Responses to globalisation: lessons from the man-made fibres industry

Sir Geoffrey Owen is Senior Fellow at the Department of Management, London School of Economics, where he conducts teaching and research in the field of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international competition.

He was born in 1934 and educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classics. After two years' national service in the Royal Air Force, he joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in 1958. He held several posts on that paper, including those of Industrial Editor, and US Correspondent based in New York. He was deputy editor of the Financial Times from 1973 to 1980 and editor from 1981 to 1990.

Between 1968 and 1973 Sir Geoffrey left journalism, serving first as an executive in the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and then as personnel director in the overseas division of British Leyland Motor Corporation.

 

He joined the London School of Economics in 1991, working first in the Centre for Economic Performance before switching to the Institute of Management.

He was a non-executive director of Laird Group plc from 2001 to the end of 2006, and is currently chairman of the Wincott Foundation and a governor of the Olayan School of Business at the American University of Beirut.

He was knighted in 1989.

Key Publications

• "Industry in the USA" (Penguin 1967)
• "From Empire to Europe: the decline and revival of British industry since the Second World War" (HarperCollins 1999)
• "Where are the big gorillas? High technology entrepreneurship in the UK and the role of public policy" (Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, 2004)
• With Tom Kirchmaier and Jeremy Grant: "Corporate governance in the US and Europe: where are we now?" (Palgrave 2006)
• With Tom Kirchmaier: "The changing role of the Chairman" (Chairmen's Forum , 2006)
• Sir Geoffrey has also contributed to several management journals including the Harvard Business Review.

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^{Venue: Lilybank House Seminar Room}

^{Time: 11am}

^{Tea, coffee & biscuits will be provided.}

 

First published: 14 May 2009