Professor Nora Ann Colton is Dean of the Royal Docks Business School at the University of East London. Before coming to University of East London, she was a Professor and Chair of the Economics and Business Department at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, USA.

She received her D. Phil. from St. Antony's College, Oxford University. She has over 20 years in higher education. She speaks frequently and is published on issues regarding business education as well as Islamic Finance and Middle Eastern economies. She speaks Arabic fluently.

She is also co-author of a book with Elsevier Press entitled Middle East Finance: Missed-opportunities or Future Prospects and has a book forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan on the political economy of Yemen (December 2013).