Academic Advisers

Executive Dean, 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.

Head of the School of Business, Leadership and Enterprise, University Campus Suffolk, Affiliate Professor, ESC Rennes, Visiting Professor, Lancaster University Management School
Professor David Weir has had an extraordinarily successful academic career which has included leading four university Business Schools as Director of the Bradford Management School, Head of the Glasgow University Business School, Dean and Director of the Newcastle Business School and Dean of the Scottish Business School. He was also Chair of the Association of Business Schools (UK) and is a Visiting Professor for numerous universities including Lancaster University, one of the most highly rated Management Schools in the UK.

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.

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana
In addition to her work at KNUST, Helena Asamoah Hassan was once the President of the Ghana Library Association. She is also involved in PERI (Programme for the Enhancement of Research Information), INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Information), is country coordinator for INASP and EIFL and is chairperson of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Ghana (CARLIGH).

Professor – Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India
Abraham Koshy, working as Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 1989, is a reputed teacher, researcher, author, consultant and corporate trainer. He teaches in various long-duration programs such as the 2-year Post Graduate Program in Management, One-year Post Graduate Program for Executives, One-year Post Graduate Program in Public Policy and Management and in the Doctoral Program. He is also a program faculty in several short-duration executive training programs offerd by the Institute and designs and conducts customized programs for companies. He is a Visiting Professor at European School of Management, Paris and at Glasgow University, UK and a previous Visiting Professor at Strathclyde Business School, UK. Abraham is a many-times published author, including co-authoring Marketing Management with Philip Kotler, Kevin Lane Keller and Mithileshwar Jha.

Professor, Reims Management School, Reims, France
As a Professor in the Management & Decision Department at Reims Management School, Serge has been lecturing on Information and Strategy since 1991. His main areas of research are networks, business intelligence and iInnovation. Serge's many publications include Management des Systèmes d'Information, now in its 11th edition. He has also been, since 2010, a member of AIM (Association Information et Management) and has also served for six years as President of the Association of French Business Schools Libraries.

Director of Department of Information and Documentation Sciences, Charles de Gaulle University Lille 3 (IDIST), France
Joachim Schopfel holds the position of Directeur de l’UFR Information, Documentation et IST at Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3. He has previously held positions in information sciences at INST –CNRS, Université Nancy 2 and University of Hamburg. An expert in usage evaluation and grey literature, Joachim is author of more than 60 publications in the information sciences.

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.

Associate Professor and Programme Development Coordinator of the Doctorate Programme in Educational Leadership at the California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson-Los Angeles
Dr Anthony (Tony) H. Normore's research focuses on leadership development, preparation and socialization of urban school leaders in the context of ethics and social justice.

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 & 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 (PhD). 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.