Introducing Professor Carl Gavin: Management School’s new Director of Executive Education
We are delighted to announce project management expert, Professor Carl Gavin, has been appointed as the new Director of Executive Education at the University of Liverpool Management School.
Carl is joining us after over 12 years in the Executive Education Division of Alliance Manchester Business School (University of Manchester), where he served as Programme Director of Custom Executive Education Programmes.
Alongside this role, Carl is also joining the School’s Operations and Supply Chain Management Group as Professor of Project Management, following a success career in higher education.
“I am delighted Carl will be joining us”, said Dean of the Management School, Professor Julia Balogun.
“Given the development of the School since 2016, now is the right time to be extending our executive education offering beyond sport, and with his experience Carl will give us the additional capacity and leadership we need to do so.
“Professor Sue Bridgewater (former Director) will continue to support our growth and strengthen our profile internationally in the executive education for sports business and management.”
For Carl, this is a return to the University of Liverpool after 27 years from completing his first degree and PhD in the Department of Computer Science, which led to a career as researcher and Operations Management Lecturer in the former Department of Industrial Studies (integrated in ULMS since 2002).
During his time in Manchester, Carl has built a successful portfolio of executive education programmes delivered across the world for high profile public and private organisations, in a broad range of sectors.
These include leaders in transport and logistics, energy production, defence, health, food and agriculture, and manufacturing.
Carl is enthusiastic about the benefits of executive education for both clients and the School, and strives to make a tangible and positive difference for client organisations and their delegates.
His strategic approach to executive education goes beyond the successful delivery of the programmes and includes the development of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, commissioned research, consultancy projects, new intellectual property and new content for teaching.
Carl is actively engaged in practice-oriented scholarship and business research focused on project leadership and sponsorship, and is part of several professional bodies in the project management discipline.
He has also co-authored the Managing Projects book alongside Professor Alec Waterworth and is co-editor of the next edition of the Association of Project Management’s Body of Knowledge.