Professor Emeritus of Strategic Management & Management Education
Singapore Management University
Howard Thomas is a highly cited scholar, with fellowship awards from the U.S. Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of Social Sciences, and the Institute of Directors. He is a Senior Advisor at EFMD Global and a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Strategic Management and Management Education at Singapore Management University ( SMU). He was also awarded the Richard Whipp Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Academy of Management in 2013, and the Strategic Leadership Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB) in 2014.
He is a companion of the Association of Business Schools in the UK, and former chair of the board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), AACSB, the Association of Business Schools (ABS), and the Global Foundation of Management Education (GFME). He is also an honorary life member and a board member of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). He served as president of the Strategic Management Society and has held visiting and permanent academic posts at the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), the London Business School, Boston University Questrom School of Business, MIT’s Sloan School of Management, the Kellogg School of Management Northwestern, the European Institute for the Advanced Studies in Management Brussels, HEC Montreal and the University of British Columbia in Canada. He has had Deanships / Senior Administrative positions at London Business School, AGSM, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Warwick Business School, and Singapore Management University. He is also the recipient of several honorary degrees.