Stephan Chambers

Stephan Chambers was in 2000 - the first full year of operation - appointed a fellow of Said Oxford Business School where he teaches New Business Development on the MBA programme and began work for the University of Oxford's technology transfer company, Isis Innovation. His research interests, in addition to the development of new businesses, are in electronic learning, digital publishing and science entrepreneurship.

Stephan Chambers was educated at the University of Geneva and at Hull University. He then studied for his MLitt at Oxford. In 1984 he joined Blackwell Publishers, where he spent the next 16 years, as commissioning editor, new business development director, editorial director, acting chief executive of Blackwell's US company, chairman of the joint venture company NCC Blackwell, and member of the publishing company's board.