Contact Details

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Position

Third-party Educator

Affiliation

Dr Alan Cousens

Background

Alan is a graduate of Cambridge University and has a Doctorate in Metallurgy. Whilst developing his career he studied part-time at Cranfield University, gaining an MBA.

Alan has held a number of senior management roles in a variety of high technology manufacturing companies in the UK, all operating internationally. His most recent industrial roles were as Managing Director with Graseby plc, Smiths Industries plc, and Oxford Instruments plc. These companies manufactured medical devices which were sold across the world. After an extended career in industry Alan took a self financed sabbatical to study Economics for a masters degree with London University, Birkbeck College.

Since graduation Alan has developed a portfolio career, working as an Industrial Fellow with The Institute for Manufacturing, a Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield University, an Associate Lecturer with the Open University, a researcher with Cambridge Resolution Ltd, and consultancy projects in the third sector working with PrimeTimers.

At Cranfield Alan teaches and researches in the fields of Operations and Innovation Management. In his work with PrimeTimers he has carried out projects in the third sector in marketing, business planning, and mentoring senior managers.