Mick Yates
- Position: Visiting Professor
- Email: M.Yates@leeds.ac.uk
- Website: Yatesweb | Mick Yates Photography | Twitter | LinkedIn
Profile
Qualifications
- BA Combined Honours, Mathematics & Philosophy, University of Leeds (1972)
- MSc Consulting & Coaching for Change, HEC & Oxford University (2005)
- Visiting Professor, University of Leeds (2010)
- MA Photography, Falmouth University (2018–19)
Experience
I work mainly with the Inter Disciplinary Ethics Applied Centre, Arts Faculty (IDEA), wirth particular interest in Data Ethics and the Ethics of Photography. I am also involved with the Leading Minds project at the Centre, research into persuasion and communication, and its ethical implications for modern organisations.
I was a Stakeholder Board member on the EU SHERPA project, which Shapes the Ethical dimensions of smart information systems. Along with this, I was also on the Board of Advisors of digi.me, a world leading personal data start-up.
Previously, I led the team creating dunnhumby's partnerships with clients across the world. dunnhumby is the global leader in helping clients take customer focused and data-based business decisions. I also was Director on JV Boards on 3 continents (2006–2013.)
Before that, I was a senior corporate executive, with over 30 years working in Europe, the USA and Asia Pacific. Until mid 2001, I was Company Group Chairman of Johnson & Johnson's Consumer business in Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. Prior to this, I spent 22 years at Procter & Gamble, starting in marketing and then latterly as Regional Vice President based in Hong Kong, and then in Japan. In total, I spent 11 years as a Regional CEO of Asian businesses. I also served as Chairman for Living Cell Technologies, an Australia/New Zealand biotechnology company, from the IPO in 2004 until late 2006.
In the non-profit sector, I was a member of the Board of Trustees of Save the Children (USA, 2001–2007), a past member of the Board of Save the Children Korea, and a Chief Advisor to the Save the Children International Alliance.
In 1999, my family started a Cambodian school development program, in a remote ex-Khmer Rouge reconciliation area. We founded the Angkor Foundation to continue this work, and were awarded Medals of National Reconstruction by the Royal Cambodian Government (2002) and P&G Alumni's Humanitarian of the Year award (2011.) My recent MA was a documentary project about the Unfinished Stories of Cambodians that my family has known for twenty years, and who survived the Khmer Rouge Genocide.
I am a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS).
Research interests
- Data Ethics. I spent over a decade working in the consumer data industry,. As Visiting Professor at LUBS, I was named as an external co-investigator for Leed’s ‘Big Data’ ESRC bid in 2013 which led to the establishment of LIDA. At that time, I also represented the University at the Select Committee inquiry on Social Media Data & Real Time Analytics. I continue to work in the area. As noted above, I was a Stakeholder Board Member for the EU’s SHERPA intiative on the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence.
- Ethics of Photographer. Independent researcher and writer on ethical conisderations in photography.