John McGee was educated at Manchester University in England, where he obtained a first class honours degree in economics, and at Stanford University in California, where he obtained his doctorate at the Graduate School of Business. From 1970 to 1985 he was at the London Business School, and was the founding Director of the Alumni Association in 1972. In 1982 he was the Founding Director of the Centre for Business Strategy. He then moved to Templeton College, Oxford. At Templeton he had major client management responsibilities, including Thames Water, Merck Inc., British Aerospace, and Andersen Consulting. He was closely involved in the planning of the Oxford MBA and became Dean of Templeton in 1992.
John joined Warwick Business School in 1994. He is currently Associate Dean for the MBA Programme and Professor of Strategic Management. He has been Head of the Marketing & Strategic Management Group, 1998-2001, and was Director of the Centre for Corporate Strategy & Change 1995-97.
Professional activities include membership of the HEFCE RAE panel on Business and Management Studies in 1996 and 2001. He is past-President of the (US-based) Strategic Management Society, having been President from 2000-2. He is an Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal, the strategy field’s leading academic journal.

Howard Thomas is currently Dean of Warwick Business School and Professor of Strategic Management. He was previously Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration and James F. Towey Distinguished Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, 1991-2000. Prior to this he held posts as Foundation Professor of Management at the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney, as Director of the Doctoral Programme at London Business School, and visiting and permanent posts at institutions such as the European Institute of Management in Brussels, the University of Southern California, the University of British Columbia, the Sloan School of Management, MIT, and Kellogg School, Northwestern University. Past President of the US Strategic Management Society, past Chair of the Board of the Graduate Management Admissions Council, member of Beta Gamma Signa, and Fellow of both the Academy of Management in the US and the UK and a board member of GFME, EFMD, ABS and State Farm Bank.

David Wilson is currently Professor of Strategy and Head of the Strategic Management Group at the University of Warwick Business School. He is the author of seven books and over fifty articles on innovation, strategic decision making, organisational change and strategy. He has been Director of MBA programmes at Warwick Business School (1991-93), Director of the Research Centre for Creativity, Strategy and Change (1998-2000) and was Visiting Professor at Uppsala University (Sweden) in 1985. He was Chairman of the British Academy of Management (1994–97) where he served for over ten years as an Executive member. He was Editor-in-Chief of the journal Organization Studies (1999–2003) where he had previously served on the Editorial Board and as Deputy Editor for over twenty years.
He is a Fellow of the Academy, elected in 1994 and is an Associate Fellow of the American Academy of Management. He is listed in Who’s Who in Social Science published by Edward Elgar, (2000), a list of leading international scholars in their field. He is currently Chairman of the scholarly society, the European Group for Organisation Studies.