Marguerite L Weber Author

Marguerite L Weber, MBA., CMgr MCMI., FREC, has worked in the U.K., and Australia with international recruitment mandates covering the Channel Islands; U.S.A; Europe; S.E. Asia; and the Middle East. In 2000, she co-founded Bevan Weber Associates (BWA), the first specialist alternative investment executive search firm run by women in the City of London, launching offices in Singapore from 2007. Previously, Marguerite was instrumental in the inception (1992), launch and sale of The Berwick Group (financial services executive search consultancy) in 2000. Marguerite lectures part-time in Leadership and Organisation Studies at the Bristol Business School’s (UWE) faculty of Business and Law. She has been project mentor for the Universities Summer Enterprise Scholarships and sat on the judging panel of the equivalent to ‘Dragon’s Den’ style pitching for entrepreneurial students to secure funding from local businesses.

Hugo Gaggiotti is Professor at the University of the West of England, UK. He has a PhD in Anthropology and a PhD in Management. He was a foreigner at birth and has remained displaced all his life. The focus of his writing is on the intersections between rhetoric, rituals, liminality and the symbolic construction of the meaning of work in mobile transnational workers. He conducted his fieldwork for many years in the borderlands industrial regions of Pindamonhangaba (Brazil), Ciudad Juarez (Mexico), Almaty (Kazakhstan) and currently in the US-Mexican borderlands of Baja California (British Council-Newton Fund Grant) and in UK (British Academy-Leverhulme).