Donna Whitehead, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean at UWE Bristol’s, Faculty of Business and Law has unveiled an impressive new advisory team of 21 regional business leaders.
The new FBL Faculty Advisory Board has been assembled to look at how the new Faculty and its new £50m building can serve the needs of the region and its economy.
Business leaders from the region’s financial, commercial, legal, public and health sectors are represented on the panel. They are:
Chair – Lord Bichard, Chairman of the National Audit Office
Barbara Davies, Former CEO – West of England Local Enterprise Partnership
Bonnie Dean, CEO – Bristol and Bath Science Park
Chris Nott, Senior Partner – Capital Law
Clive Hetherington, Ex-Area Director – Lloyds Bank
Dame Ruby McGregor-Smith, CEO – Mitie Group
David Relph, Director – Bristol Health Partners
Iain Lovatt, Founder and Chairman – Blue Sheep
Jason Sprague, Management Consultant – ASE Consulting
John Moriarty, President – Bristol Law Society
Karl Brown, Senior Associate – Clark Willmott
Katherine Bennett, Vice-President – Public affairs – Airbus
Keith Probert, MD – Viimi
Luis Garcia, CEO – Bristol Water
Nicola Yates OBE, City Director – Bristol City Council
Peter Rillett, Chairman – North Bristol Trust
Phil Smith, MD – Business West
Rick Sturge, President – ICAEW
Sarah Pullen, MD – Trinity Mirror
Simon Gibson, CEO – Wesley Clover
Vanessa Moon, Moon Consulting
Donna Whitehead, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law says, “We’re delighted by the calibre of our new advisory board and the leadership experience they bring will stand the Faculty in good stead to drive forward our new strategy to make our provision meet the needs of employers and ensure that we forge an international reputation for business and law at UWE Bristol.”
Lord Bichard, Chair of UWE Bristol Faculty of Business and Law advisory board, says, “To be effective universities must work hard to stay close to business; build strong partnerships with local and nationally significant employers; show that they value and respect the voice of industry and look for ways of making their knowledge and research base more accessible to business. This is a partnership of genuine mutual benefit.”
Students are set to benefit from state-of-the art facilities, as the new building for the Faculty of Business and Law draws a step closer to completion. With completion due for January 2017, the new building will include: two showcase law courts, a city trading room, a 300 seat lecture theatre, two Harvard lecture theatres, a number of smaller teaching spaces, IT suites, flexible social learning spaces, external business engagement space, central social space and café.