Loretta O’Donnell is Vice Provost at Nazarbayev University. She has over twenty years of experience as an academic teacher at Executive MBA, postgraduate business and undergraduate business levels in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. She has led numerous programmes in development, programme management and academic programme reviews. She also has extensive experience as a management consultant, gained within a large global firm in Chicago and a boutique firm specialising in developing management systems to sustain change.