Paul Marshall took up the appointment of Chief Executive of the Association of Business Schools in January 2012. He is the head of the Association’s Executive Team and is responsible for the development, management and delivery of all Association activity including research and development, government liaison and stakeholder relations.

His opinion is regularly sought by the media and he speaks at national and international conferences on a diverse range of themes reflecting Association’s mission to set the agenda for business and management education. Publications include ‘Binning the Bill is Bad for Britain,' Research Fortnight (February 2012), ‘New Approaches to Widening Participation in a VUCA world’, Reforming the Academy: How Can UK Universities Adapt to the New Policy Environment, 1994 Group (September 2011); and ‘Meeting the challenge of heightened expectations: how universities can enhance the student experience’, Blue Skies: New Thinking about the Future of Higher Education, Louis Coiffat Ed, Pearson (May 2011).

A graduate of the University of Sussex (B.A. Hons. American Studies (History), M.A. American History), Paul began his career as Assistant Planning Officer at the University of Sussex in 1997 before moving to the position of Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor in 2001. He was appointed as the first Executive Director of the 1994 Group of Universities in January 2006. In this role he was responsible for formalising the operational structures of the Group and leading a substantial program of policy development work. He managed projects which resulted in the publication of 14 significant reports on a diverse range of topics including University-Business relations; the Student Experience; Graduate Employability and the Internationalisation of UK HE.

Paul is currently a member of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills Business Schools Taskforce and the board of EQUAL (The Association of European Business School Associations). Between 2009 and 2010 he chaired the national Creative and Media Diploma Development Partnership Higher Education Advisory Group and was a member of the Department for Children, Schools and Families 14-19 Higher Education Progression Board (2007-10) and the Higher Education Review of Funding and Finance (Browne Review) Advisory Forum (2009-10).