One of the key note speakers will be Roy Green BA LLB (Adelaide) PhD (Cambridge). Roy Green is Dean and Professor of Management at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) Faculty of Business. Professor Green took his undergraduate degrees at the University of Adelaide and a PhD in economics at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Research Fellow during the 1980s, and worked subsequently in universities and government in Australia, the UK and Ireland. During the 1990s, he was Director of the Employment Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle. This was followed by a period as Dean of the Faculty of Commerce at the National University of Ireland, Galway, where he attracted competitive funding for a national centre of excellence, the Centre for Innovation & Structural Change, and a private endowment to establish the J E Cairnes Graduate School of Business & Public Policy. He has also served as Dean of the Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Sydney.
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Professor Green has published widely in the areas of innovation, industry policy, regional development and workplace analysis. He has also undertaken projects with industry and organisations such as the OECD, European Commission and Enterprise Ireland. While in Ireland, he was chair of the Irish Academy of Management, chair of the private sector panel of the Irish Government’s Forum on the Workplace of the Future, and member of Enterprise Ireland’s National Research Funding Support Board, the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences and Advisory Forum of the Economic and Social Research Institute. He also joined business leaders on the Steering Group of the Atlantic Technology Corridor, a grouping of 270 ICT and medical technology companies in the west of Ireland.
Back in Australia since early 2006, Professor Green is an executive member of the Australian Business Deans Council and chair of the CSIRO Manufacturing Sector Advisory Council and the NSW Manufacturing Council. He is also a board member of the Society for Knowledge Economics, Australian Bureau of Statistics Innovation Technical Reference Group, South Australian Training and Skills Commission and Public Sector Performance Commission, and he was lead author of the Business Council of Australia’s report, ‘New Pathways to Prosperity: An Innovation Framework for Australia’. Most recently, he was appointed by the Federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research to review the Textiles, Clothing and Footwear industries in parallel with the review of Australia’s National Innovation System. He was also appointed by the Minister to chair the board of the Innovative Regions Centre, with five locations around Australia, as part of the Federal Government’s Enterprise Connect initiative. |
