Professor Sue Cox has been Dean of Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) since 2001. Prior to that she was Professor of Safety and Risk Management and Director of Loughborough Business School. She was awarded the OBE for services to social science in 2011.

Under her leadership, LUMS has been one of a select few to achieve the accreditation ‘hatrick’ of EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA. In the last five years she has overseen the expansion of the School both nationally and internationally, and at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Professor Cox is regularly in demand to serve as a member of professional bodies. Amongst her other commitments, she is Academic Vice-President of EFMD, a member of the EFMD Board, a member of the EQUIS Awarding Body and the AACSB Accreditation Quality Committee, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and a Companion of the Associate of Business Schools and Chartered Management Institute.