27/01/2022 - Professor Dan Ladley, Dean of the Business School, Professor Henrietta O'Connor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, and Guest of Honour, Leicester alumnus Sam Barnett, plant a tree to mark the official opening of the new Business School.
27/01/2022 - Guest of Honour, Leicester alumnus Sam Barnett (LLB Law, 2004), former President of technology talent investment fund Entrepreneur First, and founder of RESOLVE, which provides scientists with the most effective path to roll out carbon capture and storage solutions.
27/01/2022 - Guests at the official launch of the new Business School could learn about the site’s history from displays and Student Ambassadors.
27/01/2022 - Current ULSB students were on hand at the official opening to tell guests about Brookfield and the Business School.
27/01/2022 - Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice-Chancellor, chats with Dr Fabrizio Adriani, Associate Professor in Economics and Financial Economics (L) and Professor Richard Thomas, Dean of Research, College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (R).
27/01/2022 - Among the invited guests was Mr Dan Harrison, Chairman of Leicestershire County Council.
27/01/2022 - Professor Dan Ladley, Dean of the Business School, described the School’s many successes to the assembled guests.
27/01/2022 - The plaque was unveiled by Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice-Chancellor, and Sam Barnett, entrepreneur and Leicester alumnus. Also in attendance were Professor Dan Ladley, Dean of the Business School, and Professor Henrietta O'Connor, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.
27/01/2022 - Professor Nishan Canagarajah, President and Vice-Chancellor, with descendants of Thomas Fielding Johnson, the University’s founding benefactor, who lived at Brookfield. The newly commissioned portrait of Fielding Johnson hangs in the Business School reception.