Stephen Bungay

Stephen Francis Bungay (born 2 September 1954)^[1] is a British management consultant, historian and author, and the Director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre at Hult International Business School.^[2]

Stephen Bungay
Born	2 September 1954 United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Occupation	Director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre at Hult International Business School

Biography

Bungay received an MA with First Class Honours from Oxford and studied for a doctorate in philosophy at Oxford and the University of Tübingen in Germany, where he was a Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. He worked in the London and Munich offices of The Boston Consulting Group for seventeen years and worked in insurance before joining the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. He teaches on several executive programmes at Ashridge Executive Education program at Hult International Business School, and works as an independent consultant, teacher, and speaker.

Bungay published his first book on military history, The Most Dangerous Enemy – A History of the Battle of Britain, in 2000. His second history book, Alamein, was published in 2002. Since 2004 he has also been a contributor to television programmes including the Channel 4 series Spitfire Ace.

Personal life

He married Atalanta Beaumont in 1987, the daughter of Tim Beaumont, Baron Beaumont of Whitley. They have two sons, born in 1990 and 1994.

Publications

• Beauty and Truth: a Study of Hegel's Aesthetics (1984) ISBN 0-19-815540-9
• The Most Dangerous Enemy: a History of the Battle of Britain (2001) ISBN 1-85410-801-8
• Alamein (2002) ISBN 1-85410-842-5
• The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results (2010) ISBN 978-1-85788-559-0