Ramon O’Callaghan has taken on what must be one of the most confusing jobs in the world of business schools. As the newly-appointed dean of TiasNimbas, in the Netherlands, he is taking over a school that has as many stakeholders as most career academics encounter in a lifetime.

The business school is owned 80 per cent by Tilburg University and 20 per cent by Eindhoven University of Technology. The school teaches degree programmes on four campuses – three in the Netherlands and one in Germany – with all the logistical intricacies that involves. TiasNimbas also offers a full-time and a part time MBA in partnership with the UK’s Bradford University and another part-time programme with the University of Tilburg. In addition it has a dual-degree executive MBA with Purdue in the US, which partners with the Central European University in Hungary and Gisma business school in Germany.