Ian Waitt

Dr Ian Waitt is a businessman of over three decades' experience. During 17 years in education, he taught at secondary school, undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Both as an international consultant and in business, he has worked in UK, Canada, USA, Russia, Korea, and many European, African, and Asian countries. His management experience embraces all sectors: private, public and voluntary. His business portfolio includes import-export trade, conference and event devising and organising, education management, and politico-economic consultancy. Writer of a major business biography, he has co-edited and contributed to a book on simulation in managment education, written on technical education, published learned and press articles, and has even co-authored a history book for children. Award winning writer, editor and main author of "College Administration", described by "The Guardian" in 1980 as "the college bible", the definitive guide to UK public sector further and higher education; it was commended by the UK Library Association as a reference book of the year, tying with the "Oxford Companion to Law". He now chairs a grain company, a consultancy, and a business development institute. Distilling a lifetime's experience, his new, authoritative, activist, text and reference work is "Footsteps and Foundations of Management: History, Education Management and Management Education".