Biography

Martin Lander joined the Faculty of Management and Law in March 09, having retired from the Royal Navy after 31 years service. Senior posts have included Naval Aviation Advisor in the Ministry of Defence; Lecturer/Head of Department at the Joint Services’ Command and Staff College; Deputy Director of the Joint Maritime Operations Training Staff, and Operations Manager in a major NATO headquarters. In his last post, he was a member of the Senior Management Team of the Naval Systems Department at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory at Farnborough.
He graduated from the Open University with a BSc (Hons) in 1995, gained a MA in Defence Studies at Kings College London in the same year, and more recently completed a Defence MBA at Cranfield University.

Departmental Duties

The Faculty Manager is a member of the senior management team of the Faculty of Management and Law, responsible for the effective management of all non-academic activities, strategic and operational, of the Faculty.

Responsibilities include: 

Working with the Dean of Faculty to develop and implement the strategic plans for the Faculty and its constituent parts; Manage the strategic planning process of the Faculty in accordance with procedures and timescales agreed with the University; Ensuring that the activities of the Faculty remain under strategic review in light of internal and external drivers; Ensure that risks – strategic and operational – are identified and managed appropriately; Represent the Faculty and the needs of the core activities of the University more generally at Institutional level and beyond in order to facilitate the achieving of strategic and operational objectives.