Professor Peter Grinyer is imiPro®’s most valuable advisor on business strategy and strategy management.  Peter is Emeritus Professor at the University of St Andrews, and a member of The Competition Appeal Tribunal at UK.  Peter was Esmee Fairbairn Professor of Economics, founded the School of Management, and was in the 1980s Vice-Principal and, in 1985, Acting Principal. Prior to St Andrews he held the FME Chair in Business Strategy at City University.

Peter has been a Visiting Professor at Stern School of Business, New York University and Erskine Fellow at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.  He has also been a non-executive director of Ellis and Goldstein Plc, Don Brothers Buist Plc, John Brown Plc and McIlroy Coates. He is on the editorial boards of several journals on managerial economics and strategy.

Peter has published over fifty papers in the learned journals and five books on aspects of strategy.  He currently serves on the editorial boards of the Strategic Management Journal and the Journal of Managerial and Decision Economics.  In parallel with these contributions to education and the development of thinking on strategic issues he has made practical contributions.  He has been a director of three public companies in the United Kingdom.  For seven years he was  Chairman of the St Andrews Management Institute and St Andrews Strategic Management  Ltd. (which undertook some 50 strategy and scenario planning projects including a number for major British and international companies) and has undertaken a range of consultancy projects through out his career.