The University of Sydney Business School

Majid Abdi is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of International Business at the University of Sydney Business School. He earned his PhD in Strategic Management from the Schulich School of Business in Toronto, Canada. His research interests encompass the institutional environment and firm strategy, governance of interfirm relationships, organizational learning and performance aspirations, and quantitative research methods. Dr. Abdi's work has been published in theJournal of International Business Studies,Journal of Management,Journal of Management Studies,Journal of International Marketing, andBest Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management. His work received the Robert J. Litschert Best Student Paper Award from the Strategy Division of the Academy of Management and was a finalist for both the Barry M. Richman Best Dissertation Award from the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award from the Academy of International Business.

Associate Professor Dr Akhtar's research interests are broad, and include: Governance, ESG, AI/ML, Financial and Cyber-crime, Corporate Finance (Share market and Bond market), Multinationals, Tax, M&A, International Finance, Innovation, Superannuation/Pension systems, Banking, Risk Management, Behavioural Finance, Cross-Cultural & Indigenous Studies, Islamic Finance and Higher Education. Her research publications have appeared in leading international and local journals. Dr Akhtar has received a number of competitive external research grants, with total funding in excess of 1.7 million dollars. She was a recipient of an ARC DECRA Fellowship. Her research has been acknowledged by the Australian-US Fulbright and Oxford Fellowship. Her research has been instrumental in policy and regulatory space especially in Bond, Tax and international trade. She has been invited several times by the Australian Federal Parliament to serve as Expert Witness on critical local and international policy matters. She is an active researcher and presents her work regularly at international and Australian conferences including the American Finance Association Conference. A number of her research papers received local and international prestigious awards. She has engaged in invited research visits to several top US Universities, including Harvard, MIT and Stanford among others.

Dr Akhtar has a broad teaching portfolio encompassing both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. She also supervises Honours, Masters and PhD students. She has been awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Award for Teaching Excellence and also the "Top Supervisor" Award.

Sultana Lubna Alam is an Associate Professor of Digital Transformation and AI Mangement. Her research interest sits at the intersection of digital transformation, digital technologies and the societal impact of digitalisation for organisations and social good. She is an inter-disciplinary researcher with expertise in socio-technical studies and predominantly uses qualitative methods such as focus groups, interviews, co-design and actional design research to examine use practices and value co-creation with digital technology. Her research has been published in ranked journals such as Information Systems Research, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology and People, and Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. Dr. Alam also contributes to the academic community as an Associate Editor for leading journals such as Communications of the AIS and Senior Editor for Australian Journal of Information Systems. Lubna is the treasurer of ACPHIS (Australian Council for Professors and Heads of Information Systems), the peak body IS professors in Australia. A recipient of 2011 Vice-Chancellor's Excellence Award for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning and 2016 Dean’s Emerging Researcher award, she has contributed on several industry panels, consultation reports and is regularly invited for social issue commentary on TV, radio & the print media.

Beyond academia, Lubna was an appointed member of the ACT Government Ministerial Advisory Council for Multiculturism and founded the award-winning non-profit organisation ALO Enlightened Women Inc., a voice for migrant women in the ACT. For her advocacy on gender equality and DEI, she was awarded with the 2023 ACT Government Outstanding Excellence Award in Diversity and Inclusion and was a finalist for the 2024 ACT Woman of the Year Award.

Dr Nurul Alam is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Accounting, Governance and Regulation at The University of Sydney Business School. His research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to big data in accounting, with a particular interest in credit risk and corporate distress prediction, financial accounting, and corporate finance.

Dr Alam completed his PhD at The University of Sydney Business School, where he investigated the relative power of machine learning and traditional semi-parametric survival models using accounting, market, market microstructure, and derivative instrument data to predict U.S. corporate bankruptcies. His work also contributed a novel deep learning framework for panel data applications. His research has been published in leading journals, including International Review of Financial Analysis, Accounting & Finance, Abacus, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money.

Dr Alam is an award-winning educator whose teaching excellence has been recognised through more than twenty awards, including the Dean’s Citation for Teaching (Merit), Dean’s Citation for Tutoring, Dean’s Award for Tutoring, and multiple nominations for the Wayne Lonergan Award for Teaching Excellence across the Accounting and Business Analytics disciplines. He has also received multiple nominations for Excellence in Research at the Business School. Dr Alam is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), reflecting his commitment to excellence in teaching and learning.

Dr Alam holds a Master of Commerce with a double major in Finance and Accounting from The University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialisation in Finance and Banking from University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. Prior to his current appointment, he held various academic roles at the Business School, including Tutor, Casual Lecturer, Course Coordinator, Teaching Fellow, Nominated Academic, and Research Assistant on several high-profile ARC projects.

BA (Hons) AdMU; MBA ESCP Europe; PhD Sydney; GradCertEdStudies Sydney; GradDipTrainHRM Leicester

Sandra Alday is an Associate Professor at the University of Sydney Business School. Extending her experience in international strategy and organisation development consulting, her scholarly research explores the nature of risk, how it is perceived and communicated, and how it is managed. She also investigates the impact of risk management approaches on equity and sustainability particularly in Southeast Asian contexts. Because pathways to sustainable futures require different ways of thinking and doing, she further examines how learning experiences can transform the way people and organisations think about risk and sustainability. 

Sandra is Deputy Director (Partnerships) of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre (SSEAC) at the University of Sydney and Program Director of the Master of Management and Master of Management (CEMS) programs at the University of Sydney Business School. She is Vice President of the Academy of International Business Sustainability Interest Group (AIB SIG), Past President of the Society for Risk Analysis-Australia and New Zealand (SRA-ANZ), and Past Councillor of the international Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management Education (JME) and a member of the Management and Organizational Behavior Teaching Society (MOBTS) Oceania Committee. Committed to excellence and innovation in higher education, Sandra is a recipient of an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Malmi Amadoru is a lecturer in Business Information Systems at The University of Sydney Business School. She obtained her PhD in Information Systems at the Queensland University of Technology. Malmi won the second runner-up of the ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award and the ACPHIS PhD Medal for her dissertation in 2022. Before joining the University of Sydney, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at HEC Montreal.

Malmi is a researcher at the intersection of digital technology, discourse, and society. Her work investigates how the narratives, debates, moral emotions, and meaning-making processes surrounding emerging digital technologies shape the trajectories of their diffusion and ultimately, how they are adopted, rejected, or transformed within organisations and society at large. She also examines the role of autonomous AI agents in shaping online discourse, exploring how human and algorithmic actors co-construct meaning, influence collective behaviour, and contribute to the emergence of new social orders within online communities. To explore these questions, Malmi brings together computational and qualitative methods in a creative and rigorous combination that enables both large-scale analysis and deep theoretical insight. She is at the forefront of computationally intensive theory construction and is well recognised as an expert in the information systems community, pushing the boundaries of how scholars develop theory using computational methods.

Malmi's research agenda spans three interrelated areas: (1) discursive processes of technology diffusion, (2) the role of social media and autonomous AI agents in shaping discourses, and (3) computational approaches to IS/management research. Her work appears in prestigious journals such as the Information Systems Journal and conferences such as the International Conference on Information Systems and the Academy of Management.

MA, PhD (Cambridge)

Eddie Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Decision Sciences and previously held the position of Associate Dean (Research) and Associate Dean (Research Education) at the University of Sydney Business School. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2008, he was at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales. Eddie has an honours degree in Mathematics from Cambridge, and a PhD in Operations Management, also from the University of Cambridge. He now also has a position on the faculty at Imperial College Business School in London.

Eddie is known for work in energy, optimization; scheduling theory and game theory. He has wide ranging interests in supply chains, particularly in relation to contracts and risk. Much of his research involves the application of these ideas in energy markets. He was the Area Editor for Energy at the journal Operations Research from 2012-2017. Risk management has been a focus of Eddie’s teaching and in 2014 he published an advanced text with Wiley: “Business Risk Management: Models and Analysis”.

Eddie has published 78 papers in international academic journals. Google Scholar shows that he has 5800 career citations and an h-index of 39. Fourteen students have successfully completed PhDs under his supervision.

Eddie has held a succession of academic leadership roles: Associate Dean Research, AGSM, UNSW 2002-2004; Acting Dean AGSM 2006; Postgraduate Associate Dean Faculty of Business, UNSW 2006-2008; and Chair, Discipline of Business Analytics, Sydney University 2008-2013.

Dr Vicki Andonopoulos is currently a Lecturer in the Discipline of Marketing at The University of Sydney Business School. She obtained her PhD and Honours (Class 1) from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Vicki's research uses experimental design to examine the cross-section between psychology of consumer behavior and social media marketing strategies. She has a particular interest in authenticity on social media and leveraging online customer input to generate innovation opportunities.

BCom (Hons) W'gong; PhD, W'gong; FCPA

Jane Andrew is an internationally recognised accounting scholar whose research examines how accounting shapes public policy, governance, and social accountability. Her work explores how accounting influences decisions about equity, justice, and sustainability, with projects spanning carbon accounting, prison privatisation, immigration detention, aged care, and data governance.

Jane has published more than fifty refereed journal articles in leading international journals including Accounting, Organizations and Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, and Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal. She is currently a Chief Investigator on an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant investigating organisational disclosure practices following data breaches.

Since 2018, Jane has served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Critical Perspectives on Accounting and as Associate Editor for Abacus. She teaches financial accounting and sustainability-focused postgraduate courses and supervises several PhD students. Jane is a Fellow of CPA Australia, and a member of the Sydney Institute of Criminology, and the Imprisonment Observatory.

Dr Lova Andriamora is an education-focused Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney Business School. Since 2022, he has been teaching and coordinating BUSS5221 (Creative and Analytic Mindset), a core unit of the Master of Commerce program, which enrols between 1,800 and 2,000 students in Semester 2. He also coordinates WORK6130 (Leadership in Organisations).

Dr Andriamora earned his doctorate from Central Queensland University in 2014. He also holds multiple qualifications, including a Master of Business with a specialisation in Human Resource Development, a Master of Human Services Management with a focus on Policy Development, a Certificate in Teaching from the University of Hong Kong, and a Graduate Certificate in Tertiary Education from the University of Sydney.

BEc(Hons), PhD Sydney

Dr. Christina I. Anthony is a lecturer and consumer psychologist in the Discipline of Marketing at the University of Sydney Business School. She received her PhD in Marketing and a Bachelor of Economics with Honours (Class I and the University Medal) from the University of Sydney and was awarded an ARC Discovery Grant Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her research has been published in leading UTD24/FT50 journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, and has been featured in major media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, BBC News, NBC News, the Australian Financial Review, the Sydney Morning Herald, The Atlantic, SBS World News, Channel 7 News, ABC News, 7:30 Report and 2UE Radio. Christina teaches Consumer Behaviour and has received awards for her teaching excellence, including the Dean’s Award for Teaching.

Dr Christina Anthony is an expert in consumer behaviour and the psychology of how people think, feel, and behave in social and marketplace contexts. Her research explores the emotional, motivational, and social factors that shape decision-making, interpersonal interactions, and everyday consumer behaviour, such as how people engage and respond to deception, manage emotions, or make judgments and choices in marketplaces.

Marketplace deception and lying

Christina studies marketplace deception and the psychology of lying, with a focus on "the lies consumers tell". Using experimental methods, her research explores when and why consumers lie, how deception shapes thoughts, feelings, and decisions, and how people respond when they are deceived. She also examines the consequences of deception for outcomes such as satisfaction, memory, and relationships. Her work spans a range of contexts, from negotiations, retail, and online interactions to broader social settings, including interpersonal relationships and digital environments. By examining these emotional and cognitive processes, her research advances understanding of the psychological mechanisms underlying deception and decision-making in both consumer and social contexts.

Emotions, motivation, and goal pursuit

Christina is also interested in how people manage their emotions, stay motivated, and pursue goals across social and marketplace contexts. She examines relationship dynamics and emotion regulation during interpersonal exchanges, and how these processes influence decision-making and behaviour in everyday interactions, including contexts such as gambling and social media.

Broader impact

Through this work, Christina seeks to uncover the mechanisms that drive behaviour in both social and marketplace settings, with implications for improving social, financial, and emotional wellbeing in consumer and interpersonal interactions.

Keywords: consumer behaviour, decision-making, emotions, emotion regulation, motivation, social influence, relationship dynamics, marketplace deception, lying, trust, gambling behaviour, social media.

Lisa is a market system, food, retailing, and supermarket expert, who does applied research bridging academia and industry. Her industry focus of markets-as-networks within retailing for consumption, means her research intersects with retail, commercialisation (marketing), micro-economics, public policy, and law, as she prioritises social impact. The themes which fall within this are competition, strategy, sustainability, innovation, store brands, stakeholders, B2B, and markets-as-networks (industry).

As one of the few Māori (or First Nations) marketing and commercialisation scholars in ANZ, Lisa integrates her indigneous philosophy, cultural knowledge, and understanding to influence her research and teaching. This includes incorporating this to improve social and environmental sustainability, modern diets, and sustainable innovation. In teaching this translates to embedding cultural respect and curiosity beyond what we see so that we can grow.

Lisa also brings a wealth of industry experience from the food, grocery, and broader retail industry, having spent ~20 years in various commercial roles from a junior analyst to senior leadership, in leading multinational organisations, regional food production, and startups. She has worked and engaged with all grocery retailers across both ANZ, and most non-supermarket majors retailers and channels in ANZ.

B.HlthSci (Hons Class I; University Medal) Sydney; PhD Sydney
Lecturer in Work & Organisations: Healthy, Sustainable & Inclusive Work

Dr Mina Askovic is a Lecturer in Work & Organisations, with a focus on healthy, sustainable and inclusive work. Her research examines how work can be designed to foster individual, team and organisational thriving, with a particular focus on healthcare and essential service contexts. An advocate for evidence-based practice, Mina's interests lie in translating academic research into practical insights that help leaders and organisations make better people-related decisions.

Before joining WOS, Mina worked as a Senior Research Consultant for SEC Newgate, one of Australia's most sought-after firms for public affairs, strategic communications, stakeholder engagement and market/social research. In this role, Mina leveraged her research expertise to provide strategic recommendations to clients.

Mina holds a Bachelors degree in Health Science (Behavioural and Social Science in Health, Hons I) and a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research focused on corporate volunteering programs with a focus on how organisations can design initiatives that create value for multiple stakeholders.

📍 Room: 4156, Abercrombie Building (H70)
📧 Email: mina.askovic@sydney.edu.au

Dr Angelo Aspris (BCom (Hons) Phd Sydney)  is an Assistant Professor (Senior Lecturer) at the University of Sydney.

He is recognised as a leading authority at the intersection of financial market architecture, corporate strategy, and the emerging frontier of digital assets. His extensive body of research provides critical insights into the mechanics of capital markets, examining the forces that shape liquidity, efficiency, and fairness. His work extends from the core of traditional equity and fixed-income markets to pioneering analyses of cryptocurrency exchanges and Decentralised Finance (DeFi). This intellectual agenda is complemented by a distinguished teaching portfolio in Financial Valuation and Management, where he translates complex financial theory into applied, actionable knowledge for undergraduate, postgraduate students, and MBA candidates. As a respected research supervisor and public commentator, Dr. Aspris is a pivotal voice in shaping both the future of finance and the next generation of its leaders.

Dr Aspris has published over 15-internationally peer-reviewed articles and recieved multiple external grants. He is a respected research degree supervisor having overseen 4 PhD, 1 Master of Philosophy, and over 20 honours graduate theses. 

I'm a political economist working at the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion at Work, in the School of Work and Organisational Studies at the University of Sydney. At the Centre I am researching barriers to women's career progression in male-dominated industries. 

In 2025 I finished my PhD in the Discipline of Political Economy at the University of Sydney where I identified the drivers of wage suppression in the Australian meat processing industry since the mid-1980s. I was inspired by applied political economy and applied economics class analyses coming out of the 1970s (Harry Braverman, Jill Rubery, Frank Wilkinson) and classical Marxist theories of capitalist competition (Anwar Shaikh, Howard Botwinick, Dick Bryan). I analysed a wide range of industry, firm, wages and enterprise agreement data to identify structural changes to the bargaining power of workers and employers in the meat industry resulting from shifts in competition between firms, the labour process, and the supply of labour.

My research interests include analysis of the structures that facilitate the existence of low-paid work, the future of work, and the effective communication of visual data. In a previous life I was a researcher in pain medicine at the University of Sydney.

Marian Baird AO is Professor of Gender and Employment Relations and Co-Director of the Sydney Employment Relations Research Group in the University of Sydney Business School. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia.

Marian is a leading researcher in the fields of industrial relations, women, work and care. Her research focuses on policy responses at all levels, including government, business and unions. She has a long history of policy engagement on gender equitable organisational change, flexible work, women and leadership, paid family and domestic violence leave and reproductive support policies. Through her career as an engaged researcher, she has worked with federal and state government departments, organisations, unions and not-for-profits to improve the position for women in the workforce and society. Marian has contributed to the development of government and company policies on maternity and parental leaves, flexibility, discrimination and the ageing workforce. Her pathbreaking research on paid parental leave contributed to the introduction of Australia's paid Parental Leave Scheme in 2010. In 2022-23, she advised the Australian Government on extensions and changes to the Scheme.

Currently, she is a Chief Investigator on the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) and leader of the mature workers and care stream. Other current research projects include the female body@work project, women's economic empowerment and workplace violence in female dominated sectors. Marian is an Expert Panel Member of the Fair Work Commission, appointed in March 2023. She is a member of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations' Parent Advisory Group to improve the economic security of Australian parents, appointed in 2024.

As the first female professor in industrial relations at the University of Sydney, Marian has developed the next generation of researchers and policymakers in her teaching of industrial relations policy and strategic human resource management and as a supervisor of 13 PhD students. She received the SUPRA Supervisor of the Year Award in 2022

Marian's work is widely published and she is co-author of Human Resource Management (published by Cengage), Australia's leading text book in the field. Marian contributes to the discipline internationally as a Coordinator of the International Network of Leave Policies and Research and the International Labour and Employment Relations Association (ILERA) Gender and Employment Study Group. She has been a visiting scholar at the University of Alberta, MIT, Michigan State University, University of Nottingham, Leeds University Business School and Queen Mary University of London Business School.

In 2016 Marian was awarded an AO (Officer of the Order of Australia) for outstanding services to improving the quality of women's working lives and for contributions to tertiary education. Other awards include the Best Paper Award at AIRAANZ 2023, the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association Award in 2021, the AIRAANZ Lifetime Service Award in 2020, and being named in Apolitical's Top 100 Most Influential People in Gender Equality list in 2019 and 2018. In 2014 she received the Edna Ryan Award for making positive change for women in the workforce, in 2013 she received the AFR/Westpac Women of Influence Award in Public Policy, and in 2015 and 2003 she won the University of Sydney Business School's most engaged researcher awards.

Dr Max Baker is a Professor and the Research Director of the Discipline of Accounting, Regulation and Governance at the University of Sydney Business School. Before his academic career, Max worked as an accountant and auditor for PwC and Macquarie Bank. Since being awarded his PhD, Max has developed, taught and coordinated a range of accounting and business subjects. His research focuses on corporate social responsibility, prison reform and Big Data. Max has published extensively in top-tier academic journals and serves on the editorial board of Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, Critical Perspectives on Accounting and Accounting and Business Research and is an Associate Editor of ABACUS. In 2022, Max won an ARC discovery grant to study the data breach disclosure rules and practices in Australian companies. The policy recommendation report based on this research is available at (DOI: https://hdl.handle.net/2123/32980).

MSc Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; PhD Sydney

Camila Balbontin is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS). In February 2018, she completed her PhD under the supervision of Professor David Hensher where she focused on integrating decision heuristics and behavioural refinements into travel choice models. She was awarded the ITLS prize for Research Excellence in Transport or Logistics 2017. Camila also holds a bachelor degree in the field of Civil Engineering with a diploma in Industrial Engineering and in Transportation and Logistics from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. She did her MSc degree at the same university under the supervision of Professor Juan de Dios Ortúzar. Her MSc thesis estimated the valuation of households and neighbourhood attributes in the centre of Santiago.

As a Postgraduate Research Fellow, her main focus is choice modelling and travel behaviour. She is currently working on projects related to the BRT Centre of Excellence, business location decisions, hybrid modelling, value uplift, among others.

BA(Hons) PhD

Robert Bartels currently works at the School of Business Analytics and Marketing, University of Sydney. Robert does research in Econometrics, Energy Economics and Statistics.

Matthew has a Bachelor of Economics (Hons), Master of Philosophy (Marketing) and Doctor of Philosophy (Transport Economics) from the University of Sydney. He a rare academic polymath, equally adept at teaching, research, program level curriculum design and innovation, and in governance and leadership roles having held several since the start of his academic career (where he moved from PhD graduate to full professor in eight years).

Matthew's research focus includes the impact of COVID-19 on travel activity and behaviour, understanding decision making processes for infrastructure investment decisions, pricing of infrastructure assets (particularly road pricing), modelling the interactions of multiple decision makers, the role of the built environment in route and residential choice, the impact of time on decision making, as well as the impact of uncertainty, variability, and disruption on transport behaviour. He is fundamentally interested in human decision making and choice behaviour. Matthew has published in many leading journals and actively consults across of range of industries. This practical experience combined with his innovative teaching methods make Matthew one of the consistently highest ranked lecturers in the Business School. In the rare periods when not working, you might find him working on his real objective: becoming the number one golfer in transportation and logistics field.

He has diverse teaching experience, ranging from tutoring marketing subjects as an undergraduate, and assisting to manage the Discipline of Marketing as a postgraduate student. He has developed and teaches quantitative and economic analysis units for the Master of Management / CEMS (the number one ranked program in Australia and 8th in the world), the MBA (ranked number one in Australia). He has developed units in infrastructure economics, infrastructure financing and decision making on mega-projects. He more recently began teaching in the field of supply chain planning and design. He has consulted extensively with government and private industry in developing the curriculum that is responsive to market needs.

BA Cantab, MSc, PhD, FIHT, FICE, FTRF, MCILT

Michael Bell is the Professor of Ports and Maritime Logistics in the Institute of Transport and Logistics. Prior to his commencement at the University of Sydney in August 2012, he was Professor of Transport Operations and Director of the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC) at Imperial College London. Having graduated in 1975 from Cambridge University with a BA in Economics, he obtained an MSc in Transportation (1976) and a PhD on Freight Distribution (1981), both from Leeds University. Between 1979 and 1982 he worked as a Research Associate at University College London, before moving to the Institut für Verkehrswesen at the Technical University of Karlsruhe as an Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral Research Fellow. He returned to the UK in 1984 to a New Blood lectureship at the University of Newcastle. In 1992 he became the Deputy Director of the Transport Operations Research Group (TORG), becoming its Director in 1996, when he was also promoted to a Personal Chair. In January 2002, he moved to Imperial College London. His research and teaching interests are catholic, spanning ports and maritime logistics, transport network modelling, traffic engineering, and intelligent transport systems. He is the author of many papers, a number of books (including Transportation Network Analysis, published in 2007) and was for 17 years an Associate Editor of Transportation Research B. In 2005 he founded the Port Operations Research and Technology Centre (PORTeC), a virtual centre spanning both Civil Engineering and the Business School dedicated to research and consultancy in the field of ports and maritime logistics.

Emanuela Benincasa joined the University of Sydney Business School as a Lecturer in Finance in 2025. Her research focuses on questions in banking and corporate finance, with topics primarily in environmental, social, and climate finance. She received her PhD in Finance from the Swiss Finance Institute and the University of Zurich. 

My research projects involve building solutions for practitioners in collaboration with industry and government. I focus on two key areas: applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and modern slavery risk management (MSRM). My AI-related projects involve designing solutions for predictive analytics as well as applications of large language models across different industry sectors. My research on MSRM has involved a close collaboration with the NSW Office of the Anti-Slavery Commissioner and the development of an inherent risk identification tool for procurement teams in the public sector (Due diligence and reporting | Communities and Justice). Some of my research lies at the intersection of AI and MSRM. I serve as a senior associate editor for International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (ABDC ranking: A).

I teach two core units of study in the Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management program, one focussing on systems (ITLS6010) and the other on sustainability (ITLS6202). I also run a micro-credential on AI for supply chain professionals (Data Science and AI for Supply Chain Management - The University of Sydney Business School). The micro-credential was developed with funding from the NSW government and is delivered in collaboration with GS1 Australia.

Paul is a teaching focused academic in the Department of Accounting, Governance and Regulation in the Business School. His research interests are in education, applying various aspects of cognitive load theory (the basis of his PhD thesis). His teaching interests are in management accounting and data analytics for accounting.

MSc RUG PhD Delft

Michiel joined the University of Sydney as Professor and Chair in Transport Network Modelling in early 2012. Before moving to Australia he was Associate Professor in Transport Planning at Delft University of Technology, and worked as a consultant at Goudappel Coffeng, the largest transport and traffic consultancy in the Netherlands. Michiel is the Discipline Lead for Logistics & Supply Chain Management in the School of International Business, Logistics and Supply Chains. Further, he is a member of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies, which is the Commonwealth Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management.

Michiel studied Econometrics and Operations Research at the University of Groningen (the Netherlands), with a one-year study visit at Brown University (USA), and was awarded a MSc degree (cum laude) in 1996. In 2001 he received a PhD degree in transport planning and traffic engineering at Delft University of Technology for his work on the topic of multiclass dynamic traffic assignment.

Michiel has published over 200 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, books, and conference proceedings. He is Associate Editor of Transportation Research Part C and the Journal of Choice Modelling. He is an affiliate of the Choice Modelling Centre at the University of Leeds and the Erasmus University Rotterdam, a member of the Scientific International Advisory Committee of the Dynamic Traffic Assignment Symposium, and a member of the International Association on Travel Behaviour Research. In 2017 Michiel was the recipient of the Business School Excellence in Research Award. In addition, in 2018 Michiel founded the Transport Research Association for NSW, which organises an annual symposium with presentations from research students from the Univeristy of Sydney, UNSW, UTS, and the University of Wollongong. He is also Director of the Travel Choice Simulation Laboratory and the Future Transport Research Group.

Michiel has been successful in obtaining grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO) with respect to two large road pricing studies, as well as nine grants from the Australian Research Council on various topics, including Discovery Projects, Linkage Projects, and LIEF. He received funding from the Australian Data Research Commons to develop and integrate transport planning and simulation tools PLANit and MATSim in the Australian Transport Research Cloud. Michiel works actively with governments and industry partners to bring scientific innovations to practice. He has advised governments in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium regarding their transport model systems, has developed several traffic assignment and simulation models and algorithms implemented in the OmniTRANS and AIMSUN software tools, and is co-developer of the Ngene software for generating experimental designs for stated choice surveys.