Stephen Francis Bungay (born 2 September 1954) is a British

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, historian and author, and the Director of the Ashridge Strategic Management Centre at Hult International Business School.Hult Faculty – Stephen Bungay
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Biography

Bungay received an MA with First Class Honours from

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and studied for a doctorate in

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at Oxford and the

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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. He 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) * ''The Most Dangerous Enemy: a History of the Battle of Britain'' (2001) * ''Alamein'' (2002) * ''The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results'' (2010)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bungay, Stephen 1954 births Living people British historians British management consultants People from Edenbridge, Kent Hult International Business School faculty British historians of World War II