Dr Christine Porter is the Head of Department of Human Resource Management in Westminster Business School, a CIPD Centre of Excellence. Her specialisms are International Human Resource Management and Employee Relations. Her background is in line management and personnel management in the hotel industry, in both London and Paris. She has considerable experience of running management training courses in the U.K. and has conducted many overseas assignments, including in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia. During 2005/6 she was part of an ACAS team advising the Romanian Economic & Social Council on accession to the European Union. . Her doctoral thesis is in the area of impact of national culture on management practice and learning styles, a subject on which she continues to write and research.

Christine has recently completed a 6th edition of a text The Skills of Management (co-authored with W. David Rees) due out April, 2008 and co-edited a further text, Exploring Human Resource Management (with Cecilie Bingham and David Simmonds) published in Autumn 2007.