Professor Simon Collinson (FRSA, FAcSS) is a Tsingshan Chair Professor at the Tsingshan Institute for Advanced Business Studies (TIABS) in the ZJU School of Management.

Prof. Simon Collinson has a B.A. Hons. from the University of Leeds (UK), an M.A. from the University of Florida (USA), and a DPhil. from the University of Sussex (SPRU, UK). He has held visiting positions at Hitotsubashi University (Japan), Indiana University (USA) and the AGSM, Sydney (Australia) and faculty positions at the Universities of Edinburgh, Reading (Henley) and Warwick, where he was Deputy Dean of the Warwick Business School. He joined the University of Birmingham in 2012 as Dean of the Birmingham Business School and Professor of International Business and Innovation. He then took on the joint roles of Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Founding Director of the City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI) from 2016 to 2024 and joined ZJU in 2024. He is an Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham and an Associate of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University.

Professor Collinson has been awarded over £15 million (CNY 135 million) of research funding and published more than 80 papers in leading international journals, including Research Policy, Regional Studies, JIBS, Business History and Organisation Studies. His research has also featured in the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio 4, and the New Statesman. Simon has taught at the MBA and Executive levels at Henley (Reading), WBS (Warwick) and Judge (Cambridge) Business Schools and has consulting experience with a wide range of multinational firms. He is also lead author of the foremost FT/Pearson International Business textbook (9^th Edition, 2024).

Following two appointments as a Member of the Council of the UK ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council), which oversees the government programme of national funding across all of the social sciences (2011 – 2018), Simon was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS). For his long-term contribution to academic leadership and impact he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts (RSA), a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (C-ABS) (of which he was Chair, 2015-2018) and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management (BAM).

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