Walmsley isn’t “an MBA”, she has a Master’s in Classics and Modern Languages ;) Real world experience trumps a degree in almost all cases. It certainly helps,

Walmsley isn’t “an MBA”, she has a Master’s in Classics and Modern Languages ;) Real world experience trumps a degree in almost all cases. It certainly helps, but you don’t need a PhD to be a scientist, and you definitely don’t need one to lead scientists.