Advisory Panel

Sun Tzu Art of War Institute combines contemporary research methodology with conventional Chinese Wisdom to develop new program initiatives. Besides promoting and harvesting Chinese Wisdom into contemporary management through Chinese Management Studies, Sun Tzu Art of War Institute invites professors globally to participate as our Advisory Panel.

Emeritus Professor of the University of St. Andrews MA, PhD

Research Interests: Strategic management, corporate renewal; cognitive approaches to group strategic decision taking; senior management cognition

Professor Peter Grinyer is an Emeritus Professor of the University of St. Andrews. His first degree (1957) was in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University and his Ph. D. (1968) was in Applied Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, London University.

Professor Peter Grinyer has had an unusual career in that it spans positions of leadership in University administration, significant positions as a non-executive director and Chairman of companies, membership of important non-governmental public bodies, and academic contributions as a dedicated teacher and researcher.

He has held the Foundation for Management Education Chair in Business Strategy at the City University, London and the Esmee Fairbairn Chair in Economics (Finance and Investment) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has also been a Visiting Professor for four years at the Stern School of Business, New York University , and an Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and is currently a Visiting Professor at Imperial College, London. He was appointed by the Secretary of State for Scotland as a member of the Scottish Legal Aid Board (1992-2000) where he chaired a number of important committees. In 2000 he was appointed by the Secretary of State for Industry as a Member of the Competition Commission to serve on its Appeals Tribunal (CCAT). In 2003 the Tribunal was reconstituted as the Competition Appeals Tribunal (CAT) and its role was extended by the 2002 Enterprise Act. Professor Grinyer, together with the other CCAT members, was appointed to the new CAT on which he currently serves.

As a company director, he was involved with strategic decision taking of five companies, and was involved in one contested takeover and three agreed ones. These companies included three quoted on the London Stock Exchange (John Brown plc, Ellis and Goldstein plc and Don Bros. Buist plc), and a small, private, but high profile design consultancy of which he was Chairman (McIlroy Coates). Peter Grinyer has also made significant, some much cited, contributions to the literature. He has had some 60 papers published in the journals or as book chapters and five books reporting his research. Following early work in the area of operational research and industrial engineering, he undertook research on strategic planning, and was among the first to apply cross sectional statistical analysis in empirical studies in this area.

Professor Foo Check Teck

Honorary Professor of Competitive Strategy

Research Expertise: Strategy, Finance and Technology

Dr FOO Check Teck believed deeply in taking a holistic approach to life, education and self-development. He had published extensively and across various several disciplinary journals (e.g. Organization Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Omega, Systems Engineering, Long Range Planning, Technovation, Juridical Review, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, Journal of Risk Finance etc.) as well as in emerging Chinese and Indian management. He is especially known globally for his efforts in encouraging efforts by scholars to research on managing inside China. Recently he was invited to Harvard to chair a session at first China Goes Global Conference and is regularly featured by Chartered Financial Analyst in India for his insights on corporate strategy in global automobile industry.

Professor Foo Check Teck is uniquely multi-talented and multi-disciplined visionary, (Name: Man of Renaissance by Straits Times). His diversity is reflected in qualifications, working experience and his extensive yet multi-faceted research interest. Coupled with his years of industry experience in MNCs, Professor Foo has developed the unique ability to translate on over 2,500 years old “Art of War” stratagems into business strategies to unlock the potential in all business leaders.

Prof Foo’s credentials are impressive: Ph.D. (Strategy, St. Andrews), MBA in Finance (City University of London, postgraduate award winner), LLB (Hons, London), FCMA, FCIM, ACIS, Barrister-at-law, Advocate and Solicitor. His book Organizing Strategy: Sun Tzu Business Warcraft was chosen by Blackwell in Oxford as both Book-of-the-Month and Spring’s Choice. Reminiscences of an Ancient Strategist: Mind of Sun Tzu was widely praised and was recommended by the prestigious London World Review. BBC also featured him in its Global Finance program. His research on corporate identity strategy won him an excellence award from the UK Literati Club.

He is also a Honorary Research Professor of International Business at Copenhagen Business College, Denmark, Visiting Professor of Technology Strategy with the New York Institute of Technology, US; a registered UN consultant, Coordinator for Asia for the International Center for Corporate Identity Studies based in Glasgow, UK. He was formerly an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Strategic Management at Scotland’s oldest and most established university, the University of St. Andrews. The author of several award winning books on Sun Tzu Stratagems, Prof Foo have trained over thousands of professionals from both government and private industries throughout the Asia Pacific Region. As a much demanded leadership & strategy trainer, his unique and entertaining style of delivery has won him numerous rave reviews.

Qualifications
LLB (Hons, 1979) University of London
MBA (Finance, 1982) City University of London (now Cass Business School; postgraduate award winner)
PhD (Strategy, 1990) University of St Andrews; Department of Economics (early completion)
Barrister-at-law (1982, Lincoln’s Inn, England and Wales)
Advocate and Solicitor (1983, Supreme Court of Singapore)
Fellow Chartered Management Accountant, UK
Fellow Certified Chartered Accountant, UK
Fellow Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
Associate Chartered Institute of Secretaries and Administrators, UK
Certified Public Accountant, (Singapore)

Current Affiliations
Professor and Honorary Chair of Competitive Strategy (since 2004), School of Management, University of St Andrews
Visiting Distinguished Research Professor of International Financial Strategy, Baruch College, City University of New York, CUNY, USA. (Distinguished Professor of Finance, CUNY ASEAN Office, Adventis School of Management, Singapore)
Associate Professor, Systems Engineering Management, School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Founding Senior Associate, Asia Institute, Solbridge International Business School, Woo Sung University, Daejeon, Korea.
Academic Advisor, University of Liverpool LLM, UK

International Editorial Roles
Founding Editor-in-Chief, Chinese Management Studies, Emerald Publishers
Editor, Cognitive Neurodynamics, Springer’s Science
Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, InderScience Publishers
Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Management History, Emerald Publishers
Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Emerald Publishers
Editorial Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Journal of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Asian Association of Business Incubation
Editorial Advisory Board, Corporate Communications: An International Journal, Emerald Publishers
Associate Editor, International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, Common Ground Publishing

Major Awards
1998 Reminiscences of an Ancient Strategist: Mind of Sun Tzu won the National Book Development Council of Singapore (NBDCS) Award.
1994 Organizing Strategy: Sun Tzu Business Warcraft, chosen by Blackwell in Oxford as “Book of the Month” and Sun Tzu on Management, paperback as “Spring’s Choice”.
2009: Expert commentator, US History Channel on Art of War.
2000 & 2002 Awards for Excellence (including Outstanding Paper) (Papers on Corporate Identity and Strategy) (UK Literati Club)
2004 National Arts Council of Singapore Award (grant) for Solo Photography on Vietnamese Entrepreneurial Spirit
2007 Award for Excellence, (Paper on Tao of CEO), UK Literati Club.

Professor Peter Mckiernan
Dean of School of Management, University of St. Andrews
Dean of School of Management, University of St. Andrews
Professor Peter Mckiernan is the Dean of the School of Management at St Andrews University Business School, UK. He has previously held posts at the University of Warwick and the University of Strathclyde and has considerable business experience, having consulted widely in the strategy area for leading multinational companies, in the public sector and for SMEs. Peter is currently President Elect of the European Academy of Management.
•BA Economics, 1975 Lanchester Polytechnic, Coventry
Experience

• MA Business Analysis, 1976 University of Lancaster
• PhD Strategic Management, 1980 University of Surrey
• Lecturer in Management, University of St Andrews
• Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management, University of Warwick
• Professor of Management, University of St Andrews
• Professor of Strategic Management, University of Warwick
• Visiting Professor of Strategic Management, University of Strathclyde

British Academy of Management (BAM)
• Fellow, since 1996
• Past Chairman, 2001 - 2003
• Past Vice President, 2004
• Past President, 2005
• Dean of the Fellows College (current)

European Academy of Management (EURAM)
• Vice President (External Relations), 2000 - 2006
• President, 2006 - current

Association of Business Schools (ABS)
• Chair of ABS (Scotland), 2010 - current
• Member of Executive Board, 2009 - current
• Companion of the Association of Business Schools, 2007 - current

Academy of Social Sciences (The Academy)
• Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2006 - current

Previous Positions as Divisional MD and Group FD in Mechanical Engineering Sector:
• Consultancies and Executive Training for GEC, Philips, IBM, Reed-Elsevier, Nestle, Cooperative Society, Shell, Exxon, BP, Sumitomo-Lumonics, John Brown, Longmans, Siemens-GPT, Continental Can, BT, Ford of Europe, NEDO, Scottish Office and many SMEs.

Inaugural Director of Management Courses, University of St Andrews, 1984 - 1988

Director of FTMBA, Warwick Business School Convenor of Marketing & Strategy Group, Warwick Business School, 1988 - 1992

Chair of the Department of Management, University of St Andrews, 1992 - 1994; 1996 - 1999

Research Director, University of St Andrews, 1992 - 2005

Member of Scientific Committee, Reims Management School, 2010 - current

Publications
Peter sits on the editorial boards of the European Management Review, Chinese Management Studies, Irish Journal of Management and the Cambridge University Press Companions to Management Editorial Advisory Board.

Dr Sheh Seow Wah

Professor Sheh Seow Wah is is a recognized scholar by the Public Service Department (Malaysia). He was further awarded research scholarship by National University of Singapore, whereby his research interest lies in Chinese values, Chinese management and organzational practises, and Change management for Small & Medium enterprises. He has over 70 publications in local daily, in-house corporate magazines, national and international journals and 3 books.

Dr Sheh has numerous marketing and consultation experiences. He has been in the education industry in both Singapore and Malaysia for more than 20 years. He was a Organization Health Survey consultants for a Singapore’s public higher learning institutes in 2003 and 2006. He was also a Organization Behaviour consultant for one of the ‘big six’ consultation firms in malaysia. He is currently engaged as an internal Management Consultant for a shipping and resource-based conglomerate in Singapore. He specializes in family business succession program

Contemporary Chinese Leadership: Lessons from the Classics By Dr Sheh Seow Wah

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/cna/bizhub/bizadvice/todaymanager2504.htm

PROFESSOR ZHANG YEN MING,

DOCTOR OF EDUCATION, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Expert field: Yijing, Dao De Jing, Cultural Leadership, Liu Tao, San Lue, Shang Shu

Dr Zhang Yen Ming is a leading expert in strategic planning with over 20 years in teaching and consultancy projects. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Policy and Leadership Studies (PLS) Academic Group, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He is involved in the Leadership in Education (International) Program, Diploma in Departmental Management (DDM) for heads of department training, Post-Graduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) and Master of Educational Administration (MEA) programs. He has tremendous experience teaching and coaching government officials from China and is part of the Editoral Board for Chinese Management Studies Journal.

Dr Zhang Yen Ming is born in Luoyang, China.. Dr. Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Policy and Leadership Studies (PLS) Academic Group, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, with over 15 years in teaching and consultancy projects. eceiving his Masters and Doctorate from Harvard Business School, Dr Zhang has been researching deeply in Yijing, Dao De Jing, Liu Tao, San Lue & Shang Shu, Cultural Leadership, Application of Eastern philosophy to modern organizational leadership and Management consultancy in China. He is part of the Editoral Board for Chinese Management Studies Journal.