{"id":323034,"date":"2026-08-17T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323034\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T11:44:09","slug":"new-chair-appointed-to-queens-business-school-advisory-board-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323034\/","title":{"rendered":"New chair appointed to Queen\u2019s Business School advisory board \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Queen\u2019s Business School (QBS) in Belfast has appointed Northern Ireland-born Dr Lyle Watters as the new chair of its advisory board, starting from September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is a former senior executive of Ford Motor Company, where he spent 37 years in leadership roles across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, USA, South America, China and other key Asian markets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He served for eight years as a corporate officer of Ford, including as president of Ford South America &amp; International Markets Group, vice president and general manager of Ford\u2019s passenger vehicle business in China, and CFO of Ford of Europe and South America. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has extensive international board and governance experience, including roles with major Ford joint ventures in China, Turkey, Russia and Germany. <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/belfast-company-set-up-to-recover-quinn-familys-overseas-assets-paid-final-9m-to-irish-state-ahead-of-its-dissolution-R2DRWOFNMRFPBMP44Q6ADRFP6Q\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Belfast company set up to recover Quinn family&#x2019;s overseas assets paid final $9m to Irish state ahead of its dissolution\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MB35IAZ5NRFC7FD53PKSJEPOQU.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/business\/becoming-a-proper-scientist-how-joanne-studied-her-way-into-a-scientific-career-ZXVDSIUQDBBOVHQEOSTY3TYKV4\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Becoming a &#x2018;proper scientist&#x2019;:  How Joanne studied her way into a scientific career\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2OWPZIXBKNH5TDHPHRQI6YL3IQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">His work has encompassed evaluating and executing investment opportunities, fostering domestic and export growth, developing innovative business models and spearheading organizational restructuring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is also a member of the Senate of Queen\u2019s University Belfast, a trustee of the USPCA, and an independent business adviser. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A graduate of Queen\u2019s, where he completed his MBA, Dr Watters was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science in Economics by Queen\u2019s earlier this summer in recognition of his contribution to business and leadership. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He said:\u202f\u201cI\u2019m delighted to take on this role at an exciting time for the School. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cQBS has strong foundations and growing international ambition, and I believe the board can make a real contribution by bringing external insight, constructive challenge and strong connections to business and wider society. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMy priority is to ensure the board is forward-looking and impactful, helping QBS anticipate change, strengthen its international reach and create new opportunities for its students, faculty and the communities it serves.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queen\u2019s Business School (QBS) in Belfast has appointed Northern Ireland-born Dr Lyle Watters as the new chair of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[15970,9,24,63,7475,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-323034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-belfast","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queen-s-university","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}