Appointment news: Colette Henry appointed as Norbrook Professor of Business and Enterprise
5 January 2010
The Royal Veterinary College (RVC) has appointed Professor Colette Henry as the Norbrook Professor of Business and Enterprise.
This newly created position, sponsored by Norbrook Laboratories, is the first formal business and enterprise professorship created in a European veterinary school.
Professor Henry will head the new RVC Centre for Veterinary and Bioveterinary Enterprise. She will work alongside RVC Enterprise and the London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) to further develop the College’s teaching and research agendas, both nationally and internationally, across the fields of business and enterprise.
Before joining the RVC, Professor Henry was formally Head of Department of Business Studies and Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship Research at Dundalk Institute of Technology. She is currently President of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the UK’s leading network for those involved in the teaching, research and support of entrepreneurship.
Notes to Editors
- The Royal Veterinary College is the UK's first and largest veterinary school and a constituent College of the University of London. It also provides support for veterinary and related professions through its three referral hospitals, diagnostic services and continuing professional development courses. www.rvc.ac.uk
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