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.
ROSS BARKER
Chairman
ANTHONY BURGESS
Chair: Investment Committee
JAN CRAPS
Board Member
JACKIE FAIRLEY
Chair: Renumerations & Nominations Committee
IAN HARPER AO
Board Member
DEAN IRELAND
Board Member
ROBERT JOHANSON
Board Member
ANNETTE KIMMITT AM
Chair: Finance, Audit & Risk
PAUL KOFMAN
Board Member
CAMERON LEITCH
Board Member
GEOFF MARTIN
Board Member
Executive Leadership Team
SALLY FORRESTER
Executive Director, Marketing
NORA KOSLOWSKI
Executive Director, Organisational Learning Group
THEONI PARTHIMOS
Executive Director, People & Culture
STEPHEN SMITH
Executive Director, Client & Career Development
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
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 2019MBS-Consolidated-Statutory-Accounts-2019.pdf | 2.25MB | PDF
