Our people

Heads of School

Name	Title
Professor Julia Richardson	Head of School
Associate Professor Peter Dell	Deputy Head of School
Associate Professor Michael Baird	Director, Learning and Teaching
Dr Rohini Balapumi	Deputy Director, Learning and Teaching
Dr Amalina Ibrahim	Deputy Director, Learning and Teaching
Professor Billy Sung	Director, Research
Dr Sharyn Curran	Director, Graduate Research
Dr Anwar Sadat Shimul	Deputy Director, Graduate Research

Discipline leads

Name	Title
Associate Professor Nik Thompson	Discipline Lead, Business Information Systems
John Curtin Distinguished Professor Fran Ackermann	Discipline Lead, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy
Associate Professor Isaac Cheah	Discipline Lead, Marketing
Associate Professor Amy Tian	Discipline Lead, People, Culture and Organisation
Professor Michael Volgger	Discipline Lead, Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Academic staff – Business Information Systems

Name	Title
Associate Professor Peter Dell	Deputy Head of School
Associate Professor Vidy Potdar	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Nik Thompson	Associate Professor, Discipline Lead
Dr Sharyn Curran	Senior Lecturer
Dr Torsten Reiners	Senior Lecturer
Dr Tomayess Issa	Senior Lecturer
Dr Danny Toohey	Senior Lecturer, Course Lead (Business Information Systems UG & PG)
Dr Michael Borck	Lecturer
Dr Adil Hammadi	Lecturer
Dr Shirlee-ann Knight	Lecturer
Dr S Zaung Nau	Senior Lecturer, Course Lead (Supply Chain Management UG & PG)
Dr Antony Mullins	Lecturer
Dr Maka Siwale	Lecturer
Dr Rohini Balapumi	Lecturer
Dr Sander Zwanenburg	Lecturer

Academic Staff – Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy and International Business

Name	Title
Professor Fran Ackermann	John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Discipline Lead
Associate Professor Bella Butler	Associate Professor, Course Lead (MIE, MIBE, MoM PG)
Associate Professor Htwe Htwe Thein	Associate Professor, Course Lead (International Business UG & PG)
Associate Professor Anton Klarin	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Stephen McKenna	Associate Professor
Dr Louis Geneste	Senior Lecturer, Course Lead (Management & Entrepreneurship UG)
Dr Farveh Farivar	Senior Lecturer
Dr Ben Thomas	Lecturer, Course Lead (Honours)
Dr Amalina Ibrahim	Lecturer, Acting Course Lead (International Business UG & PG) to July 2024
Dr Cathie Bowen	Lecturer
Dr Luisa Campos	Lecturer
Dr Shahid Ghauri	Lecturer
Dr Mike Burbridge	Lecturer

Academic staff – Marketing

Name	Title
Professor Ian Phau	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Professor Piyush Sharma	John Curtin Distinguished Professor
Professor Mohammed Quaddus	Professor
Associate Professor Isaac Cheah	Associate Professor, Discipline Lead & Honours Coordinator
Associate Professor Steve Dix	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Vanessa Quintal	Associate Professor
Professor Billy Sung	Professor, Director of Research
Associate Professor Min Teah	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Richard Oloruntoba	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Michael Baird	Associate Professor
Dr Luke Butcher	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Mingming Cheng	Associate Professor
Dr Amir Hossein Ansaripoor	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Elizabeth Jackson	Associate Professor
Dr Graham Ferguson	Senior Lecturer, Course Lead (Advertising)
Dr Aneeshta Gunness	Senior Lecturer
Dr Russel Kingshott	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sean Lee	Senior Lecturer
Dr Julie Napoli	Senior Lecturer
Dr Robyn Ouschan	Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor Fazlul Rabbanee	Senior Lecturer, Course Lead (Marketing PG)
Dr James Earnest	Lecturer
Dr Wesley Lim	Lecturer, Course Lead (Advertising)
Dr Marcela Moraes	Lecturer, Course Lead (Marketing UG & PG)
Dr Anwar Sadat Shimul	Senior Lecturer
Mr Patrick Duong	Associate Lecturer

Academic Staff – People, Culture and Organisations

Name	Title
Professor Julia Richardson	Professor – Head of School
Professor Kantha Dayaram	Professor
Associate Professor Stephen McKenna	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Amy Tian	Associate Professor, Discipline Lead
Associate Professor Scott Fitzgerald	Associate Professor
Associate Professor Katharina Wolf	Associate Professor, Course Lead (Public Relations)
Professor Jane Coffey	Professor
Dr Judy Esmond	Senior Lecturer
Dr Eileen Aitken-Fox	Director, MBA and DBA Programs
Dr Renee Ralph	Lecturer
Dr Jacqueline Boaks	Lecturer
Dr Alan Crake	Lecturer
Dr Sagi Kunju Kunju Mathew	Lecturer, Course Lead (Human Resource Mgmt UG & PG)
Dr Hossein Mohammadi	Senior Lecturer, Co-Course Lead (Human Resource Mgmt UG & PG)
Dr Sonia Raghav	Lecturer
Dr Sandra Martain	Lecturer, Co-Course Lead (Human Resource Mgmt UG & PG)
Dr Adam Andreotta	Lecturer
Mrs Bridget Tombleson	Lecturer, Clinical/Professional Fellow
Associate Professor Daniela Andrei	Associate Professor
Dr Tanya Muscat	Lecturer

Academic Staff – Tourism, Hospitality and Events

Name	Title
Professor Kirsten Holmes	Professor
Professor Christof Pforr	Professor
Associate Professor Michael Volgger	Professor, Discipline Lead (Tourism, Hospitality & Events)
Dr Tekle Shanka	Senior Lecturer
Dr Sean Lee	Senior Lecturer
Ms Ruth Taylor	Lecturer, Course Lead (Tourism, Hospitality and Events)
Professor Harald Pechlaner	Adjunct Professor
Professor Iis Tussyadiah	Adjunct Professor
Professor Marianna Sigala	Adjunct Professor
Associate Professor Huimin Tan	Adjunct Research Fellow
Mr Campbell Fletcher	Adjunct Professional Fellow
Dr Lesley Crowe-Delaney	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Xiumei Guo	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Mirjam Wiedemann	Adjunct Professional Fellow
Ms Catrin Allsop	Adjunct Professional Fellow

Academic Staff – Research

Name	Title
John Curtin Distinguished Professor John Phillimore	Executive Director, John Curtin Institute of Public Policy; Deputy Director, Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success
Professor Shamit Saggar	Executive Director, Australian Centre for Student Equity and Success

Adjunct staff

Name	Title
Professor Samir Chatterjee	Emeritus Professor
Professor Carolyn Dickie	Emeritus Professor
Professor Graham Pervan	Emeritus Professor
Professor Jane Ali-Knight	Adjunct Professor
Professor John Burgess	Adjunct Professor
Professor Ram Ramaseshan	Emeritus Professor
Associate Professor John Venable	Adjunct Research Fellow
Associate Professor Paul Alexander	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Garry Willinge	Adjunct Professor
Dr Siobhan Hatton-Jones	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Yathunanthan Sivarajah	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Paull Weber	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Brian von Konsky	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Philip Ely	Adjunct Research Fellow
Dr Lydia Maketo	Adjunct Research Fellow

Professional staff

Name	Title
Miss Claire Otway	School Business Manager
Ms Sarah Wong	Planning Coordinator, Learning and Teaching
Miss Cecilia Braun	Administrative Officer
Ms Bruna De Oliveira	Administrative Officer
Ms Katie Strickland	Administrative Officer
Mrs Ronnie Phillips	Administrative Officer
Mrs Erica Sims	Administrative Officer
Ms Vanessa Wharton	Administrative Officer
Ms Sharon Wong	Administrative Officer
Ms Wan Wui Goh	Administrative Officer
Mrs Jeannie Darmago	Teaching Support Officer
Mr Jolyon Forsyth	Teaching Support Officer
Ms Kim Searle	Teaching Support Officer