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CV—Thomas Ahrens
ahrens101@gmail.com, +971 50 5772927, PO Box 68224, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates
Appointments
Professor of Accounting and Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre,
United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), from September 2010
Professor of Accounting, Warwick Business School (WBS), University of Warwick,
January 2005-August 2010
Associate Dean (MBA), WBS, August 2006-July 2009
Senior Lecturer in Accounting, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), October 2002-December 2004
Lecturer in Accounting, LSE, September 1996-September 2002
Lecturer in Accounting, University of Southampton, July 1995-August 1996
Assistant Auditor, Arthur Andersen, Stuttgart, Germany, December 1991-May 1992
Education
PhD Accounting and Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science
(LSE), 1996, Contrasting Involvements: An Ethnographic Study of Management
Accounting Practices in Britain and Germany
MSc Accounting and Finance, LSE, 1991
BA (Hons) European Business Administration and Dipl-Betriebswirt (FH), Middlesex
Polytechnic/London and FH Reutlingen/Germany (joint degree programme), 1990
Editorial Boards
Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research since 2012 (current term runs until 2017),
Associate Editor, Contemporary Accounting Research 2010-2011
Co-editor of the Journal of Management and Governance since 2006
Member of the Editorial Boards of Accounting, Organizations and Society since 2005,
the European Accounting Review 2003-2011, Management Accounting Research
since 2007, and Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management since 2014
Research
My research has focused on the uses of financial information for organisational
control and corporate governance. Through field research in various private and
public sector organisations I have studied specific ways of integrating financial
control into management and governance practices. My publications have addressed
issues of
The links between financial control and accountability, organisational culture,
and strategy
Governance
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Anglo-German comparisons of management accounting and control
Interpretive and qualitative field research methodologies in accounting and
governance
Practice theory
See http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=r4ZKlM0AAAAJ for citations of
my work.
UAEU Corporate Governance Centre
I founded this centre when I came to the UAE in 2010 and have been directing it
since. The centre is dedicated to the study of governance practices that are relevant to
the UAE. Among its research projects have been governance-related research into the
Abu Dhabi health system, and the UAE higher education system, the roles of directors
of UAE companies, innovation in UAE start-up companies, and organisational
excellence awards in government. In 2011 Memoranda of Understanding with the
Abu Dhabi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the UAE Securities and
Commodities Authority were signed as frameworks for agreeing joint research.
Working Papers
T. Ahrens, Strategies of action that underpin organisational institutions: A field study
of influential management control and quality management practices
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Using management control theory to understand recent public
sector corporate governance changes: localism, the public interest, and enabling
control in an English local authority
T. Ahrens, B. Catasus and G. Johed, Interactional and contributory accounting
expertise on the board of directors
T. Ahrens, C. S. Chapman and R. Khalifa, A conceptual framework for researching
corporate governance practices
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, NCC and the grassroots: Accountability and accounting under
austerity
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Endogenous institutional change through practice memories
of accounting: Medium term austerity budgeting in an English local authority
T. Ahrens, F. Fabel and R. Khalifa, Legitimacy, legality, and accountability in cross-
border audits of development NGOs
T. Ahrens and G. Johed, Board work as organized hypocrisy: decoupling the audit
committee and IFRS from the board
T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Are university students making rational choices that can
strengthen the knowledge economy? A field study of the UAE
T. Ahrens and L. Ferry, Political arenas in public sector performance management: A
hermeneutics of benchmarking in an English local authority in the wake of the 2011
Localism Act
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Peer Reviewed Journals
R. Zacca, M. Dayan and T. Ahrens, Impact of Network Capability on Small
Business Performance, Management Decision (in press)
T. Ahrens, Tracing the evolution of the Dubai Government Excellence Program,
Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences (2014) 30(1) pp. 2-15
T. Ahrens, Assembling the Dubai Government Excellence Program—A motivational
approach to improving public service governance in a monarchical context,
International Journal of Public Sector Management (2013) 26(7) pp. 576-592 (winner
of the 2012 Tawazun Best Paper Award at the Summer Research Presentation,
College of Business and Economics, UAEU)
T. Ahrens and R. Khalifa, Researching the lived experience of corporate governance,
Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management (2013) 10(1) pp. 4-30
T. Ahrens, I. Filatotchev, and S. Thomsen, The research frontier in corporate
governance, Journal of Management and Governance (2011) 15(3) pp. 311-325
T. Ahrens, A. Becker, J. Burns, C. S. Chapman, M. Granlund, M. Habersam, A.
Hansen, R. Khalifa, T. Malmi, A. Mennicken, A. Mikes, F. Panozzo, M. Piber, P.
Quattrone and T. Scheytt, The future of interpretive accounting research: a
polyphonic debate, Critical Perspectives on Accounting (2008) 19(6) pp. 840-866
T. Ahrens, Overcoming the subjective-objective divide in interpretive management
accounting research, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2008) 33(2-3) pp. 292-
297
T. Ahrens, The hidden ethics of corporate governance and the practical uses of
corporate governance codes: A commentary on Bhimani, Journal of Management and
Governance (2008) 12(2) pp. 149-152
T. Ahrens and M. Mollona, Organisational control as cultural practice—a shop floor
ethnography of a Sheffield steel mill, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2007)
32(4-5) pp. 305-331
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Management accounting as practice, Accounting,
Organizations and Society (2007) 32(1-2) pp. 1-27
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Doing qualitative field studies: positioning data to
contribute to theory, Accounting, Organizations and Society (2006) 31(8) pp. 819-841
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Accounting for flexibility and efficiency: A field study
of management control systems in a restaurant chain, Contemporary Accounting
Research (2004) 21(2) pp. 271-301 (republished in the Contemporary Accounting
Research Virtual Issue on Field Research, 2012)
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The structuration of legitimate performance measures
and management: Day-to-day contests of accountability in a U.K. restaurant chain,
Management Accounting Research (2002) 13(2) pp. 1-21 (runner-up for the David
Solomons Prize for best paper)
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Occupational identity of management accountants in
Britain and Germany, European Accounting Review (2000) 9(4) pp. 477-498
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T. Ahrens and J. Dent, Accounting and organizations: Realising the richness of field
research, Journal of Management Accounting Research (1998) 10 pp. 1-39
T. Ahrens, Talking accounting: An ethnography of management knowledge in British
and German brewers, Accounting, Organizations and Society (1997) 22(7) pp. 617-
637
T. Ahrens, Strategic interventions of management accountants: Everyday practice of
British and German brewers, European Accounting Review (1997) 6(4), pp. 557-588
T. Ahrens, Styles of Accountability, Accounting, Organizations and Society (1996)
21(2/3) pp. 139-173
Books
T. Ahrens, Contrasting Involvements: A Study of Management Accounting Practices
in Britain and Germany, monograph series “Management, Organisation and Society”,
Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishing (1999), 152 pages
Book Chapters
T. Ahrens, Everyday accounting practices and intentionality, in C. S. Chapman, D. J.
Cooper and P. B. Miller (eds.) Accounting, Organizations, and Institutions, Oxford:
Oxford University Press (2009), chapter 2, pp. 30-47
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Loosely coupled performance measurement systems
[revised version], in A. D. Neely (ed.), Business Performance Measurement— Unifying Theory and Integrating Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(2nd ed., 2007), pp. 477-491
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Doing qualitative field studies, in C. S. Chapman, A.
G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of management accounting
research, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing (2007), volume 1, chapter 3, pp. 99-112 (The
Handbook won the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting
Association 2008 Notable Contribution to Management Accounting Literature
Award.)
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Theorizing practice in management accounting
research, in C. S. Chapman, A. G. Hopwood and M. D. Shields (eds.), Handbook of
management accounting research, Oxford: Elsevier Publishing (2007), volume 1,
chapter 11, pp. 299-318
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, New measures in performance management, in A.
Bhimani (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Management Accounting, Oxford: Oxford
University Press (2006), chapter 1, pp. 1-19
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Accounting and the crafting of strategy: a practice-
based view, in C. S. Chapman (ed.), Controlling Strategy: Management, Accounting,
and Performance Measurement, Oxford: Oxford University Press (2005) chapter 6,
pp. 106-124
T. Ahrens, Refining research questions in the course of negotiating access for
fieldwork, in C. G. Humphrey and W. Lee (eds.) Real Life Guide to Accounting
Research, Oxford: Elsevier (2004) chapter 17, pp. 295-307
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T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Loosely coupled performance measurement systems,
in A. D. Neely (ed.), Business Performance Measurement—Theory and Practice,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2002) pp. 244-258
T. Ahrens, Introducing the commercial manager: Management accounting support for
the sales function, case study with teaching note, in T. Groot & K. Lukka (eds.),
Cases in Management Accounting: Current practices in European companies, Essex:
Pearson Education (2000) pp. 147-159
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Sustaining antagonistic harmony: Food margin
management in a UK restaurant chain, in A. D. Neely & D. B. Waggoner (eds.),
Performance Measurement—Theory and Practice, vol. 1, Cambridge: Centre for
Business Performance (1998) pp. 1-6
T. Ahrens, Financial and operational modes of accountability, in: R. Munro & J.
Mouritsen (eds.), Accountability: Power, Ethos and the Technologies of Managing,
London: International Thomson Business Press (1996) pp. 149-163
Book Reviews
T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Making Political Science Matter’, by Sanford F. Schram
& Brian Caterino (eds.) (New York University Press, 2006), European Accounting
Review (2007) 16(2) pp. 460-463
T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Globalization, Management Control and Ideology’, by
Riad Ajami, C. Edward Arrington, Falconer Mitchell, and Hanne Nørreklit (editors)
(DJØF Publishing, 2005), European Accounting Review (2006) 15(3) pp. 431-433
T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘The Ethnographic Imagination’, by Paul Willis (Polity
Press, 2000), British Journal of Sociology (2002) 53(3) p. 510
T. Ahrens, Book review of ‘Making Social Science Matter’, by Bent Flyvbjerg
(Cambridge University Press, 2001), European Accounting Review (2002) 11(3) pp.
633-638
Other Publications
T. Ahrens & C. S. Chapman, In defence of the double-blind review, EAA Newsletter
(2014) issue 2 pp. 13-14
T. Ahrens, Company directors’ knowledge of insider trading: a contextual analysis, A
report for the UAE Securities and Commodities Authority (2013)
T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Enabling Emiratis to Drive the Knowledge Economy
through Higher Education Governance: A Symbolic Boundaries Approach, A report
for the UAE Federal Demographic Council (2012)
T. Ahrens, Management Accounting Studies Guide for the External Programme,
University of London (2005)
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Organizational roles of management accountants, in:
C. Clubb (ed.), Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Management, vol. 1, Accounting, Oxford:
Blackwell (2nd edition, 2005) pp. 327-332
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Hereford Steak Houses: A case illustrating flexible
budgeting and variance analysis in a chain restaurant (with teaching note), in C. T.
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Horngren, A. Bhimani, S. M. Datar and G. Foster (eds.) Management and Cost
Accounting, Harlow: Prentice Hall Europe (3rd edition, 2004) pp. 633-635 & later
editions
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Thought piece: Management accounting in practice—
from business models to modelling the business, European Accounting Association
(EAA) Members Newswire (March 2004) issue 6, online publication available under:
http://www.eaa-online.org/members/letter.cfm
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, Repositioning financial control in a UK restaurant
chain, special issue of Management Research News (2002) 25(8/9/10) entitled
Organizing/Theorising: Developments in Organization Theory and Practice, pp. 15-17
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The role of management accountants in Britain and
Germany, Management Accounting (May 1999) pp. 42-43
T. Ahrens, “Intergalaktischer” Controllingansatz oder lieber Zahlen, die Verhalten
ändern, Controller Magazin (1997) 22(6) pp. 423-424
T. Ahrens, Management Accounting Studies Guide for the External Programme,
University of London (1997)
Grants
Z. Zakaria, T. Ahrens, S. Mamat, Governance and Control in Government Linked
Companies: Managing Multiple Accountabilities in Practice, Malaysian Ministry of
Education, September 2013-August 2015, $9,162
T. Ahrens, Company directors’ knowledge of insider trading: a contextual analysis,
Securities and Commodities Authority (UAE), March-August 2013
T. Ahrens and O. Alnuaimi, Enabling Emiratis to Drive the Knowledge Economy
through Higher Education Governance: A Symbolic Boundaries Approach, Federal
Demographic Council (UAE), October 2011-May 2012, awarded $66,667
T. Ahrens and R. Khalifa, Revising the objectives of corporate governance practices:
A field study of the governance roles of UAE boards of directors, UAEU Research
Competition evaluated by the National Research Foundation, September 2011-August
2014, awarded $202,670
R. Zacca, M. Dayan, and T. Ahrens, Drivers and enablers of innovative start-up
enterprises within the UAE, UAEU Research Competition evaluated by the National
Research Foundation, September 2011-August 2014, awarded c. $200,000
T. Ahrens, Tailoring quality assessments to specific government entities: An
application of the theory of hybrids in governance to the Abu Dhabi Award for
Excellence in Government Performance (ADAEP), College of Business and
Economics, UAEU, July 2011-June 2012, awarded 6 weeks salary
T. Ahrens, The governance of the UAE health system, Oasis Hospital Al Ain, 2011,
$2,725
T. Ahrens and D. Elmes, Centre for Global Energy, pump-priming grant, University
of Warwick Research Development Fund, August 2008-July 2009, awarded £19,341
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T. Ahrens, Integrative characteristics of performance measurement systems, The
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), London, September 2003-
January 2007, awarded £9,890
Joint organiser (with C. S. Chapman and F. Panozzo) of a series of 3 Euroconferences
(Palermo 1997, Cork 1998, Berlin 1999) under the European Commission’s Training
and Mobility for Researchers (TMR) Programme entitled Management Accounting in
Europe: Engaging Research and Practice. Awarded £50,000 under contract number
ERFMMACT970207
T. Ahrens and C. S. Chapman, The training of management accountants in Britain
and Germany, The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), London,
April-August 1998, awarded £1,400
T. Ahrens, Uses of management information in a chain restaurant, University of
Southampton Faculty Grant, January-August 1996, awarded £750
Honours & Awards
Keynote speaker, 4th Global Accounting & Organizational Change (GAOC)
Conference, UAE, November 2014
Invited plenary speaker, 2014 Annual Asia-Pacific Management Accounting
Association Conference, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, October
2014
Tawazun Best Paper Award at the Faculty of Business and Economics Summer
Research Presentation, UAEU, 2012
Guest Editor of Journal of Management and Governance, Number 3 / August 2011,
Special Issue: Emerging Issues in Management and Governance, edited by Thomas
Ahrens, Igor Filatotchev and Steen Thomsen
Visiting Professor, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, July-August
2011
Organiser and chairman of the symposium “Accounting and Corporate Governance:
The contribution of fieldwork”, 34th Annual Congress of the European Accounting
Association, Rome, Italy, April 2011
Invited plenary speaker, 7th Annual Global Management Accounting Research
Symposium (GMARS), Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, June 2010
Visiting Professor, Accounting Department, International Islamic University Malaysia
(IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, January 2010
Faculty member on the Emerging Scholars Colloquium of the 9th Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Accounting Conference (IPA), Innsbruck, Austria, July 2009
Invited plenary speaker, 23rd Kitan International Symposium on Manufacturing
Management, University of Nagoya, Japan, February 2009
Outstanding Warwick MBA Teacher Award for 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09
WBS Undergraduate Teaching Award 2007/08
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Panel discussant, Emerging Issues in Management and Governance, Journal of
Management and Governance Symposium at the annual meeting of the Accademia
Italiana Di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), Milano, Italy, October 2007
Invited Speaker, Management Accounting Workshop, University of Liverpool, UK,
May 2007
Invited Speaker, Doctoral Seminar, Ca’ Foscari University Venice, Italy, January
2007
Faculty member on the 3rd Doctoral Summer School in Management Accounting,
Jointly organized by the University of Siena, Manchester Business School and the
European Network for Research on Organizational and Accounting Change
(ENROAC), Siena, Italy, July 2006
Faculty member on the Emerging Scholars Colloquium of the 8th Interdisciplinary
Perspectives on Accounting Conference (IPA), Cardiff, UK, July 2006
Visiting Researcher, Örebro University, Sweden, November 2005
Invited plenary speaker, first joint workshop of the Management Control Association
(MCA) and the European Network for Research on Organisational and Accounting
Change (ENROAC), University of Antwerp, Belgium, April 2005
Invited research seminar, Monash University, Australia, July 2004
Invited Speaker, Seminar on Organisational Ethnography, Ca’ Foscari University
Venice, Italy, May 2004
Visiting Researcher, Kobe University, Japan, September 2003
Runner-up for the David Solomons Prize for best paper in Management Accounting
Research 2002
Visiting Professor, Finnish Academy for Graduate Studies in Management
Accounting, May 2002
Polakos and Alongi Visiting Scholar, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA,
January 2002
Doctoral Supervision
Alyazia Alkuwaiti, doctoral advisory committee member UAEU, The impact of the
board of directors and other governance mechanisms on the performance and risk of
UAE listed firms, 2014-
Suaniza Binti Mamat, first supervisor WBS, The impact of strategic alliances on
management control systems: a case study of a Malaysian company, 2008-2012
Zamzulaila Zakaria, first supervisor WBS, Accountability and cultural practices in a
Malaysian pharmaceutical company, 2007-2011
Laurence Ferry, first supervisor WBS, Performance measurement in local
government, 2006-2011 (part-time student)
Helen Rogers, second supervisor WBS, Transfer pricing and taxation, 2005-2010
(part-time student)
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Lectures and PhD Seminars
Fundamentals of Cost and Management Accounting, BSc second year core course,
UAEU, 2013-
Cost and Managerial Accounting, BSc third year core course, UAEU, 2011-
Advanced Management Accounting, BSc final year option, UAEU, 2010-2011, 2013-
Philosophy of Social Research, DBA core course, UAEU, 2011-2013
Qualitative Research Methods, DBA core course, UAEU, 2011-2014
Business Research, MBA elective, 2012-2014
Accounting for Senior Managers, MBA core course, UAEU, 2011
Methodology & Methods of Research, MBA Project & Dissertation Workshop, WBS,
2007
Management Accounting, MBA elective, WBS, 2006-2009
Accounting and Financial Management, MBA core module, WBS, 2006
Cost Management Systems, 3rd year BSc elective, WBS, 2005-2009
Management Accounting and Control, MSc elective, LSE, 2000-2004, 2006
Advanced Managerial Accounting (5 week module on performance measurement and
organisation), 3rd year BSc elective, LSE, 1997-2003
Elements of Accounting and Finance, 1st year BSc core module, LSE (650 students
registered) 1999-2005
Interpretive case study research in management accounting, 3 day doctoral seminar,
The Finnish Academy for Graduate Studies in Management Accounting, May 2002
Financial Reporting, MBA, City University Business School, March-May 2000
Financial Reporting and Management, MSc elective, LSE 1996-1999
Advanced Accounting , Chevening Scholarship Course for Young Indian Bankers,
LSE Continuing Education Unit, May/June 1997
Management Accounting I, MSc core module, University of Southampton, 1995-
January 1997
Management Information II, 2nd year BSc module, University of Southampton, 1995-
1996
Accounting and Finance 1, 1st year undergraduate, Mikkeli Polytechnic, Finland,
March 1996
Professional Service
Editorial boards (see above)
Occasional reviewer for Abacus; Accounting, Audit & Accountability Journal;
Behavioral Research in Accounting; Critical Perspectives on Accounting; Human
Relations; Journal of Accounting and Public Policy; Journal of Economic and
Administrative Sciences; Journal of Management Accounting Research; Organization
Studies; Qualitative Research in Accounting and Management; and for research
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proposals and publications of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and
Wales (ICAEW) and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
Member of the Steering Committee of the Asia Pacific Management Accounting
Association, since 2013
Member of the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Accounting,
Governance and Sustainability (CAGS) at the University of South Australia, since
2011
Member of the Standing Scientific Committee for the 32nd, 33rd, and 34th Annual
Congresses of the European Accounting Association in Turku (2009), Istanbul (2010),
and Rome (2011) with responsibility for research presentations in Accounting
Education, Accounting History, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Public Sector
and Not-for-profit Accounting, Social and Environmental Accounting, and Taxation
and Accounting
Organised and chaired a symposium entitled “Accounting and Corporate Governance:
The contribution of fieldwork” at the European Accounting Association Conference,
Rome, April 2011
Grant reviewer for the UAE’s National Research Foundation, 2009
Member of the Scientific Committee for the 29th and 30th Annual Congress of the
European Accounting Association, Dublin (2006) and Lisbon (2007)
Co-chair (with A. Hansen and M. Messner) of the accounting track at the European
Academy of Management conference, Paris, May 2007
Organised and chaired a one-day workshop on field research in accounting with 24
national and international participants at WBS, July 2006
External Examiner for the MBA Programme, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
2006-2009
Advisor to the UK National Audit Office on financial reporting and cost control at the
BBC, November 2005
External Examiner for Accounting, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, 2004-2008
Member of the Programme Development Group of the European Institute for
Advanced Studies in Management, Brussels (EIASM), 1999-2003
Co-chair (with C. S. Chapman and F. Panozzo) of a series of 3 Euroconferences
(Palermo 1997, Cork 1998, Berlin 1999) entitled Management Accounting in Europe:
Engaging Research and Practice for young accounting scholars.
Administration—UAEU
Director of the UAEU Corporate Governance Centre, since 2010
Member of the University Promotion Advisory Group, since 2011
Member of the Faculty Panel to interview the new Dean, May 2014
Member of the Faculty Affairs Committee of the College of Business and Economics,
since 2013
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Member of the DBA Admissions Committee of the College of Business and
Economics, since 2010
Member of the DBA Steering Committee of the College of Business and Economics,
since 2012
Member of the Strategic Planning Committee of the College of Business and
Economics, since 2010
Chairman of the Professional Cooperation and Faculty Affairs Committee of the
Department of Accounting, since 2013
Member of the Promotions Committee of the Department of Accounting, since 2013
Member of the Curriculum Development and Maintenance Committee of the
Department of Accounting, since 2013
Student advisor for undergraduate students, since 2013
Member of the Promotions Committee of the College of Business and Economics,
2010-2013
Chairman of the Promotions Committee of the Department of Accounting, 2010-2012
Member of the Research Committee of the Department of Accounting, 2010-2012
Member of the Professional Cooperation and Faculty Affairs Committee of the
Department of Accounting, 2010-2012
Coordinator for the suite of undergraduate management accounting courses, 2011-
2012
Administration—WBS
Associate Dean (MBA), 2006-2009, with responsibility for all postgraduate general
management programmes, total revenue c. £10 million in 2008/09, with over 40
administrators (FTE), made up of full-time MBA, executive MBA, distance learning
MBA, IBM corporate in-house MBA, Global Energy MBA, MSc Management.
Major achievements:
i. Designed and launched worldwide first general management MBA for
the energy industry (The Warwick Global Energy MBA)
ii. Implemented teacher training programme and significantly improved
teaching quality
iii. Championed use of blended learning and prepared launch of blended
learning MSc Management
iv. Enhanced MBA rankings
Member of the Social Studies Faculty Board, 2007
Member of the WBS Academic Policy Committee, 2006-2009
Member of the WBS International Strategy Group, 2006-2008
Member of the WBS Research Committee, 2005-2007
Member of the WBS Doctoral Programme Committee, 2006
Teaching planning for the Accounting Group, 2005/06
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Professional exemptions liaison with CIMA, 2005
Convenor of the Accounting Research Meetings, 2005-2007
Administration—LSE
Chairman of the Sub-board of Examiners BSc Accounting and Finance, 1999-2004
Chairman of the Sub-board of Examiners Diploma Accounting and Finance, 1999-
2002
Chairman of the BSc Review Panel of the Department of Accounting and Finance,
2001-2004
Member of the MSc Review Panel of the Department of Accounting and Finance,
2001/02
Member of the LSE Research Committee, 1998-2001
Undergraduate admissions tutor for the Department of Accounting and Finance, 1997-
1999
Undergraduate admissions selector for the Department of Accounting and Finance,
1996-1999
Chief Examiner for management accounting on the LSE External Degree Programme,
1998/99
Thomas Ahrens, June 2014
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