Phillip Adams, AO

Broadcaster, filmmaker, author, archaeologist, controversialist, social commentator and satirist, Phillip Adams was elected one of Australia’s 100 National Living Treasures. For almost 50 years his columns in major newspapers and magazines have provoked discussion and outrage. He is the author of over 20 books that have sold over a million copies.

Billed as the ‘godfather of the Australian film industry’, Adams’ many features include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie, Don’s Party and The Getting of Wisdom.

As a consultant to prime ministers and premiers, Adams played a key role in the establishment of the Australia Council, the Australian Film Development Corporation, the Australian Film Commission, the South Australian Film Corporation and the Australian Film Finance Corporation.

Adams is currently Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in Canberra. In 2009 Premier Rann appointed him Foundation Chairman of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation. His scores of board memberships have included Greenpeace, CARE Australia, the National Museum of Australia, Adelaide’s Festival of Ideas and Brisbane’s Ideas Festival.

Honours awarded to Adams include two Orders of Australia, the Senior ANZAC Fellowship, the Australian Humanist of the Year, the Republican of the Year 2005, the Golden Lion at Cannes, the Longford Award, a Walkley award, a UN Media prize, four Honorary Doctorates and the Responsibility in Journalism Award at New York University. In 2006 he received the Human Rights Medal from the Australian Government’s Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. In 2008 he was appointed an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Professor Murali Chandrashekaran

Murali Chandrashekaran lives in Sydney, Australia, to where he moved, from Cincinnati, in 2002, to work on research, teach the best students in the Asia-Pacific region, work on his tan, live by the beach, and play competitive cricket.  In addition to these activities, he is currently raising two daughters, pampering his wife by cooking everyday, is Professor of Marketing and Academic Director of the AGSM MBA Programs at the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales.  Prior to joining the faculty at UNSW, Murali was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati, where he was Professor of Marketing and the Ronald J. Dornoff Fellow of Teaching Excellence.

Murali earned his PhD in Marketing from Arizona State University and his B Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India.   His current research focuses on customer satisfaction, defection, and loyalty; consumer and managerial judgmental uncertainty; and the link between market-based firm assets and long-term shareholder value.  His research has appeared in leading marketing journals, and he is particularly chuffed that he has published his research in all the top five international marketing publications - Journal of Marketing, Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Consumer Research, and Journal of Consumer Psychology.  Murali conducts training programs in the area of strategy, decision making, and customer satisfaction, and has been a consultant in these areas for several multinational firms including Johnson & Johnson, Eli Lily, and Roche

Catherine Cusack

Catherine Cusack (Liberal) was elected to the NSW Legislative Council in 2003, and appointed to the Opposition frontbench as Shadow Minister for Juvenile Justice and Shadow Minister for Women. She has since held the Youth Affairs and Fair Trading portfolios and is currently Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability.

Prior to entering Parliament Catherine was the first female President of the NSW Young Liberals and served as a Ministerial Adviser in the Community Services, Education and Health portfolios in the Greiner-Fahey Governments. In the private sector she has experience as a public affairs adviser and operated her own successful speech-writing consultancy.

Catherine has a Bachelor of Economics (Social Science) from Sydney University where she also received an award for Labor History.

Dexter Dunphy

Dexter Dunphy is Emeritus Professor in the School of Management at the University of Technology Sydney, where was Distinguished Professor until March 2008. His main research and consulting interests are in corporate sustainability, the management of organisational change and human resource management. His research is published in over 90 articles and 24 books.

Dexter has consulted to over 160 private and public sector organisations in Australia and abroad. His consulting includes advising on major organisational transitions, design of human resource strategies and implementing sustainability practices.

Dexter holds the degrees of BA (Hons) M Ed (Hons) and Dip Ed from Sydney University and PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He is a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award the UNSW’ Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, the Australian Human Resources Institute’s Mike Pontifex Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Human Resources Profession and The Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management’s Distinguished Member Award. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the Australian Institute of Management, the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management and CPA Australia. In 2007 he was awarded an AM for service to education, particularly in the fields of organizational change, corporate sustainability and business management, and to the community.

Amy L. Kenworthy

Amy L. Kenworthy is an Associate Professor of Management in the School of Business at Bond University and Director of the Centre for Applied Research in Learning, Engagement, Andragogy and Pedagogy (LEAP). She has been a service-learning practitioner, author and consultant for over 18 years and has served as guest editor for special issues on service-learning in the Academy of Management Learning & Education, the International Journal of Case Method Research & Application, the Journal of Management Education and the International Journal of Organizational Analysis. Amy has published numerous articles in leading academic journals and has won teaching awards at the university, national and international levels. She is internationally known as one of the world’s leading experts in the domain of service-learning in management education. Amy has a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Noel Purcell

Dr Purcell retired from Westpac Banking Corporation in September 2008 after 23 years in the senior executive ranks. His achievements included developing and leading Westpac’s globally recognised corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability initiatives, managing the north Asian businesses, and leading its marketing and government, investor and other stakeholder communications functions. Prior to joining Westpac, he served at senior executive levels within the Federal Public Service within the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Office of National Assessments, and the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Noel now devotes his time to a range of non-executive director and advisory roles and to strategic consultancy in the areas of corporate governance, responsibility and sustainability. He currently sits on several boards and is the Chair of the Global Governing Board of the Caux Round Table. Noel’s sustainability and corporate governance achievements were recognised when he was included in Ethical Corporation’s 2007 Best of the Best as one of the top 15 ethical leaders globally.

Noel gained his PhD. and MSc from the University of Michigan.

Matthew Tukaki

Matthew Tukaki is the Head of Drake Australia and Regional Manager responsible for Drake International’s operations in Asia. Prior to this Matthew was the General Manager of Government and the Public Sector for Drake International.

Matthew is a member of the United Nations Global Compact Taskforce responsible for the establishment of Local Area Networks that support governance and corporate social responsibility in both developed and developing countries.

Matthew also provides advice to Members of Parliament on State and Federal workforce planning, skilled migration, skills reform and the design and development of new programs such as green jobs. Matthew also works closely with governments on indigenous employment.

Matthew has held the positions of Chairman of the Federal Chief Information Officers Council Chairman of the National Skills for Schools Foundation and was a member of the Australian Governments Consultative Committee for Knowledge Capital.

Matthew speaks widely on the subject of education and skills reform. Most recently he was a keynote speaker at the “Transforming Education in Indonesia”, Skilling the Future of Australia”, “Education Reform in Africa” and the “Global Knowledge Management” conferences.