Advisory Board

Professor Bijan Samali

Professor Bijan Samali is the current Head of Infrastructure and the Environment disciplines at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney and has a personal chair in Structural Engineering at UTS.  He is also the Director of Centre for Built Infrastructure Research at UTS. Professor Samali has published over 200 technical papers in engineering journals and conference proceedings.  His main research interests lie in the general area of structural dynamics including wind and earthquake engineering with special emphasis on structural control, dynamic measurement and analysis of buildings and bridges, and use of smart materials in engineering applications

Dr Jonathan Arthur
BSc (Hons I), PhD (University of Sydney) GAICD

Dr Jonathan Arthur is the CEO/Director of Sydney Bioinformatics and a Senior Lecturer in the Sydney Medical School at the University of Sydney. Prior to returning to the University of Sydney, he was Technical Learning and Development Manager (Informatics) and Senior Scientist at Proteome Systems Ltd, a Sydney-based biotechnology company.

Jonathan has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Sydney and postdoctoral experience in computational structural biology from a period of research at Fox Chase Cancer Centre in Philadelphia, USA.

He is a Graduate Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and has served on the board, or board-level committees, of a number of not-for-profit organisations including Bioinformatics Australia (where he served as President of the organisation) and the NSW Management Committee for AusBiotech.

Dr Mike Berrell
PhD (La Trobe University); MA (Lit&Comm) (Murdoch University); BEd (La Trobe University); DipTeach/TC (Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education)

Dr Mike Berrell is currently the Divisional Dean of Business and Information Technology at the Higher Colleges of Technology in the United Arab Emirates. Previously he was Academic Director of the Graduate School of Business at RMIT University and Professor of Work Organization. Mike was also head of the JCU Business School and Professor of Management at James Cook University. He consults widely in the Asian region on HRM, higher education management, international management, risk management and Chinese business for both private and public organizations. As an active academic, Mike has published extensively (with others), including the books ''International
Management: Managing in the Era of Globalization'' (Renmin University Press, 2002) and ''Business Networks and Strategic Alliances in China'' (Edward Elgar, 2007). Projects include work undertaken for IDP, UNESCO, UNEP and UNDP. In 1990-91, he was nominated by DEET as the Australian expert on International Education for a UNESCO Expert Panel.

Professor Michael Adams
BA(Hons) LLM (Lond), FCIS, FACE, FAAL

Professor Michael Adams is the Head of School, School of Law at the University of Western Sydney. He was previously the Perpetual Trustees Australia Professor of Financial Services Law and Professor of Corporate Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. His specialist areas are corporate law, financial services regulation, management law and corporate governance.
Michael holds a degree in business law, accounting and economics, as well as a master's degree in corporate law and intellectual property from University College, London. Michael is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries & Administrators [ICSA] and was the 2001 Australian President of Chartered Secretaries Australia. In 1998, he was appointed one of the Australian representatives on the ICSA International Council of Chartered Secretaries and serves on the ICSA Professional Standards Committee

Professor Philip Ogunbona

Philip was educated in Nigeria where he obtained the BSc(Hons)(1st Class) (Electronic and Electrical Engineering) from the University of Ife (now named Obafemi Awolowo University). He studied at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London and obtained the DIC and PhD for research conducted in the field of Image Processing.

He has had extensive experience in both academia and industry spanning more than 20 years. He joined the University of Wollongong,   in 1990 initially in the School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering. He later joined the Visual Information Processing Lab, Motorola Labs in Sydney where he became the foundation Manager of the Digital Media Collection and Management Lab,  He has published over 45 journal and conference papers. His current research interests include image and video processing, video surveillance, multimedia security and multimedia content management.  He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and member of the IEEE NSW Committee. He has also served as the Chair of the IEEE Joint Chapter of the Communications and Signal Processing.

In 2004, Philip returned to the University of Wollongong, School of Information Technology and Computer Science, where he is now Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Infomatics. He is also the Director of the Centre for Visual Information Processing and Content Management Research within the School.

Professor Stewart R. Clegg

Stewart R. Clegg completed a first degree at the University of Aston (1971) and a Doctorate at Bradford University (1974). Stewart is currently a Professor at the University of Technology, Sydney, and Director of ICAN Research (Innovative Collaborations, Alliances and Networks Research), a Key University Research Centre. He also holds Chairs at Aston University, University of Maastricht and Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He has published extensively in many journals and has contributed a large number of books to the literature, including the award-winning Handbook of Organization Studies (London: Sage, second edition 2006, co-edited with Cynthia Hardy, Walter Nord and Tom Lawrence). His most recent book is Managing and Organizations: an introduction to theory and practice (London: Sage, 2005, with Martin Kornberger and Tyrone Pitsis), and he has a number of volumes in press at present.

Professor Sam Blay

Professor Sam Blay is Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is also a former Dean of Law, University of Tasmania, Australia, a former Director of postgraduate programs in Law at the UTS.

Professor Blay obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ghana in 1978, and a Master of Laws in 1981 from the Australian  National University. He obtained his PhD in Law in the University of Tasmania in 1985. He was  offered a lectureship position in the Law faculty in Tasmania the same year, and by 1992 was appointed to the position of Associate Professor and Dean of the Law Faculty. In January 1996, Professor was appointed to a full Chair in the University of Tasmania and was later appointed as Professor of Law at the University of Technology, Sydney in October 1996.

Professor Blay is a specialist in international law and has received a number of awards and fellowships including a United Nations Fellowship in Geneva in 1988 and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship with the Max Planck Institute for  International Law in heidelberg, Germany (1992-3, 2003). He has published books and several articles in major international journals.