Prof. Doris Schroeder was educated in Germany and the United Kingdom at postgraduate level in business/economics and philosophy/politics. After a career in management for Warner Music, she worked at Lancaster University before joining UCLan's Centre for Professional Ethics, which she became the Director of in 2008. She also held a professorial post at the University of Melbourne (2007-2012) and currently holds a part-time professorial position at Uclan Cyprus.