Ian Gow (2)

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Professor Ian Gow was appointed Principal of the Sino-British College USST Shanghai on 1/1/09. He was until recently Executive Dean of Bristol Business School and Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West of England. From 2003 to 2007 he was Provost (Executive President) and CEO of the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China China's first independent foreign university campus. He is a Professor of Asian Business and former Vice-President (Asia) of the University of Nottingham. Professor Gow was awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List (2007) for his services to British Higher Education in China.

He was Dean of the Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) (1998-2003). He is a former Deputy Principal, University of Stirling and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield and was Head of Management Studies at both these institutions concurrently with Director of the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies (Stirling) and Chairman of the School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield). Professor Gow holds a PhD in Japanese Studies and has published in both Japanese and English on Japanese Business and Japanese Defence Policy. He has strongly supported the development of Chinese Studies and Sino-Chinese relations and was responsible for the establishment of the Centre of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Sheffield and was the founding Director of the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has also has been a visiting professor at Tokyo and Saitama universities in Japan and a member of the UK –Japan 21 Group. Professor Gow served as a member of the UK Government's Office of Science and Technology's Asia-Pacific Science and Technology Committee and was also a member of the Steering Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council's Pacific Asia Project. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society Arts and Commerce and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Linguists.