Professor Thomas C. Lawton
Thomas Lawton is Professor of Strategy and International Business at EMLYON Business School (France) one of Europe’s top ten business schools. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth (USA) and a visiting faculty member at Imperial College London. His research expertise focuses on business model innovation, strategic political management and organisational capabilities, political risk and internationalisation strategy and strategy process and practice. He is also a leading global authority on strategic management in the airline business.
Professor Thomas C. Lawton
He has published more than 30 papers and book chapters and is the author or editor of 6 books; including Strange Power (2000) and Cleared for Takeoff (2002). His last book, Breakout Strategy: Meeting the Challenge of Double-Digit Growth, was published by McGraw-Hill Professional, New York, 2007 and has been widely commended for its global focus and relevance to practicing managers and aspiring leaders. His next co-authored book, Aligning for Advantage: Business Strategy for the Social and Political Arenas, will be published by Oxford University Press.
Professor Lawton has spent more than 15 years consulting for and advising leaders and managers on business development and market growth. He has worked with a wide range of international companies and organisations in developing their current and future strategic leaders and charting their strategic trajectories. He has facilitated senior management and board level workshops and led executive and graduate programs on corporate strategy, leadership and international business dynamics at universities and corporations.
Clients include the Arab Air Carriers Organisation, Bank of New York Mellon, Bombardier Transportation, EDF Energy, Environmental Agency Abu Dhabi, IBM, International Air Transport Association, Lincolnshire Police Authority, LSE Enterprise, Singapore High Technology Association and WYG Group.
He has previously held full, part-time and visiting faculty positions at Cranfield University, Imperial College London, Trinity College Dublin, the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration, the London School of Economics, Royal Holloway University of London, the University of Warwick and IESEG Université Catholique de Lille. He has also been Academic Director of the global Executive MBA in International Financial Services Management for JP Morgan Asset Management.
An Irish national, Professor Lawton holds degrees from University College Cork, The London School of Economics and a doctorate from the European University Institute, Florence. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).