Catapult Conference - London 2007 Speakers
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 Sir Geoffrey OwenAuthor of "WHERE ARE THE BIG GORILLAS?" Sir Geoffrey Owen is Senior Fellow at the Department of Management, London School of Economics, where he conducts teaching and research in the field of corporate strategy, corporate governance and international competition. Sir Geoffrey was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied classics. After two years' national service in the Royal Air Force, he joined the Financial Times as a feature writer in 1958. He held several posts on that paper, including those of Industrial Correspondent, Industrial Editor, and US Correspondent based in New York. He was deputy editor of the Financial Times from 1973 to 1980 and editor from 1981 to 1990. Between 1968 and 1973 Sir Geoffrey left journalism, serving first as an executive in the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation and then as personnel director in the overseas division of British Leyland Motor Corporation. He is the author of two books - "Industry in the USA" (Penguin 1967), and "From Empire to Europe: the decline and revival of British industry since the second world war" (HarperCollins 1999). His published papers include: "Where are the big gorillas? High technology entrepreneurship in the UK and the role of public policy", Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, December 2004. Sir Geoffrey was a non-executive director of Laird Group plc from 2001 to the end of 2006.
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