Mr Hugh Morgan, AC Hugh Morgan is CEO of First Charnock Pty Ltd. Previous positions held include Director of Marketing and Finance of North Broken Hill Ltd and Managing Director, then CEO, of Western Mining Corporation Ltd. He has served as a Director of Alcoa of Australia Ltd; a Director of Alcoa Inc; Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia; Non-Executive Board Member of the CSIRO; President and Senior VicePresident of the Minerals Council of Australia (formerly Australian Mining Industry Council); Vice-Chairman and Chairman of the International Council on Metals and the Environment; Executive Committee Member on the International Council on Mining and Metals; Member of the Executive Committee of the Australasian Mineral Industries Research Association; Chairman of the World Gold Council; and Member of the Earth Resources Development Council. Mr Morgan is a Member of the Anglo American plc Australian Advisory Board; Member of the Lafarge International Advisory Board; Honorary Member of the Business Council of Australia; Chairman of the Order of Australia Association Foundation Ltd; Trustee Emeritus of The Asia Society New York; Chairman Emeritus of the Asia Society AustralAsia Centre; and President of the National Gallery of Victoria Foundation.
Mr Rupert Myer, AM Rupert Myer is the Deputy Chairman of Myer Holdings Ltd, is a Director of AMCIL Ltd and the Chairman of Nuco Pty Ltd. Mr Myer serves as Chairman of the Australia Council. In addition, he serves as a member of the Felton Bequests Committee and as a board member of Jawun – Indigenous Corporate Partnerships, The Myer Foundation and The Australian International Cultural Foundation.
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Professor Nilss Olekalns Nilss Olekalns (BEc Hons, MEc, MA, PhD) is Professor of Economics. He was head of the Department of Economics at the University of Melbourne from 1 January 2007 to 1 July 2012, when he was appointed Deputy Dean (Faculty). He holds degrees from the University of Adelaide, the Australian National University, the University of Western Ontario and La Trobe University. Professor Olekalns has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, a guest lecturer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and an invited lecturer for the Australian and New Zealand School of Government. Professor Olekalns has published on a variety of macroeconomic topics including fiscal and monetary policies, exchange rates, output and inflation volatility, and interest rates. His papers have appeared in leading scholarly outlets such as The Journal of Political Economy, The Review of Economics and Statistics, The Journal of Macroeconomics, The Journal of International Money and Finance, the Southern Economic Journal and the Economic Record. He has also received numerous awards for his teaching including the inaugural Edward Wood Prize for Teaching Excellence. With Ben Bernanke he is co-author of the bestselling introductory macroeconomics textbook in Australia, Principles of Macroeconomics, now in its third edition. He also presents the online Principles of Macroeconomics subject through Coursera to over 20 000 students.
Dr James Riady James Riady is CEO of the Lippo Group of Companies, which is involved in banking, securities, hotels, property and property development, health care, multimedia, business publications and communications. Dr Riady is the founder and Chairman of the Pelita Harapan Educational Foundation, which operates two universities and 20 K–12 schools. Dr Riady is the Deputy Chairman of the Indonesian General Chamber of Commerce and
Industry (Kadin Indonesia), Foundation Member of the World Economic Forum, Switzerland and also a Member of the International Business Council. He was Ambassador at Large and Special Envoy of the President from 1988–2000 and a member of the Peoples’ Consultative Assembly (MPR) from 1988–2000, both in the Republic of Indonesia. Dr Riady was awarded the Australian Alumni Award for Entrepreneurship in 2008 by the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. He completed his Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Melbourne, and has received a Doctor Honoris Causa from both Ouachita Baptist University and La Trobe University.
Professor Graham Sewell (from 1 July) Graham Sewell (BSc (Hons), PhD) is professor of organisation studies and human resource management and Head of the Department of Management and Marketing. Before commencing at the Faculty of Business and Economics he was Professor and Chair in Organizational Behavior at Imperial College Business School, London. Graham has published extensively on the topics of workplace surveillance and teamwork and his work has appeared in leading management journals, including the Administrative Science Quarterly, the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management Studies, and Organization Studies. He also has extensive consulting experience with major Australian and multinational corporations. Professor Sewell is a senior editor of Organization Studies and has held visiting positions at the University of California’s Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses. From 2004 to 2005, he was the Ministerio de Educación y Ciensias de España visiting professor in the Departament di Economia y Empresa at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. His latest book, Technology and Organization: Essays in Honour of Joan Woodward (with Nelson Phillips and Dorothy Griffiths), was published by Emerald in 2010.