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Neal M. Ashkanasy OAM, PhD is an Emeritus Professor of Management at the UQ Business School at the University of Queensland in Australia. He came to academe in after an 18-year career in water resources engineering. He received his PhD in social/organizational psychology from the same university. His research is in leadership, organizational culture, ethics, and emotions in organizations, and his work has been published in leading journals including the Academy of Management Journal and Review, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. He is Associate Editor for Emotion Review and Series Co-Editor of Research on Emotion in Organizations. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Organizational Behavior and Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Review and Academy of Management Learning and Education. Prof. Ashkanasy is a Fellow of the Academy for the Social Sciences in the UK (AcSS) and Australia (ASSA); the Association for Psychological Science (APS); the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP); Southern Management Association (SMA), and the Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences (QAAS). In 2017, he was awarded a Medal in the Order of Australia.

Micheal holds the position of Senior Lecturer (Business Information Systems) in the UQ Business School, University of Queensland (UQ), and acts in the role of Deputy Director Teaching & Learning (Commerce Suite of Programs) for the UQ Business School.

Micheal is an experienced IS professional and accountant (FCPA of CPA Australia) with fifteen years’ experience in the area of IS consulting. This experience and career includes the evaluation of IS projects, IS audit and IT management and governance. Micheal’s published research is in the areas of the use of intelligent decision aids, Information Systems (IS) audit, and Information Technology (IT) governance. Prior to receiving his PhD, Micheal chaired the IT & Management Centre of Excellence for CPA Australia. Professionally, Micheal is a Fellow of CPA Australia and a member of the Australian Computer Society, ISACA, the Association for Information Systems, and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand.

Micheal has more than 15 years industry experience as a Director in an IS consulting practice with public, private, and community sector organizations as clients. He has significant experience in facilitating development programs, and currently teaches into the UQ Master of Business Administration program, the Master of Business, the Master of Business Analytics, and the Master of Commerce program at UQ. Micheal’s professional experience as an accountant, as a Director in the area of IS Consulting, and IS research expertise provides a strong foundation for delivering engaging educational programs and business-relevant research at the UQ Business School.

Karen Benson is the Director of the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at The University of Queensland. She has held a number of leadership roles at UQ, including Deputy Head of School 2016-2017, Director of Accreditation 2015-2017, and Head of Finance Discipline 2010-2015 in the UQ Business School. Karen was also Deputy President of UQ Academic Board 2018-2019.

Karen's research interests include socially responsible investment, social impact bonds, and student engagement in active learning. Her research has been well received by both practitioners and academics. Karen's work is published in internationally refereed journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, and Journal of Business Ethics.

Peter Clarkson undertakes research and teaching in both accounting and finance. His current research interests encompass issues relating to voluntary disclosure (both of a financial and a non-financial nature), company performance and valuation, and the economic implications of environmental performance. His work has been published in academic journals including The Accounting Review (TAR), Journal of Accounting and Economics (JAE), Contemporary Accounting Research (CAR), Accounting, Organisations and Society (AOS), Journal of Accounting and Public Policy (JAAP), Abacus, Journal of Finance (JF), and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA)., as well as in professional periodicals. He is currently an Editor of Contemporary Accounting Research and Associate Editor for Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of International Accounting Research, and Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics.

Dr Truc (Peter) Do joined UQ Business School after having graduated from Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has also been a visiting scholar at London Business School. His primary research lies in financial accounting domain. His is particularly interested in examining how cultural norms and peer interaction affect corporate outcomes, especially corporate information flow. He is also interested in examining the importance of business sustainability and employee welfare. He has published in Journal of Accounting and Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, and Accounting & Finance. He has also been regularly invited to serve as referees for Contemporary Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, British Accounting Review, Accounting & Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Accounting and Business Research, Australian Accounting Review (on behalf of CPA Australia), Pacific Accounting Review (where he was recognised with Outstanding Reviewer Award), etc. His research works have also been featured at many conferences around the world, including American Accounting Association (AAA) Conference, European Accounting Association (EAA) Congress, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, MIT Accounting Conference, Japanese Accounting Review Conference, Financial Research Network (FIRN) Conference, Vietnam International Conference in Finance and Chinese Accounting Professors' Association of North America (CAPANA) Conference. His research has also received media mention in the FinReg Blog (run by Duke University). He has been awarded various research grants by AFAANZ (Developing Researcher Grant) and CPA (Global Perspectives Research Programme). He is also the winner of the AFAANZ section of the InSPiR2eS Global Pitching Research Competition (IGPRC) (2021). He has been awarded Researcher Excellence Award (Early Career) and Excellence in Developing the Accounting Discipline by UQ Business School in 2022. He currently teaches Financial Accounting at the Masters' level. He is a Chartered Accountant (CA).

Dr Terry Fitzsimmons is an Associate Professor in Leadership with the University of Queensland Business School. He is also a Chartered Accountant with over 35 years of practice. He is the Managing Director of the Australian Gender Equality Council (AGEC), a body whose members currently comprise 24 peak national bodies representing over 400,000 women across industry sectors in Australia. He also sits on the advisory board of Women and Leadership Australia and the board of the Abbey Museum.of Art and Archeology.

His PhD in Leadership examined successful attributes of CEOs and differing pathways to CEO roles for men and women. In June 2015 Dr Fitzsimmons and Professor Callan released ‘Filling the Pool’ a major report into gender inequality in Western Australia and what government, organisations and individuals can do to address the issue. Dr Fitzsimmons makes extensive use of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and his framework for the examination of persistent intergenerational societal disparity. The concepts of field, capital, habitus and symbolic violence feature heavily in the studies into gender inequality conducted to date. In 2019, working with the Alliance of Girls Schools Australasia, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released the 'Hands Up for Gender Equality' report examining gender stereotypes, confidence, leadership and career preferences for 10,000 students in the highest matriculating schools in Queensland.

In 2020, in partnership with the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released the 'Employer of Choice for Gender Equality' report detailing leading practices for driving workplace gender equality based upon detailed examination of 5 years longitudinal data provided by the 120 WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation holders. The report is written as a best practice guide for employers who wish to improve the retention and progression of women in their workplace.

In 2021, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Australian Gender Equality Council, Dr Fitzsimmons with Dr Yates and Professor Callan, released 'Towards Board Gender Parity: Lessons form the past: Directions for the future.' The report explores how, despite significant gender inequality in Australian workplaces, Australia has become one of only three countries in the world to reach 30%+ women on its top 200 listed public company boards.

Dr Fitzsimmons has worked with many of Australia’s largest firms on their diversity programs and speaks regularly in Australia and overseas in the area of gender equality and inclusion. He has served as national and state presidents of not for profit bodies as well as having been a being a director on boards of Listed Public Companies in Australia and overseas.

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Stephen Gray is the Malcolm Broomhead Chair in Finance at UQ Business School.

He is an active consultant and researcher in the areas of valuation, cost of capital, corporate financial strategy, financial modeling, financial risk management, and the creation of shareholder value.

He is well known for his work on empirical finance, asset-pricing and corporate finance which has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals. Stephen teaches a range of award and executive education courses in financial management, asset valuation, and corporate finance at UQ Business School, and has been recognised by the Prime Minister’s Award for University Teacher of the Year in the Economics, Business and Related Studies field.

He has Honours degrees in Commerce and Law from the University of Queensland and a PhD in financial economics from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

He is an active consultant to industry on issues relating to valuation, cost of capital, corporate financial strategy, financial modeling, financial risk management and the creation of shareholder value. He is frequently engaged as an expert on financial, valuation, regulatory and competition matters in court proceedings.

Dr. Guix researches how tourism and hospitality organizations approach change to integrate sustainability considerations and report on their progress for external accountability. Her work focuses on corporate social responsibility and grand challenges such as modern slavery and climate change.

She worked on projects funded by the European Union, the United Nations Environmental Program, and the Inter-American Development Bank to run life and online stakeholder consultations for sustainable tourism policy and assess industry disclosure and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr. Guix regularly publishes in top academic journals, including Tourism Management, Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, and International Journal of Hospitality Management.

Kathleen Herbohn is a Professor in financial accounting. She has a PhD from the University of Adelaide concerned with full cost environmental accounting by organisations managing multiple purpose natural resources. Kathleen's research is concerned with corporate social responsibility for issues such as climate change and tax transparency with a focus on how public data can be used in debt and equity markets to inform stakeholders about organisational performance. Her other research interests include the role of financial accounting in informing capital markets in areas of ambiguity (e.g. impairment, business and operating risk, biological assets) and the accounting profession.

Kathleen's publications have appeared in various journal including Accounting, Organizations and Society, The Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, The Journal of Business Ethics, Accounting and Finance Journal, The British Accounting Review, Accounting Research Journal and The Australian Accounting Review. She is also a co-author on the twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth editions of the Issues in Financial Accounting textbook and an editor of a book published by Edward Elgar (Cheltenham, UK) on Sustainable Small-Scale Forestry: Socio-Economic Analysis.

Kathleen is currently a member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Australian Accounting Standards Board and an Associate Editor of the Australian Accounting Review.

Grace teaches in the areas of financial accounting and auditing. Her main research interests include corporate disclosure, accounting policy choice and capital market research. She is particularly interested in voluntary disclosure practices and their capital market impact under the Australian continuous disclosure regime. She is currently working on projects examining issues related to continuous disclosure, management and analysts’ earnings forecasts, company disclosure related to the Australian Equivalent of International Financial Reporting Standards (A-IFRS), financial reporting quality, and fund disclosures in the Australian superannuation industry.

Robyn’s teaching expertise is in management accounting at the introductory, advanced and post graduate levels. Her research interests include management control system design and use, with a particular interest in health care settings. Robyn’s prior work focussed on how management control system design varies with ownership of health care organisations. More recently the focus has shifted to management control system design and use in innovative organisations and not for profit settings. In conducting her research Robyn has worked closely with a number of Queensland hospital and health services, the Australian Association of Practice Management and privately held health care businesses.

Nadeem is an Associate Professor of Accounting and the Co-lead of the Business Sustainability Initiative (BSI) research hub at the University of Queensland (UQ) Business School. Prior to joining UQ, Nadeem held academic positions at the University of Otago and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Nadeem's research interests are interdisciplinary, encompassing corporate governance structures, corporate social and environmental responsibility, and financial and non-financial disclosures, including climate change disclosures. His work on these topics has been published in high-quality journals (ABDC A*, ABS/AJG4, and FT50) such as The British Accounting Review, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, and Corporate Governance: An International Review, among others. His research findings and commentaries have also been featured in several media outlets (e.g., The Conversation, Newsroom) and have received multiple Best Paper Awards at international conferences, including the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) and the Corporate Governance SIG of the European Academy of Management (EURAM) conference. Additionally, he has won several other awards, including the Best Emerging Researcher award.

Nadeem is frequently invited by international universities to present research seminars, and he has delivered keynote speeches at several international conferences. He has also organized multiple international conferences. Nadeem often interacts with standard-setting bodies, including the External Reporting Board (XRB) in New Zealand and the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), through research forums and by moderating/facilitating forum sessions. As part of his service to the academic community, Nadeem regularly reviews papers for top-ranked journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals, such as Meditari Accountancy Research (Associate Editor) and the Journal of Intellectual Capital (Editorial Advisory Board member).

Nadeem primarily teaches accounting courses, including Sustainability Accounting and Reporting, Cost and Management Accounting, and Advanced Management Accounting, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has supervised five PhD students to completion and accepts new supervisees in his areas of interest. His PhD graduates hold key faculty positions at international universities. He has served as an examiner of several PhD theses.

Nadeem enjoys serving in leadership roles and has held several academic leadership positions during his career, including co-lead of the BSI research hub at UQ, Deputy Associate Dean of Postgraduate Programs, and Director of the Master of Professional Accounting degree at Otago.

Nadeem is a member of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) and the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ).

Learn more about his research at the following links:

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Dr Tan is an Associate Professor in Finance at the UQ Business School.

Dr Tan has earned a reputation as a researcher with expertise in capital structure and econometrics. His work has been published in leading academic and practitioner journals, such as Organization Science (Financial Times Top-50 Journal list, and UTD-24), Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Nature Profolio's Scientific Reports. Five of his papers have also been named as the Best Papers at the following five conferences: (1) the Asian Finance Association Conference, (2) the European Real Estate Society Conference, (3) the Western Risk and Insurance Conference; (4) the 6th Behavioural Finance Conference; and (5) the 4th International Conferences on Advances in Business & Law. In addition, he was recently awarded the 2016 Early Career Researcher Excellence in Research Award by the UQ Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, and the 2017 Award for Excellence in Research by the UQ Business School.

Dr Tan teaches FINM3403 International Financial Management and FINM7402 Corporate Finance at UQ Business School, and was recently awarded the Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in 2013 and the Commendation for Postgraduate Teaching in 2017. Besides being an inspiring teaching instructor, Dr Tan is also a great research mentor for junior faculty and Ph.D. students. Dr Tan is particularly proud of all of his Ph.D. students, because all of them had at least one chapter of their theses published in an A* journal (ABDC ranked) and/or received at least a research award before their Ph.D. graduation. In addition, his current first-year PhD students have also been awarded a few numerous best paper awards at various prestigious international conferences. In recognition of his contribution to research supervision, he was awarded two research supervision awards in 2020: (1) the UQ Business School Award for Excellence in PhD Supervision; and (2) the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law (BEL) Award for Excellence in Higher Degree Research (HDR) Supervision.

His research has been featured in UQ News and over 100 media outlets across the globe, such as Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, 7News, ABC Radio, Yahoo News, International Business Times, MedicalXpress etc. As of 2022 June, his research was ranked in the Top 0.2% of all research outputs (21,383,946) ever tracked by Altmetric. In recognition of his contribution to cross-disciplinary research, he was awarded the Cross-Discipline Research Award by the UQ Business School in 2022.

In terms of service and engagement within the UQ Business School (UQBS), Dr Tan is the Honours Program Leader, who also sits on the UQBS Research Committee and UQBS Education Committee. Dr Tan was a Postgraduate Coordinator for the finance Ph.D. program between 2017 and 2020. Outside UQBS, Dr Tan serves as a Vice President (membership) and a board member for the Asian Finance Association, which is one of the top finance associations in Asia. Dr Tan is currently serving as a Deputy Editor at the Accounting and Finance Journal (ABDC "A" ranked Journal) and a Guest Editor for Pacific-Basin Finance Journal (A) and Accounting and Finance (A). Dr Tan also served as an Associate Editor at the Accounting Research Journal between 2018 and 2021.

His research interests focus on corporate finance, capital structure, and labor economics.

Dr Michael Turner

Senior Lecturer in Accounting

Program Convenor, Bachelor of Advanced Business (Honours)

Dr Michael Turner is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at the University of Queensland, where he currently serves as the Program Convenor for the Bachelor of Advanced Business with Honours. He holds a PhD in Accounting, a Bachelor of Business (First Class Honours), and a Graduate Certificate in Research Management. Prior to joining the University of Queensland, Michael held various academic and research positions, including a prestigious Australian Postgraduate Award during his PhD studies.

His research focuses on strategic management accounting, corporate disclosure, ethical decision-making, and the integration of advanced technologies in accounting education. His work has been widely published, with nearly 30 journal articles to date, including 23 papers in Australian Business Dean's Council (ABDC) A* and A-ranked journals. His research has made significant contributions to understanding how management control systems influence organisational decision-making and performance.

Michael’s teaching centres around innovative methods in accounting education, particularly in strategic management accounting and capital budgeting. He has played a pivotal role in curriculum development, ensuring that students gain both the technical skills and the critical thinking abilities required to excel in the field of accounting. As Program Convenor, Michael is leading a comprehensive program review in 2024, focused on introducing more work-integrated learning, providing improved cohort experiences, and making the program more distinctive. His leadership has been marked by a strong focus on creativity, excellence, and inclusivity, preparing students for the evolving demands of the business world.

In addition to his academic achievements, Michael has successfully secured numerous research grants, including external funding from prestigious organisations such as Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), the German Research Foundation, and the Australian Accounting Standards Board (AASB), with grants totalling over $150,000. His industry collaborations and contributions to applied research further demonstrate his ability to bridge the gap between academia and practice.

Michael is actively involved in the academic community, serving as an editorial board member for Meditari Accountancy Research, Advances in Accounting Education, and Advances in Management Accounting, and as a reviewer for several leading journals. His commitment to academic integrity and research excellence is reflected in his contributions to these publications. Beyond research and teaching, Michael engages with the broader business community, contributing to industry-focused platforms and providing thought leadership on key issues in accounting.

Dr Elizabeth Yushu Zhu is a Senior Lecturer in UQ Business School She obtained her PhD from Australian National University in 2010. Elizabeth's research investigates empirical finance topics in corporate finance & governance, entrepreneurial finance (including crowdfunding), and banking. Her publications have appeared in various high-rated academic journals such as Journal of Corporate Finance, Abacus, Accounting & Finance, Australian Journal of Management, China Economic Review, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. She has supervised PhD students who are engaged in various research in the field of finance, including asset pricing, corporate finance, climate finance, among others.