School of International Business, Logistics and Supply Chains

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Boulis is an Associate Lecturer in the Discipline of International Business. Prior to joining the University of Sydney, Joseph founded and ran a successful management consulting business for several years. Preceding the launch of the management consulting company, Joseph worked in various roles across a number of large corporates, locally, regionally and globally.

Joseph's experience includes technology, strategy, marketing, project management, accounting, startups and entrepreneurial activities. His interests lie at the intersection of technology, internationalisation, business and the emergence of new organisation types.

Lucy Budd is Professor of Transport Management at Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, UK. Lucy obtained her BA in Geography from University College London and her MSc and PhD, also in Geography, from Loughborough University in the UK. She has published widely in the area of aviation policy and operations, has written over 100 journal articles and book chapters and edited 14 books on subjects including urban logistics, sustainable transport and aviation. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of Research in Transportation Business and Management (Elsevier) and founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Transport and Sustainability (Emerald). She sits on the Editorial Board of a further 5 transport journals and is also the founding co-Editor of the Contemporary Issues in Air Transport book series (Elsevier).

BA, BSocSci (Hons) NUS; MITCL Macquarie; PhD Sydney; FHEA

Dr CS Connie Chan has been teaching International Business at the University of Sydney Business School since 2014. She brings alternative perspectives, problem-solving skills and international experience to enrich her research and educational work. 
CS Chan is a Fellow of the Academy of Higher Education and has received awards for tutoring and lecturing in IBUS course units, along with student nominations for the Wayne Lonergan award (outstanding teaching) in 2018 and 2023.
Prior to entering academia, CS was a senior analyst based in Singapore covering economic development and international relations. Her former roles involved project management and leadership training. CS gained corporate management experience in technology, communications, retail and community services sectors since moving to Australia 20 years ago.

D.Sc. (Tech.); M.Sc. (Tech.); B.Sc. (Tech.) Aalto University

Dr. Zeerim Cheung is a Lecturer in International Business at the School of International Business, Logistics, and Supply Chains, the University of Sydney Business School. He holds a doctoral degree in Strategy from Aalto University in Finland.

His research focuses on strategy and the relationship between firms and states, such as corporate political strategies, state-owned enterprises, and social movements. He also has broad methodological interests, including historical methods, qualitative comparative analysis, and topic modeling. Zeerim is a co-organizer of the History in Management and Organization Research seminar (HiMOS) series.

Zeerim’s research has been published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Organization Studies. His conference papers have been selected twice for the Academy of Management Annual Meeting Best Paper Proceedings. He has also been a finalist for the Douglas Nigh Award in the International Management Division of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business Best Research Methods Paper Award.

Geoffrey is a Senior Lecturer in Transport and Logistics Management and holds a Bachelor of Economics with first class Honours in Economic Statistics from the University of Queensland and a PhD from the University of Sydney. Geoffrey began teaching at the University of Queensland in 1998 and has held a number of roles in the Institute of Transport and Logistics within the University of Sydney Business School since 2004. Prior to joining ITLS, Geoffrey worked for three years at the Reserve Bank of Australia.

Geoffrey is the Program Director for the Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management with responsibility for the academic development and quality assurance of the Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MLSCM) as well as the Graduate Diploma and Graduate Certificate in Logistics and Supply Chain Management. He co-ordinates units across transport, infrastructure, logistics and supply chain management and has also taught management business education, specialising in economics and quantitative analysis.

As a consultant, Geoffrey has worked with the aviation, maritime, logistics, rail, taxi and bus industries as well as governments both within Australia and internationally. His consultation work has included the transport needs of diverse groups such as major sporting events, hotels and charities as well as reform of public transport networks and the development of bus rapid transit systems. Geoffrey regularly speaks on issues in transport, infrastructure, logistics and supply chain management both within the media and public speaking roles.

Andrew is a Senior Lecturer in Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), and discipline coordinator for the Global Logistics specialisation in the Master of Commerce. He obtained first class honours in a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) / Bachelor of Arts (Philosophy). For his PhD research, he was awarded the prestigious Eric Pas Dissertation Prize by the International Association for Travel Behaviour Research. Andrew has broad research interests, with a particular focus on the behavioural influences of decision makers in the fields of logistics, supply chain management, and transport.

Andrew's research includes understanding the decisions of practising supply chain managers, including their evaluation of supplier sustainability performance, and consideration of supplier base diversification as a risk mitigation strategy. He is also interested in the decisions of consumers as they select alternative logistics services. Andrew has made methodological contributions, in the areas of discrete choice modelling, choice heuristics, and stated choice experimental design. His publication record includes top tier journals such as Transportation Research Parts A, B and E, Transportation, Information and Management, and the Journal of Travel Research.

Andrew has taught a range of units since 2010. He is currently teaching ITLS5250 Foundation in Global Logistics, which introduces students studying Global Logistics within the Master of Commerce to the full gamut of logistics and supply chain management concepts. He particularly enjoys teaching the highly topical ITLS6015 Managing Supply Chain Disruption, as there is a constant stream of disruptions and risks facing modern supply chains. Previous teaching has included ITLS6002 Supply Chain Planning and Design, BUSS7904 Advanced Quantitative Methods, and the five day course on Discrete Choice Analysis taught by ITLS to academics, PhD students, consultants and government employees from a wide range of disciplines, including marketing, health economics, environmental economics, and transportation.

As discipline coordinator for the Global Logistics specialisation in the Master of Commerce, Andrew promotes the specialisation, and advises students on both their current studies, and their future careers. In addition to his academic pursuits, Andrew has consulted for government, industry and banks, in the areas of transport infrastructure demand modelling, and freight transport. Andrew is a co-developer of Ngene, the leading software package for generating experimental designs for discrete choice experiments.

Peter Creeden is a seasoned global supply chain executive and Managing Director of MPC International, bringing over a quarter-century of industry leadership. Before establishing MPC International, he had a 22-year career with Hamburg Sud.

A staunch champion for supply chain innovation, Peter actively contributes to various digital standard associations. He adds academic rigour to his professional expertise as an adjunct senior lecturer at the Australian Maritime College and a Senior Industry Fellow at RMIT's Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation. Peter was also recently appointed as an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of Sydney’s International Transport & Logistics School (ITLS).

In 2019, Peter leveraged his industry insights to establish MPC International Pty Ltd, a leading strategic advisory firm delivering expertise in corporate governance, digital transformations, and AI compatibility roadmaps. As a seasoned strategic advisor, he is helping companies, small & large, navigate the future of the port and supply chain industry.

BBus (Hons1m) UTS, MPhil Cantab, PhD Sydney

Christopher Day is passionate about lifting Australia’s economic complexity by better harnessing our research and resources to capture a greater share of global value chains. He has advised on the development of innovation and industrial policies in the United Kingdom, United States and Australia. Chris completed his PhD titled 'Home and Away: Understanding and Capturing Industrial Value within the Modern Economy' under the supervision of professors Rico Merkert and Bo Nielsen at the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies having graduated with an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and university medal from the University of Technology Sydney.

BA Oxf. MTM, EMPA Syd.

Matt Faber’s subject matter knowledge, industry relationships and practical wisdom have been accrued over 30 years in the Australian transport sector. Matt is known for his hands-on leadership of transit, roads, interchange and active transport initiatives through planning, development and delivery, with and for government agencies and local councils. Matt has been proudly associated with the Institute of Transport Logistics Studies since embarking on the Master of Transport Management program in 1993; in 1994 he was awarded the Chartered Institute of Transport Prize for Best First Year Student. Matt currently supports the Institute as a guest lecturer to Transport and Infrastructure Foundations students.

Much of Matt’s work has been in an urban growth environment where dynamic land use change, and major transport projects, create both the pressure and the opportunity to provide local access in new ways that detach urban growth from car dependence. Recent and current projects for all three levels of government in Australia include preparing transport content for a national infrastructure audit (for Infrastructure Australia in 2019), leading passenger transport business cases (for Transport for NSW, the former NSW Roads & Maritime Services and The Hills Shire Council) and developing place-based transport plans at different scales (e.g., for Nepean Hospital, Castle Hill and Parramatta centres, and the Liverpool to Western Sydney Airport corridor).

In roles with the NSW Government Transport cluster Matt led Future Transport 2056 planning for light rail, bus, point-to-point and ferry products, and drove the Western Sydney T-ways, Northern Beaches B-Line and Bus Head Start program business cases. Matt is currently employed as Associate Director – Transport for Infrastructure Australia, leading the development of sectoral reforms for the Australian Infrastructure Plan 2021.

Ben Fahimnia is a Professor and Chair in Supply Chain Management at the University of Sydney, where his contributions to research and education led to his recognition as the youngest Australian Full Professor in 2016. He also serves as Director of the Australasian Supply Chain & Logistics Association (ASCLA) and is the Founding Director of Chance and Choice Lab and Sound of Silence Productions.

Professor Fahimnia has a multidisciplinary background spanning engineering, business and management, psychology, and dramatic arts. This diverse foundation empowers him to leverage expertise across multiple disciplines to assist organisations design intelligent, resilient, and sustainable supply chains through the integration of AI, advanced analytics, behavioural science, and systems thinking. A global leader in applied and problem-driven research, Professor Fahimnia leads multidisciplinary teams dedicated to developing innovative decision-support frameworks that improve organisational performance, national resilience, and human decision-making under uncertainty.

A strategic thinker and industry influencer, Professor Fahimnia works with business leaders, policymakers, and university executives to identify emerging challenges and translate them into opportunities for research and education. He leads cross-faculty initiatives, bringing together diverse research teams to tackle complex supply chain challenges across a wide range of industries. His research has attracted over $130 million in funding from government agencies, industry, and academic institutions. Frequently consulted by governments, regulatory bodies, and organisations ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies, he provides expert guidance on AI-enabled supply chain transformation, resilience intelligence, digital supply chain technologies, behavioural decision-making, supply chain risk and resilience, and sustainable operations.

Professor Fahimnia has dedicated much of his career to understanding and measuring human strengths and their alignment with various career paths. His pioneering work in this field led to the creation of Chance and Choice Lab, an initiative spanning multiple social media platforms, where he applies his research-driven capability assessment frameworks to help individuals discover their strengths and make informed career and life decisions. More than a longitudinal research project, Chance and Choice Lab serves as a research and innovation platform where individual cases are examined to develop, refine, and validate these capability assessment frameworks. Through this initiative, Professor Fahimnia bridges the gap between research and real-world application and empowers individuals to unlock their potential and take control of their future by making confident and purpose-driven career and life decisions.

A prolific author and sought-after keynote speaker, Professor Fahimnia has published extensively in leading academic journals and regularly delivers keynote addresses, executive education programs, and industry masterclasses for governments, businesses, and academic audiences worldwide. He serves as Editor for International Journal of Production Economics, Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and sits on the editorial boards of Transportation Research Part E and Decision Sciences.

Professor Fahimnia has also played a pivotal role in shaping multidisciplinary education, leading the development, planning, and promotion of cross-faculty teaching programs. His efforts have attracted major sponsorships, academic partnerships, and thousands of students worldwide. He has received numerous awards for his innovative teaching methods, practice-oriented education, and leadership in developing executive and professional education programs.

Outside academia, Professor Fahimnia combines his technical expertise with passion for storytelling and creativity in theatre and media production. As an executive producer, he leads theatrical and media projects that explore human behaviour, society, and culture. Drawing on his experience in script development, dramaturgy, casting, marketing, and financial management, he blends academic insight with artistic vision, making a meaningful impact in both scholarly and creative domains.

BappEc BCompSc SJTU MInfoMgmt Nangyang Tech PhD BrCol

Xiaowen is a Professor of Engineering Management in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He obtained his PhD degree from the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia in Canada. His main research area is transport economics which covers issues such as competition policy and government regulation, efficiency benchmarking, transport demand modelling and industrial organization. He has been the guest editor of 5 journal special issues, is on the editorial boards of three journals including Transportation Research – Part B, Part E, and is an editor of the journal of Transport Policy, associate editor of the book series “Advances in Airlines Economics”.

Professor Fu has provided advisory and economic modeling services to organizations such as the Boeing Commercial Aircraft, New Zealand Commerce Commission, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Government of British Columbia in Canada, Australian Competition Tribunal, Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department, Hong Kong Transport and Housing Bureau, Japan Rail (East), and OECD. He is the Vice President (Research) of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS), Vice President (Research) of the Institute for Aviation (UK), founding chair of the Maritime Economy and Policy stream of the World Transport Convention.

Dr Glenn Geers is currently an independent consultant in the transport domain. Glenn holds honours degrees in electrical engineering and theoretical physics, and received his PhD in the field of computational electromagnetism.He is a member of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics and the Association for Computing Machinery. He is on the Editorial Board of the journal GeoInformatica. He is an active participant in the Transportation Research Board Simulation Sub-committee.

Prior to joining ITLS as an adjunct professor in 2019 Glenn held senior research and research management roles in government (CSIRO, NICTA & ARRB) and private industry. Glenn is a member of academic, government and industry transport advisory groups both in Australia and overseas.

Glenn’s current research interests include cyber-physical security of transport systems, interdependent networks with particular emphasis on the interaction and failure modes of linked communications, electricity and transport networks; road rule implications for automated vehicles; and the extension of the Movement and Place planning framework to include automated vehicles.

Stephen is a Professor in Transport Management in the Institute of Transport & Logistics Studies (ITLS) at the University of Sydney. Prior to joining the University of Sydney in 2004, Stephen held a lectureship in transport at Monash University, Melbourne. Stephen completed his undergraduate training at Leeds, and a Masters at University of Cardiff, before moving overseas to complete a PhD at Louisiana State University in the Year 2000.

Stephen has a wide range of transportation-related teaching expertise at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He has taught courses in traffic engineering, transport planning and policy, transport sustainability and health, strategic transport modelling and Geographic Information Systems, always achieving high levels of student satisfaction. Stephen has also delivered specialised transportation courses and workshops to industry.

Stephen’s research interests are focused around the health/environmental/safety impacts of transport, new vehicle technologies including electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles, and innovative travel data collection methods using the latest technologies. He has 125 refereed publications, including 43 in international journals, has held three major ARC grants and successfully graduated 7 PhD students including 4 as primary supervisor. He also provides expert advice and media commentary on a range of transport-related issues and was co-chair of a major international conference on survey methods held in Australia in 2014.

From 2014-17, Stephen served as the Business School Doctoral studies program. Under his tenure, the program grew both in numbers and quality of students, as a range of initiatives focused around scholarships, coursework, and pastoral care have been implemented.

BS OSU; MA PhD UW

William Greene is Professor of Economics (emeritus) at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His fields of interest are applied econometrics, panel data analysis, discrete choice modeling, production economics, health econometrics, transport economics and planning, and economics of the entertainment industry. He is also president of Econometric Software, Inc. He is the author of software LIMDEP and NLOGIT, textbooks Econometric Analysis (Ed.1 to 8), books on discrete choice modeling, Modeling Ordered Choices and Applied Choice Analysis, and over 100 articles in peer reviewed journals. He is the editor in chief of Foundations and Trends in Econometrics and of the Journal of Productivity Analysis. He has also consulted to industry, including American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), National Economic Research Associates (NERA), the U.S.EPA, Booz Allen, U.S. Postal Service and numerous others.

MA, PhD Bochum University

Hans Hendrischke is Professor of Chinese Business and Management at the University of Sydney Business School and a member of the University’s China Studies Centre. He undertook his postgraduate research at the Contemporary China Institute, SOAS, University of London, and has lived in China from 1979, working in the diplomatic service and later in the finance industry. He speaks and writes fluent Chinese.

Hans is a frequent commentator on Chinese business and Australia–China economic relations in national and international media. His team's annual Demystifying Chinese Investment in Australia reports, produced with KPMG, receive wide international attention.

Since 1989, Hans has held a number of leadership roles, including Director of the Centre for Chinese Political Economy at Macquarie University; Co-Director of the UNSW–UTS Centre for Research on Provincial China; Director of the University of Sydney Confucius Institute; and Head of the China Business Network at the Business School.

His research focuses on the emergence of China’s private enterprise sector and the globalisation of Chinese firms, including their investment in Australia. His teaching and PhD supervision centre on formal and informal business institutions, local business systems, and local governance.

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AM; BCom(Hons I); PhD UNSW; FASSA; FCILT; FAITPM; CompIEAust; MAPA

David Hensher is Professor of Management and Founding Director of the Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS): The Australian Key Centre of Teaching and Research in Transport Management in The Business School at The University of Sydney.ITLS is ranked under Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) at level 5 ('well above world standards') and 8^th in the world in its field of expertise. Educated in Kenya, East Africa (Parklands, Lord Delamere), England (Lindfield, see https://www.slindoncollege.co.uk/about; Oxford: http://www.stx.ox.ac.uk/) and Australia (UNSW). In January 2023, David was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia (OA).

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Hensher

David is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA), Recipient of the 2009 IATBR (International Association of Travel Behaviour Research) Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition for his long-standing and exceptional contribution to IATBR as well as to the wider travel behaviour community (http://iatbr.weebly.com/award-winners.html), Recipient of 2006 Engineers Australia Transport Medal for lifelong contribution to transport, Recipient of the 2009 Bus NSW (Bus and Coach Association) Outstanding Contribution to Industry Award, and Recipient of the 2012 best paper released by theInternational Association of Maritime Economists(IAME). David is also the recipient of the Smart 2013 Premier Award for Excellence in Supply Chain Management, and recipient of the 2014 Institute of Transportation Engineers (Australia and New Zealand) Transport Profession Award to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the development of the transport/traffic engineering profession over a sustained period (https://www.ite.org.au/iteanz-awards/contribution-to-the-transport-profession-award); recipient of 2016 Award for Outstanding Research as part of the inaugural University of Sydney Vice-Chancellor's Awards for Excellence. David is also the recipient of the 2019 John Shaw Medal which honours an industry champion who has made a lasting contribution to Australia's roads https://transportaustralia.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/GAZI7562-scaled.jpg.Selected in 2018 by The University of Sydney as one of 25 research stars for the ARC Inaugural Engagement and Impact submission (ranked one of 12 with High Impact). In 2026 David was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award for Contributions to Choice Modelling at the 2026 International Choice Modelling Conference.

In 2021 an annual prize was established and namedin honour of David for best paper in transport demand modelling at the Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF)

https://australasiantransportresearchforum.org.au/prizes/and in 2021 David received the Business School's Research Engagement Award with colleagues. In January 2021, February 2023 and January 2026, David was announced as the #1 economist in Australia in research.com/scientists-rankings/economics-and-finance/au. A Director of Volvo Educational and Research Foundation (VREF) Centre of Excellence in Bus Rapid Transit (2010 onwards), Emeritus Member of Singapore Land Transport Authority International Advisory Panel 2007-2010 (Chaired by Minister of Transport), Honorary Fellow Singapore Land Transport Authority (LTA) Academy, Past President of the International Association of Travel Behaviour Research and a Past Vice-Chair of the International Scientific Committee of the World Conference of Transport Research. David is the Executive Chair and Co-Founder of The International Conference in Competition and Ownership of Land Passenger Transport (the Thredbo Series http://www.thredbo-conference-series.org/), now in its 37th year. David is on the editorial boards of 17 of the leading transport journals including one of 4 members of the Distinguished Advisory Board of Transportation Research Part A. David was appointed in 1999 by one of the world's most prestigious academic publishing houses - Elsevier Science press - as series and volume co-editor of a handbook series Handbooks in Transport. In 2010 he was appointed by Routledge Publishers (UK) as Editor of a four-volume major works in Transport Economics as well as Edward Elgar Publishers as Series Editor for volumes on Transport and the Environment. He has published extensively (over 800 papers) in the leading transport and economics journals (such as The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Applied Economics, Empirical Economics, Transportation Research Parts A, B, C, D, and E) as well as 17 books, and is Australia's most cited transport academic. David has over 88,300 citations of his contributions in Google Scholar (19^th most cited academic at the University of Sydney in all disciplines) and an H-index of 131 and i10-index of 587 Recognised in September 2020, 2021, 2025 and 2026 as Australia's leading researcher in the field of Transportation as reported in the Australian newspaper's review of Australia's research excellence. David is ranked first in the world for economists in the field of discrete choice models, as of August 2023 (https://ideas.repec.org/top/top.dcm.html) and ITLS (and the Business School at Sydney) is ranked second. David in 2022 is ranked #1 globally for scientists in transport and logistics (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FFatMl_ZjG8jC-rFDLuRl0VpVpdzeBzD-hZrrt_pv_M/htmlview), and #1 in 2025,2026  in Public Transport: https://scholargps.com/highly-ranked-scholars?year=2022&p_profile=1&ranking_duration=LIFETIME&base_specialty=Public+transport&e_ref=a4b6dd2095ee108cdb91.His books include the Demand for Automobiles, published by North-Holland, the Bus and Coach Business (with Ann Brewer published - Allen and Unwin), Transport: An Economics and Management Perspective (With Ann Brewer - Oxford University Press), Stated Choice Methods (with Jordan Louviere and Joffre Swait - Cambridge University Press), Applied Choice Analysis - a Primer (with John Rose and Bill Greene - Cambridge University Press, 1^st and 2^nd editions), Ordered Choice Models (with Bill Greene - Cambridge University Press), Mobility as a Service (MaaS) (with ITLS colleagues) - Elsevier Science, and Bus Transportation - Elsevier Science. Particular interests are transport economics, transport strategy, sustainable transport, productivity measurement, traveller behaviour analysis, choice analysis, stated choice experiments, process heuristics, and institutional reform (PPPs, privatisation tendering and contracting). David has advised numerous government and private sector organisations in many countries on matters related to transportation, especially matters related to forecasting demand for existing and new transportation services; for example the Speedrail high speed rail project, fast rail in regional NSW, the Fiji Travel Survey, the Liverpool-Parramatta Transitway, the North-West Rail project, West Connex, the Sydney Metro, public transport elasticities, and numerous toll road projects throughout Australia and internationally. David is regarded as Australia's most eminent expert on matters relating to travel demand and valuation and transport reform. Appointments include: a member of the executive committee that reviewed bus transport bids for the Olympic Games, the NSW Government's Peer Review Committee for the Sydney Strategic Transport Plan, Peer reviewer for Transfund (NZ) of the New Zealand project evaluation program, Peer reviewer of the NZ Land Passenger Transport Procurement Strategy for Land Transport NZ, member of the executive committee of ATEC, a consortium promoting a freight rail system between Melbourne and Darwin; economic adviser to Gilbert+Tobin Lawyers on valuation methods in IP context; panel member of Transport NSW benchmarking program; specialist toll road project adviser to Thiess, member of Infrastructure Australia's reference panel on public transport, adviser to the West Connex toll road Project, adviser to Deloitte Access Economics, Transport for NSW and peer reviewer for Southern Water (UK) regulatory pricing reform, and member of Board of Advice of ITLS (Africa). In 2014 David was appointed as a Panel Member to Review The Faculty of Management at The University of Johannesburg and in 2016 to review the Department of Management Sciences at the City University of Hong Kong. Member of Transport for NSW Connected and Automated Vehicle Stakeholder Reference Group (formed in 2017) and Infrastructure NSW Smart Cities Working Group.

David Hensher’s Impact

David Hensher’s contributions sit at the very centre of modern transport economics, travel behaviour, and public transport policy worldwide. If we map the field’s evolution over the last 40 years, there are a handful of scholars who fundamentally reshaped how transport is modelled, valued, and governed — and he is one of them.

Below is a structured, evidence‑based synthesis of his main contributions and global impact, organised the way a senior academic committee or international award citation would present it.

1. Foundational Contributions to Discrete Choice and Behavioural Modelling

He helped transform discrete choice modelling from a theoretical construct into a practical, policy‑relevant behavioural science. Key innovations

• The Hensher Equation — the behavioural generalised cost formulation used globally.

• WTP‑space modelling — now standard in mixed logit estimation.

• Attribute processing rules — recognition that travellers simplify complex choices.

• SP/RP experimental design — he co‑created the modern SP design framework used in Ngene.

Global impact

• Every major VTT, VOR, and crowding valuation study uses your formulations.

• His textbooks (with Greene, Rose, and others) are the most widely used applied choice modelling texts after Ben‑Akiva & Lerman.

 2. Leadership in Value of Travel Time (VTT) and Reliability (VOR)

David shaped the economic valuation of:

• travel time

• reliability

• schedule delay

• crowding

• comfort

• access/egress penalties

Impact

His formulations are embedded in:

• Infrastructure Australia

• UK WebTAG

• NZTA Economic Evaluation Manual

• European Commission CBA guidelines

• World Bank appraisal frameworks

This is one of his most enduring global legacies.

 3. Revolutionising Bus Contracting and Public Transport Reform

David is arguably the most influential public transport economist in the world.

His contributions:

• Created the performance‑based contracting framework used in NSW, NZ, Singapore, and the UK.

• Developed the benchmarking and incentive structures for bus operators.

• Introduced contractual risk allocation principles now standard in franchising.

Impact

• NSW’s bus contracts (one of the world’s largest franchised systems) are built on his work.

• David’s frameworks shaped reforms in Auckland, London, Santiago, Singapore, and Scandinavia.

4. Advancing Transport Policy, Pricing, and Governance

David has been a leading voice in:

• congestion pricing

• road user charging

• tolling reform

• integrated multimodal planning

• social exclusion and equity in transport

• transport governance and institutional design

Impact

His work is cited in every major pricing review in Australia and New Zealand and widely referenced in OECD and World Bank policy papers.

5. Building the Field: ITLS and Global Research Leadership

David didn’t just contribute research — he built institutions.

ITLS

• David founded and led one of the world’s top transport research institutes.

• ITLS became a global hub for choice modelling, public transport economics, and policy evaluation.

Mentorship

• David has supervised over 70 PhDs, many now leaders in Australia, Europe, Asia, and the Americas.

• His academic “family tree” is one of the largest in transport economics.

 6. Citation Impact and Scholarly Influence

David’s Google Scholar profile (now ~86,000 citations) places him:

• #1 in the world in transport economics

• Top 3 globally across all transport fields

• Top 0.01% of economists worldwide

His h‑index and publication volume are unmatched in applied transport economics.

7. Shaping the Practice of Transport Modelling

David’s work is embedded in:

• Sydney STM

• NZ national models

• UK appraisal models

• European multimodal models

• World Bank urban transport models

His generalised cost structures, SP design principles, and valuation frameworks are default components of modern modelling practice.

Summary: David Hensher’s Global Impact

David’s contributions can be summarised in four lines:

·         He transformed discrete choice modelling into a practical policy tool.

·         He reshaped how the world values time, reliability, and service quality.

·         He revolutionised bus contracting and public transport governance.

·         He built institutions and trained a generation of global leaders.

Few transport academics have had this breadth, depth, and longevity of influence.