International Business’s Teaching and Research Vision

To be a top ranking education unit in international business in the world and deliver world-class teaching in international business which combines world-class research, scholarship and education to provide an exceptional student experience and appropriate skills.

To remain the top ranking research unit in international business in the world, and to achieve ESRC research centre status (or equivalent).

Pictured above: Top Row: Nicolas Forsans, Elizabeth Wang, Hanna Gajewska De Mattos, Janet Wood, Adam Cross, Surender Munjal, Bottom Row: Malcolm Chapman, Peter Buckley, Hinrich Voss and Jeremy Clegg. Not pictured: Mario Kafouros, Christos Antoniou and Liz Mason


Our International Business Division has global recognition for the quality of its research and Teaching. Our research centre, the Centre for International Business University of Leeds (CIBUL) has been identified as the world's leading Centre for International Business research in International Business Review (Chan, Fung and Leung, 2006) and as the second in the world for leadership in International Business research in Asia Pacific Journal of Management (Xu, Yalcinkaya and Seggie, 2007). Leeds University Business School has consistently been ranked in the World Top 10 for teaching in International Business (FT 2008). International Business Review (2010) places Leeds 15th in the world with Professor Peter Buckley as 6th top author. Within the University of Leeds, CIBUL has been designated as a Gold Peak of Excellence for the outstanding international calibre of its research.