Cardiff Business School

Cardiff Business School is a Business school in Cardiff, Wales. Part of Cardiff University, it was created in its current form in 1987 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. Cardiff Business School currently serves 2,500 students a year, 700 of which are postgraduate students. The School's research programme is ESRC recognised and has 140 PhD students currently studying within the School. Its research informs organisations such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the United Nations, the Treasury, the Department for Trade and Industry and the Department for Communities and Local Government and working on consultation projects for blue-chip, global firms.

Some notable staff include New Keynesian Economist Professor Huw Dixon, Informaticist Professor Paul Beynon-Davies, and influential neoclassical economist Patrick Minford

Notable alumni

• David Blanchflower, Academic and former member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England.
• Spencer Dale, Chief Economist at the Bank of England.
• Sue Owen, Director General Strategy, Department of Work and Pensions.
• David Smith, Economics Editor of The Sunday Times and author.

Deans of the Business School.

• 1985-2005 Roger Mansfield
• 2005-2010 Robert McNabb
• 2010-2012 George Boyne
• 2012- Martin Kitchener.