Senior Management Team
Professor Nigel Healey
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of College, Business, Law and Social Sciences
Prior to joining Nottingham Trent University in mid-2011, Nigel was Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of the College of Business and Economics at the University of Canterbury (UC) in New Zealand (2004-11). He has previously held the positions of Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (2000-04), Head of Department of Business Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University (1996-2000) and Director of the Centre for European Economic Studies (1990-96) and Jean Monnet Chair of European Economic Studies at the University of Leicester (1994-96).
He has served as an economic policy advisor to the Prime Minister of Belarus and the Deputy Minister of Economy of the Russian Federation and managed a number of international research and educational development projects in central and eastern Europe and south-east Asia. He has held Visiting Professorships at Kent State University (USA), South Dakota State University (USA), Vilnius University (Lithuania), University of Gdansk (Poland), St Methodius and St Cyril University (Bulgaria), Szczecin University (Poland), where he also chaired the MBA Scientific Committee (1998-2004), and Belarus State University.
His research interests have included economic transition (ie the marketisation of former centrally-planned economies), regional economic integration, globalisation and educational development. His current research focuses on the internationalisation of higher education, with particular reference to the Asia-Pacific region, and developments in higher education policy nationally and internationally. Nigel is a long-standing member of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) and currently chairs the conference organising committee for the Asia-Pacific Professional Leaders in Education (QS-APPLE), an annual conference for Asia-Pacific university presidents and senior policymakers tracking developments in regional higher education. He has served as a member of the Executives of the Association of Business Schools (UK) and the Australia and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) and the International Accreditation Advisory Board of the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
