Jonathan Black

Associate Fellow, Director of Corporate Affairs
Said Business School, Oxford University

Jonathan Black leads the School's work on developing relationships with outside organisations to support students, faculty, research and executive education; he is leading the development of the School-wide contacts database, Partnership program and the team of industry Sector Consultants. He also leads the School's developments in Media & Communications Management, co-teaching an MBA course and leading the annual Summit. Jonathan also teaches and counsels MBA students on careers in Management Consulting. He organises the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event in entrepreneurship and is Administrator of the SBS Venture Fund.

Prior to moving to Oxford, 4 years ago, he co-founded PhysicansDecisions.com, a medical internet business, which was successfully sold to Reed Elsevier. Jonathan was Chief Financial Officer of Harcourt International Publishers and of Times Mirror International Publishers in London for 6 years, having moved from Director of Strategy at Times Mirror, Los Angeles. Prior to this he was a senior consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in the UK and USA. Jonathan is a Council Member of Modern Art Oxford, and Director of Minervation and OVADA. He holds an MEng from Cambridge University and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance.