AISAM 2009 - Teaching staff

Professor Ray Fells
The University of Western Australia

Ray Fells is Associate Dean (International Relations) UWA Business School at the University of Western Australia. His background is in industrial relations in the UK where he worked as an adviser and conciliator. He has taught a range of workplace-related subjects and has published widely on topics ranging from an oral history of the Pilbara iron ore industry to the use of strategy and language in negotiation. Ray Fell's MBA unit on negotiation is one of the more popular electives at the UWA Business School and he also teaches negotiation on the MBA program at the Judge Institute, Cambridge University.

Emeritus Professor Darrell Mahoney
Australian National Business School

Professor Mahoney is the Academic Director of AISAM 2009. Prior to his appointment as the National Director of ANBS Ltd., Professor Mahoney was Director of Postgraduate Programs and Director of International Programs for the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University. Darrell has lectured extensively in Asia, Russia and North America and offered many industry-based executive development programs. He is the principal author of International Business: A Managerial Perspective, which won The Australian newspaper Award for Educational Excellence in 2002. Darrell has published widely in accounting, financial and corporate planning, financial modelling, general and accounting education, and international business.

Professor Tim Mazzarol
The University of Western Australia

Tim Mazzarol is Director of Doctoral Programs at the UWA Business School, as well as a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Strategy. He was Director of the UWA Centre for Entrepreneurial Management and Innovation (CEMI) from 2003 to 2007 and also led the development of the entrepreneurship and innovation program within the UWA MBA. Prior to this he was at Curtin University of Technology from 1994 until 2000, where he worked for some time as a Research Fellow with the Institute for Research into International Competitiveness and the Small Business Unit.

Tim also has ten years of experience with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade including three years in the Australian Embassy Bangkok as Second Secretary. Tim's research in small business management and marketing has been published internationally. He is a shareholder and non-executive director of two small firms and is actively involved in consulting to a range of organisations both large and small. He is a sought after speaker and industry trainer in the fields of strategic management, marketing and innovation.

Business in Asia.
Two intensive MBA units undertaken over two weeks in Penang!

Dr Jane Menzies
Deakin University

Dr Jane Menzies is a Lecturer in International Business at the Deakin Business School, Deakin University. There she co-ordinates the International Business stream in the India Study Tour program that visits Mumbai and New Delhi annually.

Dr Menzies PhD focused on the participation of women in international assignments in multinational enterprises and her recent research has focused on the entry mode decisions that Australian businesses make when they enter the Chinese market. She has recently completed a report with her colleagues which examined the issues Australian businesses face in China.

David Neath
Deakin University

David Neath has a background in economic research for the National Australia Bank, Western Mining Corporation and BHP prior to academic appointments at Deakin University where he specialised in Public Economics and International Economics. He was Director of Deakin University's Master of International Business program and has taught in Xiamen, Shanghai and Beijing, China. His publications include four textbooks as well as journal articles and conference papers.

David has been involved with a number of major consultancy projects and has developed business strategy plans for many organisations. He was Leader of the Russian and CIS Education Project for the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau, from 1991-97 and oversaw projects delivered in Moscow, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk, Frjazino, Zhukovsky, Stavropol, Alma Ata, Bishtek, Donetsk and Kiev, and in Albania: Tirana, Skopje, Berati.

Dr Peter Robertson
University of Wollongong

Dr Peter Robertson was Director of the Centre for Supply Chain Solutions at the University of Wollongong Graduate School of Business 2007/8. Peter is now owner and Director of Ezyflow Logistics Pty. Ltd., a management consulting company in the field of supply chain management and logistics and an Honorary Fellow with the Wollongong Graduate School of Business.

Peter has 39 years of industry experience, most recently as Vice President Operations Planning at BlueScope Steel. In such roles he has worked across a range of geographies including North Asia (China and Japan), South East Asia (Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand), North America (Canada and United States), Australia and New Zealand.

Examples of Peter's work include BHP Steel's response to the Asian economic crises of 1997/1998, development of regional supply chain designs (e.g. South East Asian regional model), strategic supply chain studies (China, New Zealand and United States) and supply chain sales and operations planning (for BlueScope Steel's supply chain network).