Stephen Dean Junior joined the School of Management in May 2025 as a Senior Employer Engagement Officer, with a sector focus on Finance. In this role, he leverages over a decade of experience in financial markets recruitment, having previously served as a Consultant at Carisbrook Partners, where he established and led a specialist practice in Fixed Income and FX trading, with a focus on Emerging and Frontier Markets across Europe, Africa, and the Americas. His work spanned senior-level talent acquisition for investment banks, asset managers, and hedge funds, earning him recognition as a trusted advisor to global financial institutions.

Prior to his career in recruitment, Stephen held research and teaching positions across the UK and internationally. He was a Research Assistant at the University of Oxford’s School of Anthropology, contributing to the Seshat: Global History Databank project—an interdisciplinary initiative exploring long-term social and cultural evolution. He also served as a Postgraduate Tutor at King’s College London, teaching early modern European history, and held teaching posts in South Korea and the UK, including as an English language instructor and a supply teacher supporting SEND and asylum seeker students. Stephen holds a PhD in History from King’s College London (2015), where his research examined the relationship between firearms, power, and legitimacy in eighteenth-century Ireland. He also holds an MA in Intellectual History from the University of London (2009) (awarded through a joint programme at UCL and Queen Mary University), and a BA in History and Social Science from the University of Maine at Fort Kent (2006).