Professor Cary Cooper CBE AcSS

Chair of Council

Professor Cooper is Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health at Lancaster University, is Chair of the think tank The Sunningdale Institute in the National School of Government and was lead scientist of the government’s Foresight project on Mental Capital and Wellbeing.

He brings with him a strong advocate voice for the importance of the social sciences, having worked with UN and EU agencies, government departments and a number of national and international bodies. He was awarded the CBE by the Queen in 2001 for his contribution to organizational health and wellbeing.

He writes regularly for The Times, The Director and other newspapers and magazines, and regularly appears on national radio and TV on topics to do with the workplace, health and work and wellbeing issues.

Professor Cooper is a long standing Academician from its very beginnings, and was a former President of the British Academy of Management (a member learned society of the Academy), being its Founding President from 1986-1990 and elected again from 2000-2004.

Professor Cooper is very keen on the topic of work-life balance, as a father of four children, and regularly goes with his daughter Laura to see their football team Manchester City FC.  This might explain why he is the national expert on stress!