Senior Management Group

• Vice-Chancellor and President (Chair)
• Deputy Vice Chancellor and Provost
• Dean, Business
• Dean, Health Sciences & Medicine
• Dean, Humanities & Social Sciences
• Dean, Law
• Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students & Academic Support)
• Chief Financial Officer & Director of Major Projects
• Director of Marketing and Admissions

Vice-Chancellor and President (Chair)

Professor Tim Brailsford

Professor Brailsford is the Vice Chancellor and President of Bond University. Professor Brailsford’s previous positions include Executive Dean at the University of Queensland; Dean at the Australian National University in Canberra, and other senior academic positions at the University of Melbourne and Monash University. He holds a PhD, Master and Honours degrees and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia, Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and Fellow of CPA Australia.

Professor Brailsford’s area of expertise is finance and investments. He was appointed as the inaugural Frank Finn Professor of Finance at the University of Queensland and he is the co-author of the best-selling Australasian text on Investments, now in its 4th edition. Professor Brailsford has also published a number of books and research monographs and over 60 research papers. Professor Brailsford’s research has been recognised through various prestigious manuscript awards. In 2003, Professor Brailsford was awarded the Prime Minister’s Centenary Medal.

Professor Brailsford’s expertise crosses into industry. He sits on several boards and is a member of the Investment Committee of an industry fund with over $1 billion of assets under management. Board appointments include Queensland Rugby Union (including Reds Rugby), AACSB, EFMD, and some private investment companies. Professor Brailsford is also a regular consultant and advisor to industry and government, particularly in the field of investment management and valuation. Recent clients have included organisations in both State and Federal governments and a number of listed corporations. Further, several of his research projects are collaborative and funded by industry.

Professor Brailsford is also an active contributor to the profession and has served on a number of professional committees, including the Professional Education Board of CPA Australia, past President of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia & New Zealand, and past President of the Australian Business Deans Council and President of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools. He is also appointed to the global Board of Directors of AACSB International and the Global Board of Trustees of the European Foundation for Management Development, and is the first Australian to be elected to these positions. 

Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost

Professor Garry Marchant

Professor Garry Marchant holds a PhD in Business Administration and A.M. in Psychology from the University of Michigan and a B.Com with First Class Honours in Accounting, Finance and Systems from the University of New South Wales.

Prior to his affiliation with Bond University he was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne.

He has also been on the faculties of the University of Connecticut, the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), the University of Texas at Austin and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.

As well Professor Marchant has also held positions with the Reserve Bank of Australia and Woolworth’s (Australia) Ltd.

Professor Marchant has been teaching for over 19 years and has taught at all levels including undergraduate, MBA, Ph.D., and in Executive Education. He has developed and taught courses in Management Accounting, Cost Management, Performance Management, and Management Decision Making. He has also developed and taught in executive development seminars and company specific workshops on topics such as Strategic Cost Management and Performance Management.

Professor Marchant conducts research and consults on performance measurement and evaluation, strategy implementation, cost management and the use of accounting information for strategic decision making. He has been a KPMG Research Fellow and the recipient of a KPMG Research Grant and is currently the recipient of both an ARC Discovery and an ARC Linkage grant.

Research currently in process investigates the impact of planning, evaluation and control systems on organisational learning, analyses the impact of implementing a balanced performance measurement system on strategic decision making, and examines the process of aligning performance management systems.

Professor Marchant is widely published including articles that have appeared in the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Behavioural Research in Accounting, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of the American Tax Association, Advances in Taxation and Psychological Reports.
 

Dean, Business

Professor Mark Hirst

BA, BEc (Hons), M Com (Hons), PhD

Professor Mark Hirst was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development in July, 2010. This faculty has subsequently been renamed to the Faculty of Business.  Qualified in accounting, finance, economics and management, Professor Hirst joined Bond from the Australian School of Business at the University of New South Wales, where he was a Professor of Management.

Prior to joining the Australian School of Business, Professor Hirst held a number of positions with the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM) , including: Director, Hong Kong Programs; Associate Dean, AGSM Executive Programs; Associate Dean, Faculty; Head, Accounting and Finance; and Director Centre for Research in Finance.

Preceding his AGSM appointment, he was Chairman, Faculty of Commerce and Economics at the University of New South Wales where he also held positions as the Price Waterhouse Professor of Accounting and Director of Management Accounting Studies.  He has been a Visiting Professor in France (INSEAD); Singapore (INSEAD); China (CEIBS); and the United State (Duke CE) (SDSU).  He is a member of the American Accounting Association.

Professor Hirst has designed and delivered management development programs in Australia, the United States, Asia and Europe.  His teaching focuses on helping managers create wealth by managing key value drivers such as revenue growth, profit margins, asset utilisation, investment and the design of incentive compensation schemes. 

More generally, he works with managers who have responsibility for strategy development and execution. In these matters he has worked with several firms including the Westfield Group, RBC Dexia Investment Services, The Arts Council of Australia, DHL, Fairfax Ltd, Fresenius SE, News Ltd, Optus, P & O Ports, AIG, Promina, Westpac, Rio Tinto, Telstra, Thales AG and Zurich AG. 

Professor Hirst’s research and consulting interests focus on strategy implementation and organisational design issues that arise within a value based management framework. His articles have appeared in leading Australian and overseas journals, including The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting Organisations and Society and the Journal of Applied Psychology.
 

Dean, Health Sciences & Medicine

Professor Richard Hays

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Quality, Teaching & Learning)
 

Professor Richard Hays has forged a distinguished career as one of Australia's leading experts in medical education. He served as the Foundation Head of School, Foundation Chair of General Practice and Rural Medicine, and the Chair of Medication Education at the James Cook University Medical School. In this capacity, he was responsible for the educational development and accreditation of the first new Australian medical school to open in 26 years and the first regional institution to specifically focus on rural medical practices.

Maintaining an active and prolific research profile, Professor Hays has compiled more than 80 papers and authored five books, the majority of which are themed around medical education and rural practice. He has secured several million dollars worth of research funding and is regularly invited to present papers at conferences around the world.

Throughout his academic career, Professor Hays has continued his involvement in general practice, providing up to three sessions per week for various practice co-operatives until moving to the UK in 2006. As such, his expertise in medical education is augmented by his in-depth understanding of the realities of general practice in today's society.
 

Dean, Humanities & Social Sciences

Professor Raoul Mortley AO FAHA

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Special Projects)
 

Professor Raoul Mortley AO was reappointed in October 2002 as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences after appointments as Vice-Chancellor at Newcastle and also at Bond University.

Since 1997 he has been a consultant to higher education and business, working most recently through TFG International Pty.Ltd. He has worked for the Commonwealth Government, the World Bank/IFC, and has also worked in nine individual universities in Australia, and carried out a study on a student loans scheme in Vietnam. His clients have also included biotech companies and engineering companies.

He has been Chair of the NSW Vice-Chancellor’s Committee, Chair of the Australian Education office in Washington, and Chair of the AV-CC Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee. He was educated at the University of Sydney, Monash University and the University of Strasbourg, and has spent substantial periods as Researcher and Director of Research in the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris.

Expertise
His scholarly work is in philosophy and the history of ideas and he has published a number of books in this area. He taught at the Sorbonne as Visiting Professor in philosophy and religion in May 2003, and at the Collège de France as Visiting International Professor in 2000.

Research Interests
Professor Mortley has worked in the area of philosophy and the history of ideas since his undergraduate days, during which he was trained in Latin, Greek and Philosophy. His publications lie in the area of Platonism, Neoplatonism and the development of Christianity. More recently he has begun to focus on Plotinus, and is writing a book on that philosopher, on the general area of the self and its limits. Senior appointments include:

Education
Vice-Chancellor, University of Newcastle
Vice-Chancellor, Bond University
Chair, AVCC Intellectual Property and Copyright Committee
Chair, NSW Vice-Chancellors’ Committee
Chair, Australian Education Office, Washington
Adjunct Professor in Humanities, Macquarie University (current)

Business/Technology

• Chairman, In-Motion Technologies Pty.Ltd.
• Board member, shareholder in TFG International
• Chairman, Professional Standards Board for Patent and Trade Marks Attorneys (Commonwealth Government, Department of Industry, Science and Resources).

Dean, Law

Professor Geraldine Mackenzie

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research)
 

Professor Geraldine Mackenzie was appointed Dean, Faculty of Law, Bond University in January 2009, and also holds the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research), having responsibility for the Office of Research Services and the Graduate School. Previously she was PVC (Business and Community Engagement). Prior to joining Bond, she was Foundation Head, School of Law, at the University of Southern Queensland, and held senior positions at QUT. She holds a PhD in sentencing law from UNSW. She sits on several boards, including her appointment as Chair, Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council, an independent statutory body which advises the Attorney-General on policy matters. She is a member of the Australian Research Council College, Executive Member of the Council of Australian Law Deans (Chair, Legal Education Sub-Committee), Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management and member of Queensland Bar Association (Barrister at Law). She is the principal supervisor of six PhD students at Bond.

She has strong links with the legal profession, which have resulted in increased engagement and opportunities for students. As Dean of Law at Bond, she has been active internationally, negotiating new relationships with leading Universities in China, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States, France and Germany.

She is the author or co-author of five books on criminal law and sentencing and has written numerous journal articles and conference papers in her specialist areas. Professor Mackenzie's research encompasses both the practical aspects of criminal law and the courts, and also theoretical and policy aspects, particularly in relation to sentencing. Her most recent work examines public confidence in the courts, and she was the team leader of one of the largest ARC Discovery Grants ever awarded in Law, heading a multi-disciplinary team of senior academic from six leading Australian universities, in a groundbreaking project on Sentencing and Public Confidence.

In 2009, she was commissioned by the Queensland Attorney-General to investigate a new legislative defence for battered persons who kill their abusers. The team she led at Bond University produced a comprehensive report, resulting in Australia's first groundbreaking legislation in this area.
 

Pro Vice-Chancellor (Students and Academic Support)

Alan Finch

Alan Finch joined Bond’s foundation team in 1987 and was heavily involved in the initial planning of the academic and student administration for Australia’s first independent, not-for-profit university.

Over the years, he has played a key role in developing and reviewing the University’s academic infrastructure.

Mr Finch is also deputy Chair of the Council of Private higher Education and has served on a variety of bodies, including the Advisory Council to the Board of Secondary School Studies and the National Advisory Committee on Higher Education Statistics.
 

Chief Financial Officer & Director of Major Projects

John Le Lievre

John Le Lievre, CA, CPA, has held the position of Director of Finance since January 1997. Prior to his affiliation with Bond University, he was Managing Director of EIE Australia, a Japanese Investment Group that through its parent had a substantial financial stake in the Bond University buildings and surrounding development land, as well as investments in Australian Hotel and Tourism Assets, most notably, Sanctuary Cove, the Regent and Park Hyatt hotels in Sydney, along with other commercial and retail properties around Australia and the Pacific Rim. In addition, Mr Le Lievre was a Director of the Public Company, Barrier Reef Holding Ltd, that operated hotel assets in Vietnam. During this time, he represented EIE International as an Alternate Director on the Bond University board and later as a Director.

Prior to joining EIE, Mr Le Lievre was employed by Price Waterhouse for a period of 17 years, initially in the area of Audit with speciality in Banking, Financing and Agribusiness. He was also involved in a number of Pacific Rim assignments, particularly in investigations, reconstruction, acquisitions and mergers in Jakarta, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomon Islands. Mr Le Lievre was also a Director of Business Services in Price Waterhouse Brisbane prior to joining EIE Japan.
 

Director of Marketing and Admissions

Valerie Runyan

Valerie Runyan joined Bond University in January 2011 as the Director of Marketing and Admissions after 12 years in senior leadership positions at the University of Ballarat, Victoria. With an extensive background in domestic and international student recruitment for the higher education and TAFE sectors, Ms Runyan brings a wealth of global strategic and operational higher-education marketing expertise to her new role.

Prior to joining Bond, Ms Runyan was the Director of Student Services, Special Advisor to the Vice-Chancellor (Student Recruitment) for the University of Ballarat, Victoria. She successfully managed a team of more than 100 staff across six campuses in a multi sector environment to increase recruitment targets, diversify the student-body mix, and adopt government reforms including the Bradley Review and the Victorian Government Skills Reform.