Professor Stephen Watson

Stephen is a Life Fellow of the College, and a former KPMG professor of Management Studies.  He was the founding Director of the Cambridge Judge Business School.

Biography

Stephen was born in North London, and went to University College School in Hampstead from 1953 to 1961.  He studied Mathematics at Emmanuel from 1961 to 1968, getting the BA degree in 1964 and the PhD degree in 1968.  After the PhD Stephen became a Research Fellow at Emmanuel from 1968 to 1971, and was elected an Official Fellow in 1971 on taking up the position of lecturer in Operational Research and Statistics in the Engineering Department at Cambridge.  He held several positions at Emmanuel in his time as a Research and Official Fellow: Recorder of the Governing Body 1968–1970; Praelector 1969–1970; Tutor 1973–1984; Financial Tutor 1974–1977; Admissions Tutor in Science 1978– 1984.

In 1986 Stephen became the KPMG Professor of Management Studies and in 1990 he was also appointed the first Director of the Cambridge Judge Business School.  In1994 he left Cambridge to become the Dean of Lancaster University Management School, and in 2001 moved on again to become the Principal of Henley Management College.  He retired from this position in 2004 and moved back to Cambridge as a Life Fellow of Emmanuel.  In his retirement he has served the College as its nominated governor for King Edward VII School in King’s Lynn, as Praelector once more, and by returning to the supervision of undergraduate students in the Mathematical Tripos.

His main leisure activity is singing, as those who know him will know from his habit of singing in public places (which some find engaging, and others find irritating, but all find eccentric).