Kathryn Vagneur

Kathryn Vagneur BSc MSc PhD CPA

Dr Kathryn Vagneur manages a private investment portfolio in London. Previously, she was a director with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

She is a past-president of the UK Society of CPAs and a member of the Management Control Association and the business governance and ethics panel of the London Society of Chartered Accountants. She has experience of designing and managing start-up businesses and of managing in established companies. She has advised major international companies and taught executive development courses on three continents.

Her PhD research, undertaken at London Business School, explored management and control process factors that differentiated companies with good long-term performance from the rest. One of those factors – the way performance is measured and how those measures are used – was the focus of her thesis. Since then, she has continued to research board-level corporate governance issues.

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Madhu Purwar
India and UAE

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According to her, the programme is very demanding and challenging; it carries weight in business and has credibility with employers. "I got a promotion the day I left Dubai for the graduation. The company told me that the programme had made a positive contribution to my job and that I fully deserved to get what I was aiming for. What helps, of course, is that there was tangible evidence of the programme's contribution to my job and my ability to do it better. This must be pleasing for any employer - when they see that the commitment you are making to your studies has a direct benefit to them. It's a win-win situation."...more