Dr. Angela Marqui is an academic and industry professional with experience in operations management, business education, and programme leadership. She currently holds the position of Associate Professor in Business Education and Director of Undergraduate Programmes at Birmingham Business School.
Angela joined Birmingham Business School in October 2019 as School Co-lead for Pedagogical Development in 2019. In this position she led seven programme design teams supporting the school to renovate its PGT offer. She also led MBA redesign project and was appointed MBA Director.
Prior to joining Birmingham, she spent 5 years at Aston Business School as teaching fellow in Service Operations, where she developed and was course director for the Foundation Programme in Business.
Shortly after completing her doctorate she joined University of Aberdeen as a research fellow, where she worked closely with local business aiming at improving their ability to reach wider markets by further developing their logistics capabilities with the use of digital technology. Alongside the research she also contributed to public engagement activities, like taking part in live chats with school children throughout the UK to talk about logistics and how products get to the shelfs of supermarkets.
Prior to her academic career she worked in industry for several years, which gives her the ability to communicate with businesses and to understand real world problems and what demonstrable results really means in that context. Her current position as Associate Professor in Business Education is an opportunity to focus on the foundations for excellent teaching and research informed graduate and executive education.