Public Research Lecture (Webinar) | Dr Louise Tilbury

Louise Tilbury read Politics, Philosophy, and Economics at Oriel College, Oxford, before taking an MSc in Social Policy at the London School of Economics. She worked as a Project Manager for the Saigon Children’s Charity in Vietnam before joining the Civil Service, working for the Department for Education and Employment in London. As a Senior Policy Analyst at HM Treasury, she went on to lead the influential Leitch Review of Skills in 2006. Working as a Public Policy Consultant, Louise worked for Cornwall Development Company, including writing the economic case for Cornwall’s successful Regional Growth Fund bid. In 2012, Louise stepped down from her role as Governor of Arts University Plymouth (then Plymouth College of Art) to project-manage the opening of a city centre, 4–16 all-through school that places creativity in all subjects, and creative arts subjects in particular, at the very heart of the curriculum and of the wider learning experience. In 2013, Louise was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the University of the Arts, Plymouth. In 2015, Louise started teaching at the University of Exeter Business School, and in 2016 she was appointed a Practitioner Research Fellow with university-funded PhD studies into Board Dynamics and Gender. In 2022, Louise passed her viva with no corrections and published her first paper with supervisor Prof. Ruth Sealy in Corporate Governance: An International Review. Louise and Ruth’s second paper on Chairing and Behaviour won two prizes in 2023 at the European Academy of Management and the British Academy of Management. Louise currently teaches Business Ethics and Corporate Governance on the BBA at the University of Gibraltar.