Dorothy (Dot) Griffiths is Deputy Principal of Imperial College Business School, Professor of Human Resource Management and Head of Programmes.

As Deputy Principal she supports the strategic direction of the School and sits on a number of the College's major strategic committees. As Haed of Programmes she has responsibility for the design and delivery of the Scholl's Programmes,  for teaching quality and for School Accreditations.

Professor Griffiths received a BSc in Sociology from the University of London, and an MSc in the Sociology of Science and Technology from the University of Bath. She joined Imperial College in 1969 and has held visiting positions at a number of other universities.

She consults widely in the area of Human Resource Management for major international organisations. Her current interests are in the area of talent acquisition and talent development. She has also worked on quality measures for HR performance. And she underatkes some executive coaching.

Dot is a Non Executive Director of a UK National Health Service Trust. She has a long term interest in the position of women in management, science and technology and has led a number of activities in this area on behalf on Imperial College, including chairing the College Academic Opportunities Commmittee.. She was a founder editor of Feminist Review and is now Chair of the Feminist Review Trust.

She is a member of the Higher Education Academy. In 2004 she was elected a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute (FCGI). In 2010 she was awarded an OBE for Sevices to Higher Education and made a Fellow of the RSA.

Prof Griffiths has written and co-authored numerous articles for international publications and academic collections. She has also undertaken a vast body of employment, gender and organisational research and teaching for companies such as the BBC, BP, Institute of Directors, National Power, Securicor, the Institute of Development Studies and Unilever.