Learn more about the Cambridge Judge Business School Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre team.
Dr Jenny Chu
Academic Co-Director, Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre
Associate Professor, Cambridge Judge Business School
Dr Jenny Chu is an Associate Professor at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She is the Academic Co-Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at the School. Her main research interests include earnings quality, capital market reactions to financial reporting, as well as management incentives and corporate governance. She is also passionate about research on how gender and diversity issues are linked to corporate governance and firm performance. Her research has been published in top academic journals such as Management Science, as well as covered by the popular press such as the Financial Times, the New York Times, Reuters, The Times (UK), and the Wall Street Journal.
Jenny combines teaching and research with a background in investment banking and portfolio management. She worked on corporate finance and M&A transactions for technology companies at Credit Suisse in Silicon Valley. She later transitioned into a portfolio management role at the hedge fund division of Barclays Global Investors (now Blackrock). Jenny holds MBA and PhD degrees from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.
Professor Feryal Erhun
Academic Co-Director, Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre
Professor of Operations & Technology Management, Cambridge Judge Business School
Professor Feryal Erhun is the Professor of Operations & Technology Management at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. She is the Academic Co-Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at the School and a Co-Director of the Cambridge Centre for Health Leadership & Enterprise (with a focus on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in Healthcare).
Feryal’s research interests include strategic interactions between stakeholders in supply chains, socially responsible operations, and healthcare operations. She is a strong proponent of practice-based research. Through collaborations with Intel Corporation, Cisco, Stanford University Medical Center, Public Health England and others, she has been able to combine her academic interests with stakeholders’ needs to deliver insights for both communities.
Feryal is an editorial board member of Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. She is a board member of the Production and Operations Management Society, and she has served as the President-elect (2020-2021) and the President (2021-2022) of the Manufacturing and Service Operations Management Society. During her presidency, she focused on increasing the transparency of academic institutions on EDI policies.
Tracey Horn
Executive Director, Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre
Director of Corporate Communications & Marketing, Cambridge Judge Business School
Tracey works with the Directors executive team, staff and faculty to oversee the alignment of branding, communications, marketing, public relations and media relations efforts across Cambridge Judge Business School and develops the strategy for positioning Cambridge Judge as a leading global business school. She is the Executive Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre at the Business School. She is passionate about improving gender balance through dialogue and action. She is also a member the European Foundation for Management steering committee.
Tracey’s background is in project management, engagement, and PR. In her early career she project managed the creation, successful operational running and marketing of museums including the Museum of Rugby and Twickenham Experience Tours at England Rugby, Twickenham. She developed engagement and partnership programmes as Director of Outreach for the NASA Specialised Center of Research and Training in the Research Triangle, North Carolina, USA, before joining Cambridge Judge Business School.
Tracey holds degrees from the University of St Andrews and the University of Aberdeen and has completed the Executive Education Cambridge General Management Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School.
The late Professor Sucheta Nadkarni
Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management, Director of the Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre, Head of the Strategy & International Business subject group and Professorial Fellow of Newnham College
Sucheta undertook pioneering work on gender diversity and was a champion to many, she is sorely missed.
We are proud of the WLC student interest group (SIG), which forms part of Cambridge Judge Business School’s Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre. The students take an active role in organising initiatives and events to foster gender diversity.
The SIG is organising workshops and speaker panels, throughout the year, collaborating with fellow students and companies to promote gender-balanced understanding.
WLC student interest group co-chairs:
Brianna Goodlin
MBA student 2021/22
Rachel Buchholtzer
MBA student 2021/22
Divya Dewan
MBA student 2021/22
Mary Rasita
MBA student 2021/22
The Cambridge Wo+Men in Leadership Centre Research Network is a group of University of Cambridge academics interested in research in gender and diversity. We collaborate with major corporations and not-for-profit organisations to produced impactful reports that address pertinent topics on gender diversity. We also organise a research seminar series that showcases the latest academic research on gender diversity.
Michael Barrett
Professor of Information Systems & Innovation Studies
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Marion Boisseau-Sierra
Assistant Professor in Accounting
PhD (Université Paris-Dauphine)
Jenny Chu
Associate Professor in Accounting
PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Jane Davies
Management Practice Professor in Operations Management
DBA (Boston University)
Mark de Rond
Professor of Organisational Ethnography
DPhil (University of Oxford)
Feryal Erhun
Professor of Operations & Technology Management
PhD (Carnegie Mellon University)
Allègre Hadida
Associate Professor in Strategy
PhD (Doctorat HEC, France)
Helen Haugh
Associate Professor in Community Enterprise
PhD (Aberdeen University)
Jennifer Howard-Grenville
Diageo Professor in Organisation Studies
PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yasemin Kor
Beckwith Professor of Management Studies
PhD (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Jochem Kroezen
Associate Professor in International Business
BA (HES Amsterdam), MPhil, PhD (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Dominique Lauga
Professor of Marketing
PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Shasha Lu
Associate Professor in Marketing
PhD (School of Management, Fudan University)
Stella Pachidi
Assistant Professor in Information Systems
PhD (VU University Amsterdam)
Lionel Paolella
Associate Professor in Strategy & Organisation
PhD (HEC Paris)
Jaideep Prabhu
Professor of Marketing
PhD (University of Southern California)
Thomas Roulet
Associate Professor in Organisation Theory
PhD (HEC Paris)
Karla Sayegh
Assistant Professor in Organisation Theory & Information Systems
PhD (McGill University)
Stefan Scholtes
Dennis Gillings Professor of Health Management
PhD (Karlsruhe University)
Neil Stott
Management Practice Professor of Social Innovation
DProf (Middlesex University)
Paul Tracey
Professor of Innovation & Organisation
PhD (Stirling University)
Patrizia Vecchi
Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour
PhD (Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis)
Patrons
Dame Carol Black
Chair of the British Library
Dame Sandra Dawson
KPMG Professor Emeritus of Management Studies
Fellow in Management
Fellows
Smaranda Gosa-Mensing
Global Head of People ClienTech, McKinsey
For more than 15 years, she has been advising and coaching senior professionals with a combination of deep psychological expertise as well as business and consulting experience. Before joining McKinsey, Smaranda worked in consumer/retail and as a specialised consultant for change management and coaching, advising senior executives on leadership issues.
She is a caring and passionate driver of initiatives and programs to help advance women leaders, e.g. as a Finalist Coach for the Cartier’s Women’s Initiative. Smaranda is a Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School, where she is helping to drive the Women’s Leadership Initiative. She is a psychologist and holds an Exec.MA in Coaching and Consulting for Change (CCC) from INSEAD.
As much as she cares about women leadership, she is also a passionate mother of three small children and enjoys spending her free time with her son and twin daughters.
Ruth Kennedy
Board Director, Brand Consultant and Philanthropist
Managing Director, Kennedy Dundas, Fellow of Cambridge Judge Business School
Ruth Kennedy is a brand consultant advising clients in the luxury goods and services sectors to meet their business development objectives. From 2006 to 2009 she served as head of Quinlan Private UK, a real estate and private equity group managing commercial and residential properties in Europe
including luxury hotels. Before that position, Ruth spent 16 years with David Linley and Co., the bespoke furniture and design business.
She began her career at S.G. Warburg as an investment banker. Ruth serves as Chairman on the board of The Resident, is a non-executive director on the boards of Daylesford Organic, Bamford, Value Retail (the owners of Bicester Village), and until 2019 on the public board of Belmond Hotels.
In 2009 Ruth founded the Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Institute of Child Health and is a Patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
Martha S. Wikstrom
Board Director of Fortnum & Mason, Johnstons of Elgin, Farrow & Ball, The Rug Company and Cath Kidston
Victoria Kimonides
Account Technology Strategy Director for Enterprise Partner Group at Microsoft Central and Eastern Europe
Supporters
The Wo+Men’s Leadership Centre is proud to work in collaboration with the following members of the wider Cambridge Judge Business School team to promote women and diversity within the business school, both in terms of human resources practices as well as fundraising activities.
