Dr. Cristina Sambrook is currently the Director of the MBA Programmes at the University of Birmingham (Birmingham Business School). She was previously in charge of the Executive MBA, and prior to that she led the BSc Business Management suite of programmes in Singapore, provided in collaboration with the Singapore Institute of Management. Before joining the Business School, Dr Sambrook had an international career, she lived and worked in several countries such as Romania, Israel and the UK, both in the public and private sectors. She was adviser to a Government minister, lead foreign investment projects in real estate and private pensions and more recently was a director and senior consultant on leadership development in London. This experience informs her pedagogical research and her teaching, as her interests revolve around cross cultural challenges (management, communication and strategy), leadership and international marketing.