Professor Rebecca Taylor is a Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Southampton, UK and the CEO of the University of Southampton Malaysia. Previously she was the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Business and Law at The Open University for 6 years. Rebecca is a highly experienced educator at undergraduate and postgraduate level, with research interests in international economics and the development of online learning materials. Rebecca holds a BA(Hons) in Economics from Queen’s University, Canada, an MSc in Economics from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Portsmouth. Rebecca represents the University and the Faculty on a number of high-profile national and international boards; she is the Vice-President (academic) of the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD), the Deputy Chair of the Chartered Management Institute Malaysia, the Deputy Chair of the British Malaysian Chamber of Commerce Higher Education Committee, a member of the International Advisory Board of IESEG (France) and the Chair of the International Advisory Board of the LUISS Business School (Italy).
Rebecca Taylor