David Farnham was Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, an emeritus professor at the University of Portsmouth and visiting professor at the University of Greenwich, UK. He was a visiting professor at the University of East London, a visiting senior research fellow at the University of South Wales and a visiting senior research fellow at the Catholic University Leuven. He was Chief Examiner for the CIPD and a member of the advisory board of the Personnel Policies Study Group of the European Group of Public Administration, Brussels.