He obtained his doctorate in strategic management at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and his undergraduate degree in physics at Imperial College, University of London. He is a chartered accountant, having worked for KPMG in London, Australia, and New Zealand, and has corporate finance and strategy experience within Barclays plc and KPMG Corporate Finance, and has consulted for Unilever. He has held several college lecturerships within the University of Oxford and was appointed as a visiting scholar in the Management Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA, and a visiting professor at Sun Yat-Sen University, People's Republic of China. He has been short listed for the Best Paper Prizes at the 2005, 2006, and 2008 Strategic Management Society conferences. Further details may be found at http://www.duncanrobertson.com/.