Kai Peters is Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Business & Law as well as International Development at Coventry University and a member of the Coventry University Group Leadership Team since 2017.

Previously, he was Dean/Director of Ashridge from 2003 to 2015. Following the 2015 strategic alliance of Ashridge with Hult International Business School, Peters was appointed Chief Academic Officer of the combined institution. Prior to joining Ashridge, Peters was Dean, and previously director of MBA programs, at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) of Erasmus University in the Netherlands, one of the first schools in Europe to achieve the accreditation triple crown.

Peters has written or co-written 10+ books and chapters and 50+ academic and practitioner articles on leadership and management education including the books Steward Leadership: A Maturational Perspective for the University of Cape Town Press in 2013 and Rethinking Business Schools for Emerald Publishing in 2018. Two of his articles were selected as the best articles in the EFMD’s Global Focus in 2021. He has been twice selected in the UK for HR magazine’s top 100 HR professionals.

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