Colin Coulson-Thomas: Public and Other Appointments

• Six years as Deputy Chairman of the London Electricity Consultative Council. Presented evidence to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and an appeal to the Electricity Council.
• Ten years on the Board of Moorfields Eye Hospital.
• Two terms on the Council for Professions Supplementary to Medicine (HM Privy Council representative).
• Nine years on the National Biological Standards Board.
• Five years on the Council of the Foundation for Science and Technology.
• Hooker Distinguished Visiting Professor at McMaster University, Canada, 1995.
• Four years as Corporate Affairs Adviser to the British Institute of Management.
• Member of the Council of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee for 13 years.
• Past Chairman of the Crossbencher parliamentary liaison programme and of the Focus Group.
• Four years as Professor of Direction and Leadership at the University of Lincoln
• Formerly the world’s first Professor of Corporate Transformation and the UK’s first Professor of Competitiveness at the University of Luton
• Formerly Dean of the Faculty of Management and Head of the Putteridge Bury campus at the University of Luton
• Formerly Director of Executive Education and Corporate Programmes, Lincoln Business School / University of Lincoln

Colin Coulson-Thomas: Current Roles

• Chairman, Bryok Systems Ltd (previously Senior Independent Director)
• Consultant and Chairman, Cotoco Ltd, Policy Publications Ltd and Adaptation Ltd.
• Visiting Professor, University of Bedfordshire.
• Member of the Board of Examiners of the Institute of Directors.
• Member of the Governance and Risk Management Committee of the ACCA.
• Chairman of the Panel of Judges for the international e-Business Innovations awards.
• Chair, Audit and Governance Committee, Peterborough PCT

Other corporate clients: have included Blue Arrow, Cable and Wireless, Granada Group, H J Heinz, IBM, 3com, Inchcape Group, Lotus Development, Manpower, McGraw-Hill, ODI, W H Smith, Severstal and Xerox /Rank Xerox.

Other government clients: have included the British Council, Cabinet Office/CCTA, Dept. of Employment, Passport Service, ONS, European Commission (DG lll & Xlll), Derby Royal Infirmary, L. B. of Havering, and Essex and Surrey C. C.

Educational/professional/representative clients: have included Universities of Exeter and Surrey; UMIST/University of Manchester, Institute of Directors, BIM/Institute of Management, CBI, Inst. of Personnel Management, CCA, ITD and Assn. of Project Managers.