(OBE)

Appointed Governor December 2009.

Michael Osbaldeston was appointed Director of Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, in January 2003, to provide strategic leadership for the School's research, teaching, professional and administrative staff.

During 2000-02 Michael was Head of Global Learning in the HR Corporate Centre of Shell International. He provided functional leadership to Shell's learning and education professional community worldwide, concerned with technical and skills training, change management and transformation learning, and management and leadership development.

During 1990-99, Michael was Chief Executive of Ashridge Management College, with responsibility for the strategic development of its management research, executive education and organisation consulting services. Michael joined Ashridge as a researcher and worked on a wide range of projects in the chemical, construction and motor industries. On transferring to the teaching faculty, he concentrated his education and consultancy interests in the human resource management field. In 1985, he was appointed Director of Studies, a role which he combined with Deputy Principal, before becoming the Dean in 1988.

Michael retired from the Deanship of Cranfield in April 2009 and was appointed an Emeritus Professor of Cranfield University. He is the Past Chairman of the Association of Business Schools, a Non-Executive Director of the University of Stellenbosch Business School -Executive Education Ltd, and was previously a Vice President of the European Foundation for Management Development. More recently, he has been appointed as a Vice-President of Ashridge Business School, a Governor of the Royal Agricultural College and International Development Advisor at SKEMA Business School, formed by the recent merger of Ceram and ESC Lille.

Michael was awarded an OBE, for services to national and international higher education, in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2008.

He currently sits on the School of Business Board