Professor Kleio Akrivou

Kleio leads the sustainability and business ethics practice and has 20 years of international experience in research, teaching and learning in business ethics and moral development. She has cross disciplinary expertise, spanning moral philosophy, psychology, adult development and education.

Her research is on moral philosophies of personalist virtue ethics and transcendental anthropology, informing sustainable and responsible business and ethical management. She writes about ethics, the future of leadership and management education, suggesting a realist, historically informed renewal of humanistic ethos with genuine sustainability orientation involving people and organisations. She earned her PhD at Case Western Reserve University, USA, and she earned prior degrees in Europe.

Her published works include books and academic articles published in international and specialist leading peer-review journals. She is a member of the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Learning and Education and Ethics in Science and Environmental Politics. Some of her publications are with Business Ethics: a European Review, the Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly; Frontiers and the Academy of Management Learning and Education.

Kleio has worked internationally across Europe, the USA and south-east Asia. She's a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a visiting researcher at the University of Navarra's Culture and Society Institute in Spain.