Stuart Hopper

Stuart is a Visiting Lecturer at the Law Faculty. He is co-founder of Table13 Consulting, a boutique legal strategy consultancy working with clients to innovate their service delivery. This builds on his 30 years’ experience as a qualified lawyer practising in the City of London and offshore in the British Virgin Islands, as Director of Knowledge for the Global M&A Practice at Baker McKenzie, Director of Practice Development, Knowledge & Innovation at Dentons and as a Director of Consulting at Elevate and at Lexington Consultants.

Stuart is a LawTech UK mentor, a member of the Lawtech Sounding Board at the City of London, and set up (and chairs) the Industry Mentor Group for Oxford’s postgraduate Law & Computer Science Programme. He is a contributing author to Legal Due Diligence in International M&A Transactions - A Practitioner's Guide (Kästle/Svernlöv eds, 2022); quoted in Professional Services Leadership Handbook: How to lead a professional services firm in a new age of competitive disruption (Beddow, Kent, Furner & Clark 2017); was the editor of Baker McKenzie’s International Joint Ventures Handbook (1st ed. Oct 2015) and Global M&A Handbook (1st ed. Mar 2015); author of “Legal Service Delivery: Project Management & Knowledge Management - Friends Ever After?” in Legal Monitor, Jun 2014; and co-author of “The rise and rise of the Auction Process - Some Trends Within the Trend” in Bloomberg European Business Law Journal (2007) Vol. 1 Issue 1.

A graduate of the Cranfield NED Programme, Stuart has a BA in Jurisprudence and an MA from Oxford University; an MBA from Henley Business School (with a dissertation on behavioural change in law firms); an MA (Distinction) in African Studies from SOAS, University of London (with a dissertation on Economic Anthropology); and is currently studying for a DPhil back at Oxford. He is admitted as a solicitor (non-practising) of the Supreme Court of England and Wales and the British Virgin Islands.

Born in Ethiopia, with dual British/Nigerian heritage, Stuart is an active champion of diversity, equality and inclusion, currently on the board of an Africa-wide STEM educational charity for girls, and an observer on the board of a Uganda-based charity working to provide extended family care to children as an alternative to orphanage placement and ad hoc advisor to the board of a charity setting up a maths Olympiad programme in Rwanda, as well as a Qualified Mental Health First Aider, and a Qualified UKCC Level 1 rugby coach.

For work enquiries, please contact Stuart on stuart@table13consulting.com; for Faculty-related matters, please use the link at the top of this page.