Structure
The Academy is run by a Council of 21 members, with Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS as its current Chair, and Professor Sir Howard Newby AcSS, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Liverpool, as its current President. Council members are elected by the Academy’s College of Academicians and College of Learned Societies.
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