Board and Leadership
Melbourne Business School attracts the best business practitioners and researchers to help emerging leaders take their organisations into the future.
In our classrooms, students from all corners of the globe work together under pressure to collaborate, grow and challenge themselves.
For innovation you need creativity, critical thinking, competition, collaboration and communication. These are the essential drivers of a modern knowledge economy, such as the one we're developing here in Melbourne.
IAN HARPER AO
Dean, Melbourne Business School
Co-Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics
Board Members
Our board is our strength. It boasts some of Australia’s most respected business leaders and academics, with experience across all sectors and regions. They make sure what we teach as a business school is what business leaders need to know for the future.
CHAIRMAN
Mr Barker has been a managing director of some of Australia’s leading investment companies, including the Australian Foundation Investment Company, Mirrabooka Investments and AMCIL Ltd, and now serves as a non-executive director on their boards.
CHAIR: INVESTMENT COMMITTEE
Over thirty five years of corporate finance experience in Melbourne, New York and London. Founder and Chairman of Flagstaff Partners, an independent corporate finance advisory firm. A Governor of The Ian Potter Foundation.
BOARD MEMBER
One of Australia’s leading economists, Professor Harper is Dean of Melbourne Business School, Co-Dean of the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics, a Reserve Bank board member and former Deloitte partner.
CHAIR: FINANCE, RISK AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
Mr Johanson was a long-time chair of Bendigo and Adelaide Bank and member of the Australian Government’s Takeovers Panel. He continues to chair the Australia India Institute @ Delhi and Australian Friends of Asha for Slums charity.
BOARD MEMBER
A global executive for over 25 years, Ms Johns is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of explosives and fertiliser giant Incitec Pivot. She is also a founding member of the Australian Climate Leaders Coalition.
BOARD MEMBER
Professor Kofman is Co-Dean and Sidney Myer Chair of Commerce at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics. He is a co-author of “A Matter of Trust: The Practice of Ethics in Finance”.
BOARD MEMBER
A 13-year partner of global consultancy McKinsey & Company in Melbourne, Mr Leitch is CEO of Australia’s premier retailer of musical instruments and pro audio gear, SoundBay, and remains a McKinsey Master Faculty member, training associate partners.
BOARD MEMBER
Mr Lord was once chairman or director at Foster’s Brewing, Elders Resources and sporting clubs Hawthorn Football Club and Melbourne Victory. He’s now owner of Belgravia Group and founder of UXC and Judo Bank.
BOARD MEMBER
Professor Martin worked in senior strategy and operational risk roles, including for Credit Suisse in Singapore and London, before completing his PhD in Madrid and joining our School to teach strategy on our MBA programs.
BOARD MEMBER
After senior roles at the University of Cambridge, Professor Maskell is now University of Melbourne Vice-Chancellor. The infectious diseases expert has co-founded four biotech companies and sat on capital investment fund and FTSE250 company boards.
CHAIR: REMUNERATION AND NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE
Former World Vision Australia CEO, Ms Rogers has also been a strategic growth and digital leader at ANZ bank. She is currently dutyof.care Executive Director, Mentor List Managing Partner and an angel at Scale Investors.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN; CHAIR: PROPERTIES & FACILITIES
A partner for over 40 years at top commercial law firm Mallesons Stephen Jaques, now King & Wood Mallesons, for whom he still consults, Mr Zipfinger is also chairman of green technology company, Vecor.
Dean's Office
DEAN
Professor Harper is leading our School into a new era of innovation and business collaboration. Respected for his work with governments, banks, corporates and professional services firms, including Deloitte Australia, the Reserve Bank of Australia board member is also the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Business and Economics Co-dean.
DEAN, INTERNAL
Professor Beaton-Wells leads the senior leadership team and is shaping the School’s digital transformation in response to a changing landscape of higher education. A renowned competition policy and law expert, passionate about purpose-driven growth and impact, she has held leadership roles at Melbourne Law School, been an adviser to OECD and ASEAN consultant and is a member of Chief Executive Women.
Senior Leadership Team
DEPUTY DEAN, ACADEMIC
Professor Olsen leads our outstanding academic team of business experts. A leading Operations and Supply Chain academic, she has headed two University of Auckland Business School departments, been Faculty of Business and Economics Deputy Dean at the same university and taught at the University of Michigan and Olin Business School.
CHIEF EXECUTIVE EDUCATION OFFICER
Magnus ensures our short courses and custom programs are relevant and impactful, drawing on his experience as a Global Strategy Group partner and NSW education sector lead partner at KPMG and Director Executive Education at the University of New South Wales business school, AGSM.
CHIEF ENGAGEMENT OFFICER
An MBS alumnus, Steve is transforming our stakeholder engagement. He’s been Victoria University’s Senior Vice-President and Deputy Vice-Chancellor and, in the UK, a director at the University of Westminster and the Foundation for International Education and marketing manager at the European School of Economics.
CHIEF LEARNING INNOVATION OFFICER
Dr Koslowski leads our online programs and learning innovations. With a PhD in Management from University College Cork, Ireland, she has been Head of Department of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, and Associate Director of Leadership Research at Maximus, Sydney.
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Joel provides financial oversight and ensures operational efficiency. A former Chief Financial Officer at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, he’s also worked in senior roles at Monash University, has been a member on not-for-profit boards and committees and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Corporate Structure
Melbourne Business School is a public company, limited by guarantee, and jointly owned by business (55 per cent) and the University of Melbourne (45 per cent). As the University’s graduate school in business and economics, we’re run as a not-for-profit to provide Australia’s best business education experience.
Governance
The board’s primary role is to set and review strategic and operating objectives, enhance the School’s reputation and protect the interests of all stakeholders. It has established a number of committees to help with these responsibilities.
Remunerations and Nominations Committee
Finance Risk and Audit Committee
Properties and Facilities Committee
Investment Committee
AGM 2022 – Proposed Amendments to Constitution
Policies
Whistleblower Policy
Melbourne Business School is committed to the highest standards of conduct and ethical behavior.
In supporting a culture of honest and ethical behavior, corporate compliance and good corporate governance, the School has embedded a Whistleblower Policy encouraging the reporting of any undesirable conduct by any personnel associated with Melbourne Business School, through a formal process and protection policy.
Annual Financial Reports
Download the Latest Report
Annual Financial Report 2022MBS-Consolidated-Statutory-Accounts-2022.pdf | 775KB | PDF
