Peter Williamson

Biography

Peter Williamson is Professor of International Management at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and Fellow and Director of Studies in Management, Jesus College. Professor Williamson has wide experience in research, consulting and executive education as well as serving as a non-executive director and chairman of both publicly listed companies and new ventures in industries as diverse as whisky, textiles, hedge fund management and software. He has been working with Chinese companies for over 35 years. He serves on the editorial boards of European Management Journal, Business Strategy Review, and Academy of Management Learning and Education. His research interests include: Globalisation and its implications for corporate strategy; strategies for success in China and the internationalisation of Chinese companies and their global impact, mergers and acquisition; business ecosystems and the management of networks of strategic alliances; strategies for a carbon-constrained world. He is the author over nine books and over 60 journal articles and a winner of the Sloan-PwC Award honouring those articles that have contributed most to the enhancement of management practice.