Learn with the experts

You’ll hear from Australia's leading business and law academics and corporate executives as course directors, guest presenters and subject authors.

Course directors

  • Dr Kevin Adams, former Deputy Pro Vice-Chancellor, Business Learning & Teaching, RMIT University
  • Dr Marco Bini FGIA, Director, Policy and Coordination, Victorian Auditor-General's Office
  • Kane Blackman FGIA, Commission Secretary, Insurance Commission of WA
  • Robin Bowley FGIA, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Technology, Sydney
  • Glenn Burke, Principal, Proactive Business Advice
  • Dr Ulysses Chioatto FGIA, Executive Director, Institutional Shareholder Services inc
  • Dennis Clark FGIA, Managing Director, Clark Corporate Consulting
  • Laurie Factor FGIA, former Senior Lecturer, School of Business Law, Curtin University
  • Associate Professor Anil Hargovan, Australian School of Taxation and Business Law, University of New South Wales
  • Bill Hundy FGIA, Corporate Lawyer and Company Director, Watson, Mangioni Solicitors
  • Joanne MacDonald, Maclsles Consulting
  • Damian McKenzie-McHarg, Quality and Risk Manager, TAFE NSW Riverina Institute
  • Margaret Pyrchla FGIA, Manager, Risk and Compliance, Western Power
  • Jayne Staddon FGIA, Manager — Legal and Governance, Queensland Performing Arts Centre
  • Associate Professor Michael Tarrant, Convenor/Chair of International ISO Working Group 3
  • Philip Thomas FGIA, Managing Director, Oakland Group Pty Ltd
  • Jevon Turner, Manager, Business (Risk and Compliance), Herron Todd White
  • Lawrence Tutton FGIA, former Company Secretary, GUD Holdings Ltd
  • Peter Whelan FGIA, Lecturer, School of Economics & Finance, Queensland University of Technology
  • Dr David White FGIA, former Program Leader: Leadership Capability, (SA) Dept of Premier & Cabinet, Public Sector Management Division
  • Peter Whyntie FGIA, Director and Principal Consultant, Peter Whyntie & Associates Pty Ltd
  • Lidia Xynas, Senior Lecturer, Director of Teaching and Learning, Victoria University

Guest presenters include

  • Kane Blackman FGIA, Commission Secretary, Insurance Commission of WA
  • Craig Boyle, Partner, Minter Ellison
  • Priscilla Bryans FGIA, Partner, Herbert Smith Freehills
  • Ero Coroneos AGIA, Manager, Community and Social Strategy, Barangaroo South, Lend Lease Corporation
  • David Ephraums, Partner, Clayton Utz
  • Robert Goldie, Goldie Corporate Counsel
  • Jeff Krins, Principal, Macpherson Kelley
  • Jeffrey Luckins FGIA, Director, William Buck Audit (Vic) Pty Ltd
  • Will Moncrieff, Partner, Jackson McDonald
  • Paul White FGIA, Senior Risk Manager — Postal and Ecommerce, Australia Post

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