Roland Kaye MSc BA (Hons) FCMA vice-president of CIMA

Financial Management, Jul/Aug 2002

Professor Kaye began his career as a management trainee with the English Electric Co in 1967. He subsequently held management accounting posts in major food manufacturing companies and a pharmaceutical company before becoming a lecturer at Grimsby College of Technology in 1976. After academic posts at the Humberside College of Higher Education, he moved to the University of East Anglia, where he founded a centre to advise higher education institutes on the use of computers in teaching.

He continues this work as co-director of the Learning Teacher Support Network for Business Management and Accountancy. In 1990 Kaye became a senior consultant with Management Development Associates. He is involved in regular corporate projects and management development programmes focusing on performance improvement and information management and strategies. Since 1991 Kaye has been at the Open University Business School (OUBS). He became its dean in 1999 and is responsible for quality and consistency of programmes and awards at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels. The faculty is run as a profit centre and Kaye also manages its international relationships. He is on the executive of the Association of Business Schools, a director of Open University Worldwide, and a governor of the United States Open University. Kaye has been a member of CIMA's IT, education and training, and student development committees, and is currently chairman of the Education and Examinations Board and a member of the executive committee. He has led two major syllabus reviews and has been a member of council since 1996.