Jonathan Michie - Academic Career

Academic Career

Michie started his academic career in 1973 at United World College of the Atlantic, gaining his International Baccalaureate. He then gained a scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later a Doctorate, after having obtained an MSc in Economics (with Distinction) from Queen Mary, University of London. In 1983 he moved to the Economics Department of the Trades Union Congress and then in 1988 to Brussels as an Expert to the European Commission, before becoming an academic at the University of Cambridge in 1990. After seven years at Cambridge - first in the Economics Faculty and then the Judge Business School - he took up the Sainsbury Chair of Management at the University of London, where he was Head of the School of Management & Organizational Psychology at Birkbeck College.

In 2004, he became a Professor of Management at the University of Birmingham where he was Director of the Birmingham Business School and a member of the University Council. He was also a Non-Executive Director of the Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust.

In December 2007, he was appointed to the joint positions of Director of the Department for Continuing Education and President of Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

Michie authored a recent report which called for Northern Rock to be remutualised, and heads the Commission for Ownership set up at Oxford University.