Professor James Kirkbride, Vice-Rector and Director at the London School of Business and Finance. Previously Dean of Business Law at Liverpool John Moores University.

James has published over 50 papers and has written and contributed to 8 books on Business and Law issues. He has held personal Chairs and awarded a Jean Monnet Chair in European Studies by the Commission. His expertise is reflected in his appointment to the Department of Trade and Industry’s “Ideas Factory”’; his appointment as the first chair of the Standard’s Committee West Yorkshire; and his appointment to professional body boards such as the Institute of Directors’ Board and the Bar Council Education Committee (Northern Circuit), and to the Senior Executive Roundtable at the EFQM. He was a member of Innovation and Business Excellence Awards Jury; the Steering Group for the UK Northern Way Centres of Excellence Initiative; and International Advisory Committee of leading Business Schools, including NIMBAS. He is also a member of the Xi’an Arbitration Panel in China and was recently appointed as an EU expert under the EU-China International Commercial Arbitration Project. His EU Report on ODR was published in late 2009.

He currently holds a visiting chair at the University of Shanghai.