Michie studied at
United World College of the Atlantic from 1973 where he gained his
International Baccalaureate. He then gained a scholarship to
Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained first class honours in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and later a doctorate, after having obtained an MSc in Economics (with Distinction) from
Queen Mary, University of London. In 1983 he moved to the Economics Department of the
Trades Union Congress and then in 1988 to Brussels as an Expert to the
European Commission, before becoming an academic at the
University of Cambridge in 1990. After seven years at Cambridge – first in the Economics Faculty and then the Judge Business School – he took up the Sainsbury Chair of Management at the
University of London, where he was head of the School of Management & Organizational Psychology at
Birkbeck College. In 2004, he became a professor of management at the
University of Birmingham where he was director of the
Birmingham Business School and a member of the University Council. He was also a non-executive director of the Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust. In December 2007, he was appointed to the joint positions of Director of
Oxford University Department for Continuing Education and President of
Kellogg College, Oxford. He stood down as director of the department in 2021. Michie authored a report which called for
Northern Rock to be remutualised. Michie was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the
2022 New Year Honours for services to education. ==Shareholders United==