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President and Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange

Kellogg College

University of Oxford

Oxford

United Kingdom

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Jonathan Michie OBE FAcSS is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Oxford, where he is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (without portfolio), President of Kellogg College, and an Honorary Norham Fellow in the Department of Education, and a member of the Department’s SKOPE research centre. Before returning to Oxford in 2008, he was Dean of Birmingham Business School; before that he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London, where he was Head of the School of Management & Organisational Psychology; and before that was at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, where he was also Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College, a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Business Research, and Director of the ESRC Research Programme on Contracts & Competition. Jonathan moved into academia from Brussels, where he was an Expert to the European Commission.

Jonathan became Chair of the Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) in May 2020. He is an Honorary Professor of Economics in the Education Department of the University of Nottingham; and Senior Fellow of Rutgers University, USA. He was joint secretary of the 2019 Centenary Commission on Adult Education, an Interdisciplinary Panel Member for REF2021, and is Managing Editor of the International Review of Applied Economics. Jonathan is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and was awarded an OBE for his services to education and lifelong learning.