leads two modules on our MBA. The Boardroom Challenge calls for students to design and pitch initiatives into a boardroom environment in which fair and decent work, distributed leadership and employee voice are treated not as ethical add-ons but as economically practicable choices that strengthen performance and resilience. Strategic Leadership Development turns the attention inward, to the interpersonal and intrapersonal drivers of effective leadership, and gives participants the chance to test what they learn against demanding strategic cases, and to carry the habit of reflection well beyond their time with us.

Dr Paul Telemo is the Module Leader for Macroeconomics & International Business Environment. As an expert in macroeconomics and labour economics, his research focuses on structural economic change, technological change, intergenerational mobility and labour-market outcomes. Paul holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. In his MBA teaching, he draws on his research and expertise in macroeconomics to help students understand how developments such as inflation, economic growth, interest rates, exchange rates and economic policy shape the international business environment. The module provides students with frameworks for interpreting economic shocks and assessing their implications for businesses and strategic decision-making.