Belinda Robinson is Chief Executive and Director of Universities Australia, the peak body representing Australia’s 39 comprehensive universities, both nationally and internationally.
Belinda has been the chief executive of peak industry bodies for more than 12 years and has held a number of senior and senior executive positions within the federal Government, including almost a decade with the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet.
Belinda has a reputation for high-level public policy development and analysis, political advocacy, government and stakeholder engagement and has strong corporate governance, remuneration and sustainability expertise.
Belinda is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, has completed the Company Director Diploma, was selected to participate in the AICD Chairman’s Mentoring Program and has held board and advisory positions with a range of government and community groups.
John Bowers' career is divided into four phases. First, he was an accountant with Tubemakers of Australia, Newcastle Works, who provided the cadetship that allowed John to become one of the initial 1965 group of undergraduates at the University of Newcastle. While with Tubemakers John initiated and managed electronic data processing at the Newcastle Works. Following graduate study in industry economics at the University of Newcastle in 1974, and business economics in the United States in 1977-1980, John’s second career from 1980 was as a member of the Finance Faculty at the Australian Graduate School of Management. In 1987, just in time for the market crash, John began a third career as an investment strategy consultant, initially with Towers Perrin and later as Managing Director of Frank Russell in Australasia. A decade later, John moved to investment management, when he became CEO of Barclays Global Investors in Australia, and later the Global Head of Fixed Income for Barclays Global Investors, based in London and San Francisco. John retired in 2005, but still has an active interest in Australian investment research.
John is a graduate of The University of Newcastle, and of Harvard University. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst
Pofessor Lam Khin Yong is the Chief of Staff and Vice President (Research) at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). His past appointments include CEO of NTU Innovation from 2012-2013, Associate Provost for Graduate Education & Special Projects from 2008 to 2011 and the Chair of School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from 2006 to 2008. As Associate Provost, he had strategically grown NTU’s graduate programmes, including spearheading joint PhD programmes with top universities overseas.
Professor Lam has held many key academic, research and administrative appointments. These include his appointment as Founding Director of the Centre for Computational Mechanics and the NUS-MINDEF Underwater Shock Laboratory. In addition, he was the Program Director of the IHPC-MINDEF High Performance Computing Centre. He was also the Founding Executive Director of the Institute of High Performance Computing and the Founding Executive Director of the A*Star Graduate Academy.
As Executive Director of A*STAR Graduate Academy, he initiated PhD training collaborations between A*STAR and universities including NTU, NUS, Karolinska Institutet, Imperial College London, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Dundee, Carnegie Mellon University and University of Cambridge.
In addition, he held directorship positions in the then NSTB and A*Star Holding companies including as Director of ETPL Investment Pte Ltd and KRDL Holdings Pte Ltd. Professor Lam was also the Technical Advisor to Executive Chairman of ETPL, Program Advisor for the High Performance Computation Program at Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) and Deputy Director of SMA. He worked with the MD of A*Star and Executive Chairman of ETPL to set up the Managing Director Office and ETPL at A*Star.
Professor Lam has secured total research funding in excess of $250m, 3 granted patents and research output of over 270 papers in international refereed journals with a citation count of more than 6000 and H-index of 43. For his contributions to Computational Mechanics, he received National/University Awards from NUS and the then NSTB. He was also the first academic to lead a R&D Team to win the MINDEF Defence Technology Prize for contributions in Underwater Shock Technology.
He obtained his first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College and his Masters and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He also attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.
Given his extensive experience in pioneering and leadership roles, Professor Lam is instrumental in positioning NTU in the Campus for Research Excellence And Technological Enterprise (CREATE), an initiative under the National Research Foundation, which brings together world-class international research universities, corporations, Singapore-based universities and research institutions to collaborate and work together. He was involved in securing funding for the launch of the first NRF funded Corporate Lab with Rolls-Royce and more recently, for the NTU-ST Engineering Robotics ADVANCe Corporate Lab. He is currently a Member of the Tokyo Tech Advisory Board, Member of the Alstom International Science and Technology Committee, the Scientific Director of the Rolls-Royce@NTU Corporate Lab, the Co-Chair of the NTU-ST Engineering Corporate Lab Management Board, Co-Scientific Advisory Director for the TUM-CREATE Centre on Electromobility in Megacities, Executive Director of IPI Limited and Co-Chair of the Advanced Remanufacturing & Technology Centre of Singapore.
Omer is an accomplished and successful business leader with an exceptional record of achievement in educational, strategic and business outcomes in the public and higher education sectors. Currently the Director of Planning and Strategic Management at the Australian Catholic University, he leads the formation, implementation and continuous improvement of planning and strategic management services to enable the achievement of the university's vision and mission. He provides intelligence and support to the Vice-Chancellor, senior executive and governing committees on matters of strategic importance. He has previously held senior leadership roles with the Australian Government Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Department of Education and Training, University of New England, and Kaplan Business School.
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As Assistant Vice Chancellor, Jenny provides strategic oversight and co-ordination of the Strategy and Planning, Brand and Marketing Services and Student Services and Administration directorates.
From an academic role as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, Jenny moved to central administration of AUT in 2010. As Head of Strategy and Planning, Jenny leads the team responsible for development of the Strategic Plan, Investment Plan, Capital Asset Management Plan, AUT’s relationship with its Investment Manager from the Tertiary Education Commission, reporting on University performance, scanning the tertiary education environment nationally and internationally, forecasting students and enrolments, international rankings, benchmarking and other monitoring and analysis projects. The development of Business Intelligence and strategic reporting to the University and its stakeholders has become a key part of her responsibilities.
Jen Der Day is Dean in the Office of International Affairs, at the National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences. She is responsible for the international affairs and works with the senior management team at the strategic level to lead university. She received her Master of Computer Sciences from the Purdue University and Ph.D. of Business Studies at the University of Edinburgh respectively.
CloseDanny Wong Tze Ken is currently Director, Global Planning & Strategy Centre, University of Malaya. He is also Professor of History at the Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Malaya where he teaches history of Indochina and Southeast Asia. His research interests include history of Champa, Sabah and the Chinese in Malaysia. He was Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Integrated Area Studies, Kyoto University (2010), Visiting Scholar at Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2008), Visiting Lecturer at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1998) and Visiting Professor at the Asia-Europe Institute (2008-2011). Among his publications are: The Nguyen and Champa during 17th and 18th Century (2007), Historical Sabah: Community and Society (2004), The Transformation of an Immigrant Society: a Study of the Chinese of Sabah (1998) and Vietnam-Malaysia Relations during the Cold War (1995). He is also Director of the Institute of China Studies and Head of the Malaysian Chinese Research Centre, University of Malaya.
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Ms. Pamela Moss has worked in universities for nearly thirty years and has been the Director of the Planning and Quality Office (PQO) at the University of Auckland since 2004. The Office is within the Vice-Chancellor’s Office and leads and coordinates strategic and academic planning across the University. The Office is responsible for providing strategic and tactical information; developing and implementing key performance indicators that monitor the achievement of the Strategic Plan; monitoring and assessing the institution’s performance; student load forecasting processes; and internal and external reporting and quality assurance requirements. The Office ensures that the information produced is nuanced to provide intelligence which reflects the external policy environment and supports internal needs.
Pamela has been part of several phases of university administration including the initial move (in New Zealand at least) to fully decentralise student services but is very supportive of the recent moves to centralise a wide range of expert services that support strong faculty-based student interactions.
The University of Auckland was founded as a college of the University of New Zealand in 1882. The University is now the largest in New Zealand, with some 33,000 equivalent full-time students, proud of its diverse student body, comprehensive range of disciplines and its status as being in the top eight in Australasia.
Dr. Pitambar Gautam, Associate Professor at Creative Research Institution (CRIS) of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan, is currently engaged in analysis of research (for bibliometric indicators) and the university rankings. His primary responsibility is to assist the university executives, especially the Vice President for Research, by providing evidence-based data required for effective planning of the research strategy and globalization of university, and this is accomplished by team work with the university research administrators. Prior to joining CRIS in 2008, he served as the coordinator of a MEXT-sponsored 21st Century COE Program for “Neoscience of Natural History” in the same university and as a Lecturer in earth sciences at Tribhuvan University in Nepal (1983-2003). He has published some 50 papers on geoscience thanks to active collaboration with an international team of researchers dedicated to the Himalayas. Owing to the new role, however, he has developed interest towards measuring science: analysis of research performance, identifying research strengths at institutional, departmental and researcher levels as well as research benchmarking.
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With over 20 years’ working in the higher education sector, Tracey has wide ranging experience across many aspects of university management.
As Deputy Director of Planning and Performance Measurement at ANU, she oversees international rankings, institutional performance, student evaluations, strategic planning and competitor analysis.
Previous positions include Manager, Research Performance and Analysis and Faculty General Manager (Arts) at the University of Tasmania where she oversaw ten schools. Her extensive experience includes budget management, institutional performance improvement, strategic and operational planning, international recruitment and partnerships, policy development, benchmarking and leading an institutional submission for ERA. She has also spent time at some of the top institutions in the world, including Harvard and Oxford, investigating operational practices.
She holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and has held various elected appointments to Boards and Committees, including State Chair of the Association for Tertiary Education Managers and member of the QS Ranking Advisory Board. She has also presented at numerous international and national conferences on institutional performance improvement and informed decision-making.
Ms Tricia Brand is the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Services and Resources Division at James Cook University, the University’s Chief Financial Officer and a member of the University Executive and the Vice Chancellor’s Advisory Committee.
Tricia is a Director of a number of companies, including:
Paul Duldig joined the University of Melbourne as Head of University Services in June 2014. Previously, Paul was Vice President Services and Resources at the University of Adelaide.
As Head of University Services, Paul leads a new team with a vital institution-wide role delivering services to faculties and graduate schools and the Chancellery. University Services works closely with colleagues across campus to support research, industry and commercialisation; external relations and recruitment; academic services; finance and employee services; procurement services; infrastructure operations; systems and project delivery; legal, governance and risk; and business intelligence and reporting.
Paul brings to the University of Melbourne an extensive awareness of the opportunities and challenges offered by deregulation in the digital age. He also brings a rounded education background with a Masters in Economics and Professional Certificate in Art History.
Ms Natalie MacDonald commenced in the role of Vice-President (Administration) in September 2012 and comes to La Trobe from her previous role as the Director-General of the Queensland Government’s Department of Housing and Public Works.
The Vice-President (Administration) has responsibilities for ICT, systems and process improvement; Student Services & Administration; Residential & Business Services; Human Resources; Infrastructure & Operations; Business Planning & Reporting; Legal Services & Governance; Marketing; Finance; Community Engagement and Sport.
Ms MacDonald has extensive experience in leading the delivery of corporate services, information services, building and design, accommodation, maintenance, facilities management and procurement services and the delivery of government services across wide geographical areas. She has served on a number of Commonwealth and State bodies and not-for-profit, superannuation and research boards.
Natalie is the Chairperson of the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC) and a Board Member of Higher Education Services (HES).
In August 2014, Sara Watts became the inaugural Vice-Principal (Operations) for the University of Sydney. In her current role, she has responsibility for five key operational units: Campus Infrastructure and Services (CIS), Finance, HR, ICT, and the University’s EPMO. Before joining the University, Sara was the Chief Financial Officer for IBM Australia/New Zealand.
Outside of the University, Sara sits on the board of Vision Australia, and chairs the Audit Committee of the Victorian Auditor General’s Office. Her qualifications include a BSc (Sydney), MBA (MGSM), FCPA and GAICD.
Alison Lloyd is Director of Institutional Research and Planning at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Working closely with senior management, she leads a unit that is responsible for strategic planning, performance monitoring, institutional research, and analytics. In addition, she oversees the University’s participation in international rankings.
She was previously Associate Dean (External Relations and Development) of the Faculty of Business at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She led internationalisation, the branding and marketing of all programmes, student development and alumni relations. The Faculty of Business is one of the largest business schools in the Asian region. During her tenure as Associate Dean she spearheaded a number of international strategic alliances. She has been an award-winning educator at the University and her research interests lie in branding, retailing, and services marketing. Her work has been published in notable academic publications including Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Services Marketing, Tourism Management and others.
Prior to joining The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Alison worked as a Management Consultant with Deloitte and later moved on to being Principal Consultant in a business consulting firm in Hong Kong. She has previously worked on consulting engagements in the areas of strategy consulting, business process review and improvement, design and implementation of corporate performance management frameworks and change management for both private and public sector organizations in Hong Kong and Asia.
Alison serves on a number of advisory boards and steering committees including the Hong Kong Brand Development Council, and The Investor Education Centre. She is a Director of the Fair Trade Hong Kong Foundation. She is an editorial board member of the Journal of Services Marketing.
Associate Professor Anne Young leads a team that is responsible for coordinating strategic planning and KPIs, business intelligence, reporting and analytics, quality assurance, institutional surveys and research and enrolment planning. Anne has a PhD in statistics, is on the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency Expert Register and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Anne has many years experience as a teaching and research academic in statistics and epidemiology, with a research focus on longitudinal studies and record linkage. Anne has a strong interest in using both quantitative and qualitative data to support evidence-based decision making and continuous improvement, particularly in relation to improving student retention and success. She established the Australian Network of University Planners (ANUP) with her peers in 2012 to facilitate benchmarking and discussion of topical issues and to highlight the expertise within the group to support and contribute to policy discussions, institutional research and evaluation of strategies.
In a career spanning more than two decades, Sharon’s passion for people and organisational change has seen her work for a number of organisations in a range of interesting roles. She has been involved in mergers, acquisitions, shaping talent strategy and leading significant organisational change within a number of large Australian and global organisations including OneSteel, BHP and Orica. In addition to the many interesting HR roles and projects in which she has delivered significant outcomes, the development highlight of her career was spending two years leading an IT team of 200 staff for global mining and manufacturing company, Arrium as their Chief Information Officer.
Approximately two and a half years ago Sharon joined the University of Newcastle as Director People and Workforce Strategy. She is greatly enjoying the challenge of shaping the human resources function within the complex and rapidly changing higher education sector.
Sharon is an alumni of the University of Newcastle with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) as well as a Masters of Business Administration from Herriot Watt University, UK.
After undertaking post-doctoral research at the University of Hull (UK), where he obtained his PhD Degree in Plant Biology, Webb embarked on a career in university administration in 1983. He worked at two of the University of London Medical Schools for twelve years before joining the University of Aberdeen in 1995. He has developed a keen interest and gained substantial experience in the quality assurance of teaching and learning and in developing student services and academic administration, which have been major components of his various roles since 1990.
Dr. Webb was seconded from his post as Academic Registrar at the University of Aberdeen to the post of Assistant Secretary-General (Quality Assurance) at the Hong Kong University Grants Committee in 2007. His primary role was to co-ordinate the academic quality audits of UGC-funded institutions following establishment of the Quality Assurance Council (QAC). He served as Audit Co-ordinator for the first-cycle audits of CUHK, HKBU and HKU before moving to Cairo in 2009, as Registrar of the British University in Egypt. He returned to Hong Kong in 2012 as Director, University Planning Office at CUHK before joining HKUST in July 2013. He has also served as an Auditor for a QAC second-cycle audit.
Michael Fung is the Group Director (Policy) and Chief Data Officer at the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA). He oversees the strategic and resource planning functions, and is accountable for policy setting and implementation of national initiatives such as SkillsFuture. He also oversees the data governance, management, and reporting practices at WDA.
Michael is concurrently Senior Advisor to the Office of the President at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), drawing on his experience in strategic and academic planning, assessment of institutional effectiveness, and international rankings.
He is the Founding Chair of the Higher Education Planning in Asia Network, a Pacific Regional Council member of the Society for College and University Planning, a member of the Association for Institutional Research, and a registered international consultant with the Asia-Pacific Quality Network. He serves on the Carnegie Mellon University Admissions Council, and was a Council member of the English Schools Foundation Clear Water Bay School in Hong Kong.
He is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon University in the US and Tsinghua University in China, and a doctoral student at the University of Southern California.
Dafydd joined the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) as Manager for University Investment in December 2013, and is responsible for managing and overseeing the New Zealand University funding portfolio.
Prior to joining the TEC, Dafydd held a number of senior management positions in policy and research, which include Group Manager for Labour Market Dynamics, General Manager for Accident Compensation and Director, International Policy at the Department of Labour and Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment.
Dafydd has worked in a wide range of socio-economic policy areas which include tertiary education, employment and skills, international policy and trade, business growth, economic inclusion and housing, sector innovation, knowledge economy and urban & rural development policy.
He also has experience of working in a range of international policy areas, which include the ILO, APEC, UNHCR, OECD, and European Union; and also leading labour co-operative activities and negotiations in China, Japan, Hong Kong and the Philippines under New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Land Economy and a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the University of Plymouth, UK.
Richelle Hilton is the current chair of the Australian Network of University Planners (ANUP) and is the Director of Planning & Performance at The Australian National University. She has worked in a variety of strategic planning, performance and analytics roles in the Australian Higher Education sector for over 15 years. She has a passion for building analytical literacy and establishing processes that embed data informed decision making in order to improve the overall performance and quality of our institutions and support continuous improvement initiatives. She is interested in exploring the opportunity improved access to more unstructured data presents the sector in supporting early intervention strategies, underpinning interactive learning analytics and producing predictive analytics to underpin performance evaluation and organisational planning processes.
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Martin Hanlon is Director of the Planning and Quality Unit at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. In this role, Martin leads a unit responsible for coordinating the university’s strategic planning and student load planning, performance reporting and analysis, student and stakeholder surveys, compliance reporting, data governance and participation in university rankings.
During his time at UTS, Martin has contributed to the broader higher education sector by co-authoring various international publications and presenting at conferences in the field of institutional research. He is currently a Deputy Chair of the Australian Network of University Planners (ANUP) and has also chaired an annual conference of the Australasian Association for Institutional Research (AAIR).
Martin has over fifteen years of combined experience heading corporate planning and reporting teams, including his prior role as Director of Corporate Planning and Performance at the NSW Environment Protection Authority, Australia.
Martin has an interest in not-for-profit organisations and is currently a non-Executive Director of Ruach Ministries, Australia.
Bhupinder is Director in the Office of the President, at the National University of Singapore. He is responsible for the planning portfolio and works with the senior management team at the strategic level to lead university–wide initiatives relating to strategic planning, finance and IT. Prior to this, Bhupinder was with the Office of the Provost and the Dean’s Office of the School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore. He received his Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and University of Manchester respectively.
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Bruce is a Chartered Accountant and has held senior finance roles in the aviation and fast moving consumer goods industries. In the public sector he has held senior management and planning roles in the New Zealand health sector and now in tertiary education.
The Office of the Registrar provides support to the governance functions of the University and is responsible for strategic planning, risk management, emergency management and statutory compliance including official information, privacy and records management.