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Morgen Witzel

Writer and lecturer

Morgen Witzel is a writer and lecturer. He is the author or co-author of more than thirty books, including works on leadership, ethics and governance, and has written for periodicals including the Financial Times, South China Morning Post, Toronto Globe and Mail and Los Angeles Times as well as many professional publications. He is an editorial board member of The Smart Manager, India’s leading English-language business magazine, for whom he has written a bi-monthly column for the past eighteen years.

Morgen lectures at the University of Exeter Business School on subjects including strategy, leadership and ethics, and at the University of Edinburgh, University of Warwick, Audencia Nantes in Frances and the Economics University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund.

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