Dr Rob Gowers
After gaining his PhD in economics from the University of Essex, Rob worked for four years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, based in the City of London. His time there included work with their Strategic Risk Services group, who helped senior executives identify, understand, assess and manage the business risks they faced across their whole enterprise. His roles within this group included direct consulting work on a wide range of client engagements, applying economic theory in solving strategic risk problems, constructing economic models in relation to the services on offer and developing academic partnerships. With 14 years’ experience as a Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University, Rob is now Senior Lecturer and Business Development Manager at Writtle University College.