Ken Simmonds

Professor Ken Simmonds focuses his research on global strategy, international business management, strategic marketing, and strategic management accounting.

He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and a Fellow of the Academy of Marketing.

Professor Simmonds established marketing at Cranfield School of Management and held the first Chair of Marketing at Manchester Business School (where he was Geigy Professor of Marketing). He has also been Ford Foundation Professor at the University of Chicago and Professorial Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford.

He has served on many corporate boards and advisory panels and undertaken numerous top-level consulting projects for large multinationals including IBM. He has devised creative strategies for a wide variety of firms of all sizes, industries and services.