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Professor Lynette Ryals OBE

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Professor Lynette Ryals OBE smiling up to camera, sitting in modern, professional and open-space settingLynette is Vice Chancellor at the University of Buckingham.  Before that she was a Deputy Vice Chancellor at Cranfield University and Dean of Cranfield School of Management.

Lynette’s academic background is in sales and customer management. She is an alumna of Oxford University (BA and MA) and went on to take an MBA in Buckingham with International Management Centres (Europe) and a PhD from Cranfield University.

She is a Fellow of the Society of Investment Professionals, a Fellow of the Chartered institute of Logistics and a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Lynette was awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours 2019 for services to higher education.  She is a Non-Executive Director of East West Rail and a Trustee of The Stables, Milton Keynes, getting involved in their concerts, events, music education and helping out at the biennial International Festival. She is an enthusiast for live music of all kinds and attends as many gigs and concerts as she can.

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