Academic Advisers

Executive Dean Designate, Faculty of Business and Law, Victoria University
David has nearly two decades of experience in management education as a teacher, researcher and administrator, working as Head of the Graduate School in the University of Western Sydney College of Business, Director and CEO of the Sydney Graduate School of Management Ltd, and in a variety of senior management roles at Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

Professor of Intercultural Management, Liverpool Hope University, Affiliate Professor, ESC Rennes, Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School
David Weir joined Liverpool Hope in 2007, after seven years as Professor at CERAM in France after a career spent partly in business and mainly as a Dean and Director of three of the UK's leading Business Schools – the Bradford School of Management (rated in the top group for research in the 1990s under David's direction), the Newcastle Business School (rated as "excellent" for its teaching), and the historic Glasgow University.

Dean, Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University
Howard Thomas is internationally recognized as a leading expert in the field of strategic management. He has published a wide range of articles in areas which include competitive strategy, risk analysis, strategic change, international management and decision theory. He is Chair of the Global Foundation for Management Education (GFME).

University Librarian, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Steve has held a number of posts in tertiary education in Australia and, as the Chief Executive Officer of a large Australian Consortium, developed and managed projects and programmes to serve the library industry. His work demonstrates a research and futures focus, which has been developed to ensure library and information services achieve relevant, efficient and cost-beneficial outcomes for all stakeholders.

Salford Business School, Salford University, Manchester, UK
In addition to his work at Salford, Richard Li Hua is a Professor and Director of the Management of Technology Study Centre at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing. He has been involved in a number of innovative international development strategy projects and he also manages collaborative ventures with a number of universities in China. Richard is also founder and current president of China Association for Management of Technology (CAMOT) and is visiting professor and invited speaker at a number of universities in China and the West.

Professor of Technology Management at Aston Business School
David is a member of the Aston Business School's Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Research Group. He has authored and co-authored several books as well as numerous articles and is general editor of the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management. He is a past president of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) and a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT).

Professor in Real Estate and Donaldson's Fellow in commercial property in the Department of Real Estate and Construction at Oxford Brookes University
Nick originally graduated from the University of Reading and most of his academic career has been based there. He became involved with the Journal of Property Investment & Finance in 1983, taking over as editor in 1987. He is a founding member of the European Real Estate Society.

Professor of Accounting at the University of Sydney and chair of the discipline of accounting
James has published over 100 articles in both international and national refereed and professional journals, and over 30 chapters in books. He has presented his ideas and research findings to over 230 national and international gatherings. James is also co-editor of seven public sector management and accounting books. He is the co-editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

Works in the Leeds University Health Sciences Institute health and social care policy group
Keith has 35 years' NHS experience, latterly as an academic. He edits the International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance and publishes widely on health and social care policy and practice issues. He has an extensive national and international research portfolio, notably health and social care workforce planning and development.

CBIM Roundtable Professor of marketing and Director of the Centre for Business and Industrial Marketing at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University
Wes Johnston has been the editor of Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing since 1993. He is also on the editorial board of several other journals. His research interests include application of behavioural sciences to marketing in customer relationship management and strategic account programmes.

Professor of Commerce and Associate Head (research) in the School of Commerce at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Lee Parker's previous positions include the Universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Monash, Griffith and Flinders as well as visiting professorships in the UK, USA, New Zealand, Singapore and Kuwait. He has published over 150 articles and books on management and accounting internationally and is joint founding editor of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal.

Sir Isaac Wolfson Professor in Economics and Business Administration, Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Adrian was born in the UK and educated at Cambridge and Stanford universities and at the London School of Economics (Ph.D.). He is a former UK state scholar and Fulbright scholar. His main fields of specialty are: labour markets and labour force participation; the economics, evaluation and finance of vocational education and training; and university funding, including student loans and cost-sharing.