2020 Australia New Zealand MBA Directors Forum
This year the program is being designed to feature innovations within MBA education from across the Australia, New Zealand, the US, Asia and Europe as well as highlight key industry trends impacting post graduate education, employability and career leadership programs, industry engagement, research, generational and experiential learning.
We welcome, keynote speakers:
Joseph North
Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin Australia and New Zealand
Joe North is an experienced program manager with a proven record of leading programs through meaningful change. In his most recent position, he was responsible for the execution and operational activities for all RMS contracts in Australia and New Zealand including future strategic planning.
Beginning his Lockheed Martin career as a program liaison director for the AEGIS program, Joe has over the past 30 years, provided an environment of innovation and entrepreneurship for employees, leading Lockheed Martin’s effort to build the nation’s first LCS, USS Freedom (LCS 1), which was delivered to the U.S. Navy in September 2008 and was deployed two years ahead of schedule. Mr. North continued to lead the Lockheed Martin LCS program, supporting new construction (15 ships), class services, sustainment and international efforts. In addition, Mr. North was responsible for the Launchers, Weapons and Control Systems business, which includes VLS, VLA and the control/automation systems for machinery and damage control.
Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla
Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) – University of New South Wales
Director of the Circular Economy Innovation Network, New South Wales
Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Professor Veena Sahajwalla is an internationally recognised materials scientist, engineer and inventor revolutionising recycling science. She is renowned for pioneering the high temperature transformation of waste in the production of a new generation of ‘green materials.’ In 2018 Veena launched the world’s first e-waste microfactory and in 2019 launched a plastics microfactory, a recycling technology breakthrough.
As the founding Director of the Centre for Sustainable Materials Research and Technology (SMaRT) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Veena is producing a new generation of green materials and products made entirely, or primarily, from waste. Veena also heads the ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for ‘green manufacturing’, a leading national research centre that works in collaboration with industry to ensure new recycling science is translated into real world environmental and economic benefits. In 2019 she was appointed inaugural Director of the Circular Economy Innovation Network by the NSW Government through its Office of Chief Scientist and Engineer. In 2018 she was elected as Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. In 2016, Veena was named one of Australia’s Most Innovative Engineers and in 2015, Veena named Australia’s 100 Most Influential Engineers, both by Engineers Australia. In 2013, Veena received the ‘Howe Memorial Lecture Award’, Pittsburgh, USA in appreciation for her lecture on ‘The Power of Steelmaking – harnessing high temperature reactions to transform waste into raw material resources’.
Dr Keith Suter
Since moving to Australia from London in 1973 at the age of 25, Dr Keith Suter has achieved three doctorates. The first of these was about the international law of guerrilla warfare (University of Sydney), and the second about the social and economic consequences of the arms race (Deakin University) and a third doctorate on scenario planning (Sydney University).
He has been appointed to many prestigious roles throughout his career, including Chairperson of the International Humanitarian Law Committee of Australian Red Cross (NSW), Chairperson of the International Commission of Jurists (NSW), Director of Studies at the International Law Association (Australian Branch) and Managing Director of the Global Directions think tank.
He is also an active member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and his activities include conducting monthly webcasts with business leaders. He frequently appears on radio and television discussing politics and international affairs.
Ulrich Hommel
Director – Quality Services Department
Director – Business School Development
Previous to his current positions, Ulrich was the Director of EFMD’s Research & Surveys Unit and, in this role, created the Annual EFMD Higher Education Research Conference.
Ulrich Hommel is a Professor of Finance at EBS Business School and heads the Chair
of Corporate Finance & Higher Education Finance. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics
from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and has been awarded the Habilitation in Business Administration at the WHU, Germany. His current research focuses mainly on corporate risk management as well as higher education management and financing. He has published more than 100 journal articles, books, edited volumes and contributions to edited works including articles in Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of Business Research, Annals of Operations Research, Venture Capital, Journal of Business Economics and the Journal of International Entrepreneurship.