Professor Amir Sharif,

Dean of Faculty

Biography

Amir M.Sharif isthe Dean of the Faculty of Management, Law and Social Sciences and Professor ofCircular Economy. Before joining the University of Bradford in 2017 asAssociate Dean (International and Accreditations), Amir held several senioracademic leadership positions including as Head of Brunel Business School, AssociateHead, Director of MBA Programmes and Director of Learning and Teaching (at BrunelUniversity London).

Prior to academia, Amir worked for severalyears as an industry practitioner in the financial services and professionalservices sector including for JPMorgan, UBS Investment Bank and KPMG, gaining deepexperience across technology, manufacturing and the public sector as a result. Starting his academic career as a researcher withinthe field of artificial intelligence, Amir rapidly developed his research intereststo apply his knowledge to addressing complex societal challenges in the areasof food security, circular economy, healthcare, operations / supply chain management,decision-making and humanitarian logistics. His specific area of interest is inthe application of systems thinking, causal and cognitive models to explorehuman decision-making behaviours in complex environments.

He has extensiveinternational teaching and research experience including across Europe, MENA /Gulf region, South Asia and the UK (having also taught at the University ofCambridge and Goldsmiths College (University of London)).

Amir is regularly called upon by research councilsworldwide to evaluate research funding proposals including from China,Czechoslovakia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Qatar, Serbia and Switzerland as wellas the EU and the UK (UKRI, British Council and British Academy). He is a member of several boards including theStronger Communities Partnership Board of Bradford Municipal DistrictCouncil, the Climate Change Committee of West Yorkshire and HarrogateHealth Care Partnership, the Higher Education advisory group for theEllen MacArthur Foundation, the Future Leaders Fellowships Programme panelfor UKRI, and is a member of the International Committee and the Directorsof Internationalisation group for the Chartered Association of BusinessSchools. He has also previously been a School Governor (Glyn School,Epsom, UK).

Amir is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts,the Chartered Institute for Logistics and Transport, the Institute ofLeadership and Management and is a Member of the Chartered Management Institute.He continues to support a number of charities aligned to education andhealthcare.

Teaching

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Publications

There are 14 publications involving or that are attributed to Professor Amir Sharif.