The best consultant in 2023

Mr Xiyuan Zheng

Former Consul General of China in Manchester

Member, Senior Diplomat Innovation and Practice Committee, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Professor Gu Sai

Executive Vice-Chancellor, University of Warwick

Lady Nancy Rothwell

Chancellor of the University of Manchester

Prof. Martin Cherkes

Tenured visiting professor of finance at Princeton University

He has worked at Columbia University, New York University, University of Pennsylvania and other prestigious business schools

Distinguished Professor Award at Wharton

Member, Wharton Center for Financial Institutions

He was a senior vice president at Barclays Bank in New York

Vice President, Chicago branch, Continental Bank of America

He also served as a financial consultant for five major savings banks in the United States

Prof. Oliver Linton

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, tenured Professor of Political Economy

He was a distinguished professor of "Thousand Talents Plan" at Renmin University

He was special economic Adviser to the Bank of England

He has won three EconometricTheory awards

He was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006

Elected to the Econometric Society in 2007

Academic papers have been cited more than 8,000 times

Prof. George Wharton

Tenured professor at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

One of the leaders of the Public policy programme at the London School of Economics

Several papers and special reports appear in The Lancet and its subsidiary journals

Formerly chief operating officer, Healthcare UK

Member, Editorial Board, British Journal: Healthcare Management

Member of the UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab Expert Group

WHO and the UK's National Health Service (NHS) provide advice and policy experts

Prof. Sam Butterworth

Professor of Chemistry, University of Manchester, PhD Supervisor

Chief scientist at the cancer division of Astrazeneca UK for decades

Graduated in chemistry from Oxford University

At present, he is the world's only inventor of the third-generation anti-cancer drug osimertinib/Tagrisso for lung cancer. 

With his outstanding contributions, he has won the highest awards from the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society