Adjunct and Honorary Professors

Adjunct Professors are a valuable resource for the school - bringing their industry perspective to interactions with staff, students and clients.

Adjunct Professors

Carter, Mr Robert

Rob is currently Managing Director of Strategic Navigation Consulting and an Associate of the Global Foresight Network and EMD Workforce Development. Rob was formerly CEO of Brisbane City Council, the NRMA, the Housing Corporation of New Zealand, and the Dennis Family Corporation. He was awarded the New Zealand Commemoration Medal in 1990 and the Australian Public Service Medal in 2000.

Cole, Dr John

As founding head of the Office of Clean Energy Dr John Cole is responsible for developing and delivering on the Queensland Government's commitment to renewable energy, demand management innovation, and energy efficiency.

A leading strategic thinker and advisor in sustainable development, for nearly ten years until October 2008 John served as an executive director of the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency heading its non-regulatory innovation divisions. An early proponent of triple-bottom-line thinking in government and industry, since the mid 1980s he has been involved in public policy, industry development, environment management and community empowerment - variously as a parliamentary adviser/speech writer, company manager, industry lobbyist, chief executive of an NGO, public servant and occasional university teacher.

Copplin, Mr Stephen

Stephen is an experienced senior executive having held senior executive positions prior to growing his own successful software company. He is a business coach with the leading international coaching group Shirlaws.

His professional career spans numerous industry sectors, including finance, insurance, investment banking, technology, media and creative industries. During his time, Stephen has successfully managed operations for multi-national corporations, negotiated multi-million dollar international acquisitions and divestments and built start-ups from inception through to trade sale.

Of recent times he has been involved with the Queensland based i.lab technology incubator as CEO, a member of the advisory panel of Inqbator the BITS funded incubator and was the CEO of the Creative Industries Precinct. As a result of his successes, Stephen has played a pivotal role as mentor, investor, advisor, and director to a portfolio of businesses assisting them with their growth and succession planning.

A FCPA by profession he is also a professional Company Director, he currently sits on boards of both unlisted public and private companies.

Freeman, Mr Christopher

Chris Freeman is currently the Chairman of Development for Queensland, UAE and UK. For 10 years he held the role of CEO for Mirvac Queensland. He has extensive experience in Property Development and Finance having held executive roles for the past 20 years. Chris is Chair of the Mayor Brisbane Festivals, a Director of Translink Transport Authority, Tennis Australia Ltd and is a member of the Lord Mayors' Urban Future's Board. He is Past President of the Urban Development Institute of Australia and Past Chapter Chair of the Australian Business Arts Foundation.

Gilmore, Mr Rowan

Rowan has been the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Institute for Commercialisation (AIC) since May 2003. Prior to this role, he was based in London and Geneva from 1998 as Vice President of Network Services, Europe for SITA-Equant, now France Telecom's Orange Network.

Goss, Mr Wayne

Wayne Goss is currently Chairman, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Chairman, Ausenco Limited: and Chair of Free TV Australia Limited. He is also a fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Wayne was previously Chairman of Queensland Art Gallery; Director Ingeus Ltd; Director, WebCentral Group Limited; Chair of the Advisory Council of The University of Sydney Graduate School of Government and Chair of the Government Reform Commission for the South Australian Government.

Grantley, Mr Dick

Dick is Managing Director of GCB Simon Richards, a member of Australia's largest relationship marketing organisation - The Simon Richards Group. He was also a founding partner of Viva Olive Products and Canetech, a company created to develop new technology for the total utilisation of sugar cane and the marketing of newly developed sugar cane products.

Hadgkiss, Mr Nigel

Nigel Hadgkiss was Deputy Commission of the ABCC from 1 October 2005 to 15 October 2008. Nigel had been the Director of the Building Industry Taskforce since its inception in October 2002. He was awarded the Australian Police Medal (APM) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List and is a Winston Churchill Fellow.

Hayes, Mr Anthony (Tony)

Tony Hayes was appointed as Executive Director of the Service Delivery and Performance Commission in April 2006. He has extensive experience across the Queensland public sector in a variety of senior level positions in departments such as the former Public Service Board, Queensland Health and various other departments as well as secondments to central agencies. Tony has specialist experience and skills in strategic management and planning, organisational review and business process improvement, information and business strategy development, change management and project management. Tony has also held a number of senior appointments with the Certified Practising Accountants of Australia as a member and Chair of the Information Management and Technology Centre of Excellence. In 2003, he was appointed to the Board of the Information Technology Governance Institute in the USA. This Board oversights the development of IT Governance Standards and Policies for most professional associations and bodies throughout the world.

Higham, Mr Ron

Ron Higham is a non-executive director with a number of privately-owned Queensland companies, including the Riverside Marine Group and Trilby Misso Lawyers Limited, and also operates a consultancy in mergers, acquisitions and business valuation advice.

Ron was previously a partner for over 20 years with the international accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, specialising in company and business valuation.

Lonie, Mr Stephen

Stephen Lone operates a consultancy that specialises in corporate strategy, planning and feasibility studies, corporate governance and management decision-making processes, and negotiating and facilitating corporate transactions including IPOs MBOs and mergers, acquistions, and divestments. Stephen is a former Managing Partner of KPMG Queensland.

Murdoch, Mr Grant

Grant Murdoch is a Partner of Ernst & Young and the Divisional Director of Ernst & Young Transaction Advisory Services Limited in Queensland. Grant is chairman of the Endeavour Foundation, Treasurer of the University of Queensland Rugby Club and a member of the Commercial Committee of the Mater Medical Research Insitute.

Parker, Dr David

David Parker is an internationally recognised property industry expert and highly regarded property academic, being a director and adviser to property investment groups including listed real estate investment trusts (REITs), unlisted funds and private property businesses.

Dr Parker is also an Adjunct Professor of Property at the University of Queensland and at the University of Technology Sydney, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Ulster and an Acting Commissioner of the Land and Environment Court in New South Wales

Scanlan, Mr Len

Len Scanlan was Auditor-General of Queensland from 1997 until 2004. Len has since pursued a career as an independent consultant which includes service on audit committees, as a nonexecutive director and undertaking general consulting work.

Stevenson, Mr Kevin

Kevin Stevenson, who is currently a senior partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Capital Markets Group, becomes Chairman and CEO of the Australian Accounting Standards Board on 1 July 2009. He was, until May 2005, the Director of Technical Activities for the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Chairman of the IASB's International Financial Reporting Interpretations Committee (IFRIC) in London.

Strong, Mr James

James is currently Chairman of Woolworths Limited, Insurance Australia Group (IAG) Limited, the Australia Council for the Arts and the surf wear company Rip Curl Group Pty Ltd. He is also a Director of Qantas Airways Limited, and the Australian Grand Prix Corporation
and Dorna Sports SL (Spain).

Van Homrigh, Mr David

David is a Forensic partner in the Australian KPMG firm, providing a range of dispute advisory, and investigation services with a focus on the ENR sector. He was the managing partner of KPMG Forensic in Australia for over 10 years since the inception of the business in 1998 and for the Asia Pacific region until January 2009. During the same period, he was a member of the KPMG International Forensic Steering Group with general responsibility for the development of forensic services in the Asia Pacific region.

Wyatt, Dr David

David Wyatt is Chairman of Papyrus Australia Ltd, an ASX-listed banana paper technology company ([www.papyrusaustralia.com.au|http://www.papyrusaustralia.com.au). David was co-founder of the award-winning biotechnology company PanBio established in 1987 and held the position of Managing Director from 1991 to 1998.

Honorary Professors

Alvesson, Professor Mats

Mats Alvesson is Professor of Business Administration at the University of Lund, Sweden. He has previously held positions in Montreal, Turku, Linkoping, Stockholm and Goteborg, and has been a visiting academic at the universities of Cambridge, Melbourne, Colorado and Oxford. He received his PhD from the University of Lund in 1984. His research interests include critical theory, gender, power, management of professional service (knowledge intensive) organisations, organisational culture and symbolism, qualitative methods and philosophy of science. He has published a large number of journal articles and contributed to many handbooks. He is on the editorial board of Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies, Strategic Organization, Management Communication Quarterly, Organizational Research Methods and a co-editor of Organization.

Danaher, Professor Peter

Peter Danaher is the Coles Myer Chair of Marketing and Retailing at the Melbourne Business School in Australia. He was previously Professor and Chair of the Marketing Department at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He has also held visiting positions at London Business School, The Wharton School and MIT. He has a PhD in statistics from Florida State University and an MS in statistics from Purdue. His primary research interests are media exposure distributions, advertising effectiveness, television audience measurement and behavior, internet usage behavior, customer satisfaction measurement, forecasting and sample surveys, resulting in many publications in journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and the American Statistician. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science and Journal of Marketing and is an Area Editor for the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has consulted extensively with Telecom, Australia Post, Optus Communications, Unilever, Nielsen Media Research, and other market research companies. He has also been the survey auditor for the television ratings services in New Zealand, Australia and Ireland.

Gann, Professor David

Professor David Gann holds the position of Chair in Technology and Innovation Management at the Business School,Imperial College London. He works closely with Professor Mark Dodgson, with whom he has produced three books and numerous articles on the management of innovation. David is responsible for a large portfolio of research in collaboration with firms in design, manufacturing, engineering, construction, ICT services and healthcare industries. His personal research includes work on the intensification of innovation, focusing on 'Innovation Technology' (IvT), the new electronic toolkit supporting design, research, development and engineering. His work focuses on how IvT can reduce costs and uncertainty in innovation processes. It includes studying the use of simulation and modelling in innovation, and management of innovation in project-based firms. David consults with a
number of leading companies and is Group Innovation Executive at Laing O'Rourke, a £5b international construction and civil engineering group. He is Chairman of the Think Play Do Group, a start-up company part-owned by Imperial College and University of Queensland.

Holmes, Professor Scott

Scott Holmes is currently Dean of Graduate Studies, Professor of Accounting and Senior Adviser to the Vice-Chancellor, The University of Newcastle. Until recently he was an adviser to the Federal Minister for Defence and in 2007/08 was senior adviser to the NSW Treasurer. He also acts as an adviser to a number of organisations in the public and private sector and is currently a director of The Callaghan Institute an independent research consulting group. In 2004 Scott was made a Life Member of the Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand in recognition of his research into small firm financial management. In 2006 he was the Business Higher Education Roundtable (BHERT) Entrepreneurial Educator of the year.

Hughes, Professor Alan

Alan Hughes has held the Margaret Thatcher Chair of Enterprise Studies at the Judge Business School Cambridge since 1999 along with the Directorship of the Centre for Business Research (CBR) since 1994. Alan's research includes the analysis of the growth, financing and
innovative behaviour of large, small and medium sized enterprises, takeovers and corporate governance. In 2004 Alan was appointed by the
UK Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair to membership of the Council for Science and Technology. CST is the UK government's top-level advisory
body on science and technology policy issues.

Kleidon, Allan

Allan Kleidon is a Senior Vice President at Cornerstone Research and is an expert in the fields of securities and company valuation, securities markets, industry analysis and damage analysis. He is an alumnus of UQ Business School, and has held academic positions at Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Chicago and UQ.

Lane, Richard

Richard Lane is an Honorary Reader in the UQ Business School. His current interests are in risk management in large-scale systems,
including international supply chain management. He has presented papers at conferences in Australia and overseas and lectured extensively in these areas, and consulted in these areas. Before joining the university he worked in operations analysis and management science in military and business applications.

Officer, Professor Robert (Bob)

Bob is among Australia's best known academics in the area of Finance. Among his academic awards are Fellowship of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and Life Membership of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand. He has an international reputation for his pioneering work on valuation and the impact of dividend imputation, and also holds expertise in the areas of corporate and international finance, capital markets, industrial organisation, takeovers and antitrust. Bob was, until recently, Chair of Victorian Funds Management Corporation with $37 billion under management. He holds positions on a number of funds management organisations and has held several other prestigious appointments including Chairman of both the Victorian and National Commissions of Audit.

Richardson, Professor Gordon

KPMG Professor of Accounting, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Gordon Richardson was Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research from 2001-2006. He has twice been a visiting scholar at UQ Business School . Gordon's current research interests include the role of information in the pricing of equity securities, voluntary disclosure and the quality of disclosure in annual reports, and accounting-based valuation models. He and Professor Peter Clarkson at the University of Queensland are currently involved in leading edge research involving the quality of firm environmental disclosures and the impact of those disclosures on various stakeholders, using a scoring model developed for corporate environmental sustainability reports. He is also doing joint research with Professor Clarkson involving the impact of International Financial Reporting Standards on European and Australian firms.