Geoff Southern is Director of MSc Programmes in Management at the University of Glasgow. An engineer by training he combined study with work in the electrical construction and machine tool industries before going on to complete a PhD in shipbuilding. Following a period in the UK national ship research institution, he entered academia and has researched and taught at Newcastle and Hull Universities before joining the University of Glasgow to teach Operations Management in the Business School. At Glasgow he was Director of the MBA before being appointed to his present post as Director of the MSc in Management. Under his direction the programme has grown from 28 to about 200 students in about four years, and the number of specialist streams has increased from two to eight. He now concentrates on innovative teaching and programme design to satisfy the ever-increasing demands of international management students.
