Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas
Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas is Leader of the International Governance Initiative of the Order of St Lazarus and President of the Institute of Management Services, has helped directors in over 40 countries to improve director, board and corporate performance. An experienced director, board chair and process vision holder of complex and mission critical transformation programmes, he is the Director-General for the UK and Europe of India’s Institute of Directors, Chancellor of the School for the Creative Arts and chair of United Learning’s group Risk and Audit Committee. He is also the author of over 60 books and reports, well over 1,000 articles, and theme papers for five annual international conferences for business leaders held in Dubai, India, Singapore and the UK.
Colin has held various public appointments at national, regional and local level, and has had professorial roles in Europe, North and South America, Africa, the Middle East, India and China and been a Dean of Faculty and head of a university campus and chairman and/or president of professional bodies and think tanks. His current academic appointments include being a Distinguished Professor at the Sri Sharada Institute of Indian Management-Research, an Honorary Professor at the Aston India Centre for Applied Research and Visiting Professor of Direction and Leadership at Lincoln International Business School.
Colin was educated at the London School of Economics, the London Business School, UNISA and the Universities of Aston, Chicago and Southern California, Colin holds honorary fellowships of professional associations in both the UK and India. He is a fellow of seven chartered bodies and obtained first place prizes in the final exams of three professions. Colin received the CSR Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 CSR Leadership Summit.
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