Professor Raghuvar Dutt Pathak (Professor of Management) is the Head of the Graduate School of Business and Director of MBA programme. He teaches Organisational Behaviour on the MBA programme. He joined USP in 1999 and was Professor& Head of the Department of Management & Public Administration (MPA) for 6 years. He was also Acting Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) at Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE). Before joining USP, he was Professor & Director & Deanof the Institute of Management Studies of Devi Ahilya University at Indore, India (1993-1999), Director of University Research and Development, Head of the School of Defense and Management Studies, and Programme Director of the International Institute of Professional Studies at Devi Ahilya University , Indore, India . He has also worked as a ‘Fellow’ in the Manchester Business School, UK and Department of Management, The University of Melbourne, Australia.  He has more than 20 years of postgraduate (MBA) teaching experience and has published 3 research based books and more than 75 research papers in reputed refereed journals  such as: European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology ;  Public Organization Review: A Global Journal ; International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal ; Journal of Engineering and Technology Management .
He has also participated and presented papers in more than 75 national and international conferences, seminars and workshops. He is also on the Editorial Boards of five international journals (including Management Research News from Emerald publishers) and a reviewer for leading international conferences including Academy of management (USA). He is a Member of leading associations including Academy of Management, USA; Chairperson of the Pacific Islands Local chapter of the Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public Administration and Governance (NAPSIPAG); and is also a Member of the South Asian Quality Assurance System (SAQS) Council of the Association of Management Development Institutions in South Asia (AMDISA). 
Dr. Pathak has provided consultancy to various public and private sector corporations (including ITC, Hindustan Levers, and Whirlpool India), International Labor Organization (ILO), and the Ministry of National Planning of Fiji. He has also been a Trainer for a number of organizations including the Public Service Commission of Fiji.

PUBLICATIONS

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Prof. Raghuvar Pathak
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location: Statham Campus
IDD Tel. No.: +679 32 31390            
Email: raghuvar.pathak(at)usp.ac.fj

Professor James McMaster (Professor of Management) is an economist who joined USP in 1999 as Director of the Pacific Institute of Management and Development. He teaches South Pacific Business Environment and Business Economics on the MBA. Before joining USP he was Dean of the Faculty of Management at the University of Canberra where he was previously the Director of the MBA program. He has undertaken many consulting assignments for the major international organizations, including: the World Bank in Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Korea, Indonesia, Philippines, and Singapore; Asian Development Bank in Malaysia and Philippines; International Monetary Fund; United Nations Development Program in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Fiji; Forum Secretariat in the South Pacific; Commonwealth Secretariat; East-West Centre in Hawaii, Tonga, Vanuatu, Fiji, Samoa; Asian and Pacific Development Centre in Kuala Lumpur and the National Centre for Development Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Prof. James McMaster
Section/Department:    Graduate School of Business
Location:    Statham Campus
IDD Tel. No.:    +679 32 31100               
Email:    james.mcmaster(at)usp.ac.fj

Shamsuddin Ahmed, PhD. a Professor at the Graduate School of Business, USP. He teaches operations management, quantitative methods, MIS courses in the MBA program. He holds a Master of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering from Dalhousie University, Canada and PhD from Edith Cowan University, Australia. His industry experience incorporates management of project in supply chain environment. As an industrial engineer with senior managerial capacities, he coordinated quality control, systems planning, operations scheduling functions in project and production management setting. Professor Ahmed taught in several universities in India, Middle East, Pacific Island Countries, Central Asia including IIT-Bombay; United Arab Emirates University (UAEU), King Abdul Aziz University (KAU); Kazakhstan Institute of Management Economics and Strategic Research (KIMEP) and American University of the Middle East. His teaching portfolio includes operations management, SCM, quantitative methods, statistics, research methods, simulations, operations research, facilities and project planning. Professor Ahmed received research, faculty and service awards from KIMEP, KAAU and UAEU.
His research interest includes multi-objective decision analysis, non-linear programming, decision support systems, system modeling, simulation, TQM, SCM, forecasting, six sigma process control in hospital resources management and neural network applications. He published more than sixty scholarly peer reviewed articles in international journals, book chapters and conference proceeding. Professor Ahmed founded and edited an interdisciplinary journal managed by KIMEP. He designed and developed a number of software in statistical computing, machine learning and systems simulations. His consulting works in Middle East and Central Asia include strategic financial forecasting, budgeting and quality management.

Dr Shamsuddin Ahmed
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD tel. No.:  +679 32 31389

E-mail: shamsuddin.ahmed(at)usp.ac.fj

Mr Mesake Nawari, (Senior Fellow) joined the MBA Program in January 2009. He holds a Master of Commerce in Finance and Banking (Distinction) from the University of Sydney and a Postgraduate Diploma in Accounting and Financial Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Economics from the University of the South Pacific. He was the first Group Chief Executive Officer of Fiji Television Group and prior to this role he was the first General Manager of Fijian Holdings Unit Trust and FHL Securities, a licensed stock broking business. Mesake was also the first CEO of the South Pacific Stock Exchange and Manager of the Unit Trust of Fiji and Fiji Stock Brokers. He set up the first trading floor in Suva and took over the management of Unit Trust of Fiji from the Fiji Development Bank in 1996. He was also involved in the setting up and licensing of the first broking house and traders, credit referencing agency, and the Central Share Registry in Fiji. He was also the first and youngest trustee of the Fijian Trust Fund (FTF), a $40m fund set up to finance the operations and functions of the Great Council of Chiefs. He has been recently appointed the Chairman of the South Pacific Stock Exchange. He teaches Accounting for Decision Making, Financial Markets and Institutions and Finance on the MBA Program.Mesake’s areas of interest include corporate planning, performance management, investment appraisals, financial re-engineering, corporate governance and executive development.

Mr Mesake Nawari
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD tel. No.:               +679 32 31393

E-mail: mesake.nawari(at)usp.ac.fj

Dr. Arthur L. (Arch) Darrow joined the Faculty of the Graduate School of Business as Senior Lecturer in 2010, primarily teaching Strategic Management.  He received his PhD in Business Administration and Research Methodology from the University of Iowa in the US.  He spent 25 years at Bowling Green State University where he taught multiple courses, published and/or presented over 50 research articles, and consulted to a wide range of US and international organizations.  He also served as Director of Bowling Green’s highly acclaimed Masters in Organization Development Program.  In addition to his academic credentials, Dr. Darrow has been a small business owner and an upper-level executive in the transportation industry, as well as a professional blackjack, roulette, and craps dealer and Table Games Supervisor (Pit Boss) in Las Vegas.

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Dr Arthur Darrow
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD tel. No.: +679 32 31395 

E-Mail: arthur.darrow(at)usp.ac.fj

Dr Peter Faga Mario, served GSB from January 2009 to December 2011 as a Lecturer with the MBA Program and is currently a visiting faculty. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Business Administration (DBA) and a Master of Management Degree (MMgt) both from Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia. He also holds a Post Graduate Certificate & Diploma in Human Resource Management from the Australian Quality College, Sydney, NSW, Australia. He is a former professional Reinsurer and Fund Manager (Investment Adviser). Prior to joining USP, he was General Manager of the Fiji Reinsurance Corporation Limited for 20 years and then Unit Trust of Fiji (Management) Limited for 10 years. His experiences are mainly in the Financial Services Sector in Fiji both in the private and public sectors. Dr Mario was also a Senior Associate of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia (FINSIA) and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management (FAIM). He teaches Marketing and Human Resources Management on the MBA Program and his areas of interest includes globalization and financial services sectors. Dr Mario is a Fiji citizen and hails from the Island of Rotuma. 

Dr Peter Mario
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD tel. No.:             +679 32 31378 

E-mail: peter.mario(at)usp.ac.fj

Ms Anna De Jong, (Lecturer) teaches Quantitative Business Analysis, Operations and Quality Management and Project Management on the MBA program.

Ms Anna De Jong
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD tel. No.: +679 3231376       

E-mail: anna.dejong(at)usp.ac.fj

Dr Benedito Waqailiti (Lecturer) joined the MBA program after pursuing his PhD studies at Griffith University, Gold Campus, Australia. After obtaining an MBA from the University of Canberra he joined the School of Management and Public Administration (USP) lecturing in Organization Behavior, Human Resources Management, Marketing and Management. In addition he conducted Summer Schools and consulted middle managers cohort groups in regional centers such as:  Tuvalu, Tonga, Samoa, Vanuatu, Solomon Is, Nauru, Kiribati and Fiji. Ben’s areas of interest include: female small business entrepreneurship, new venture creation, South Pacific business environment and services marketing.

Mr Benedito Waqailiti
Section/Department: Graduate School of Business
Location:     Statham Campus
IDD Tel. No.: +679 3231995         

E-mail: benedito.waqailiti(at)usp.ac.fj

Dr. Gurmeet Singh is Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Affairs) for the Faculty of Business and Economics, Associate Professor (Marketing and International Business) and Coordinator Post Graduate Program, School of Management and Public Administration, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of The South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He did his M.Phil and Ph.D. in Marketing Management from University of Jammu, Jammu, India. Dr. Gurmeet Singh has also won 2008 Japanese award for outstanding research on development during 10th Annual Global Development Conference that was held in Kuwait from Feb 1-5(2009). This prestigious international award carries citation and cash prize of US$ 35,000. http://www.gdnet.org/cms.php?id=gdn_development_research
Dr. Singh has over 18 years of experience in teaching, research, consultancy and executive training industries. He has worked both in India and abroad on various teaching assignments. His teaching, research and consulting interests include marketing, international marketing, consumer behavior, advertising management, customer service & customer satisfaction, e-governance and entrepreneurship. Dr. Singh has attended and presented/contributed papers in leading international conferences in the area of marketing and management.

Dr Atishwar Pandaram joined the Department of Management and Public Administration of the University of the South Pacific from the beginning of semester two in 2003. Earlier, he had his secondary and tertiary education in Fiji and Australia. His undergraduate specialization includes mathematics, science, accounting and financial management and economics. Furthermore, he possesses postgraduate qualifications in accountancy, management and economics. Dr Pandaram has industry experience, from both Fiji and Australia. These encompass management consulting, accountancy, taxation, and information technology. In addition, he has participated in a number of consultation projects. These include UNDP/UNESCO projects.

Dr. Sunil Kumar obtained a doctorate degree in economics from the University of Queensland, Master of Arts and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of the South Pacific. Currently, I am the Acting Head of School at USP. My current substantive position is Senior Lecturer in Economics in the School of Economics. I have numerous years of teaching experience in the areas of Econometrics, Development Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Economic Statistics and various other subjects. I have been involved in teaching Policy Analysis to Pacific Island Students. I have substantial experience in constructing Input-output Tables and using various econometric techniques for analysing economic and social data. I also have experience in using CGE Models for policy analysis. I have been involved in the analysis of poverty and migration for the World Bank research under the GDN project. I have done a number of workshops for the Government of Fiji in my capacity as an economist. I have recently worked for the Forum Secretariat on the EPA trade negotiations for three Pacific Island states. I have a number of publications in the areas of income distribution, poverty, economic sector analysis and migration, renewable energy and economic issues in general. I have also done an article on the effects of global economic crisis on PICs, which will be published in the Commonwealth Journal later this year. My contribution to policy in Fiji has come about through numerous avenues, including media but more formally through Fiji Economic Update. I have also contributed to development Dialogues in the region, namely Tonga and Kiribati.  

Dr. Drew Allbritten has been a recognized leader and dynamic reformer in public sector administration with program and policy expertise in public and private sector management, economic and community development, housing and labor, and in education and health care at the local, state, national and international levels.
In addition to leading five NGOs over his career, Dr. Allbritten also held several other prominent elected and appointed executive level positions. His public administration work also included promulgating federal regulatory and legislative initiatives (most significantly, the U.S. National Urban Policy, Federal Block Grants, Enterprise Zones, School-to-Work, Welfare-to-Work, E-Rate, and Tech Prep).  Allbritten has also advised high ranking foreign dignitaries from 36 nations on an array of public policy, economic and education issues.
As CEO of Transformation Strategy Consultants, Allbritten has led issue experts to consult and coach government, education, health care, NGO and corporate executives improving their organizational effectiveness.  He is expert in government relations and public policy advocacy, innovative economic and community development, anti-fraud and corruption detection, strategic planning and tactical partnership development, pipeline and service delivery, corporate and community relations, and in public and media relations.  For seven years, Allbritten served as a U.S. Presidential Appointee; and he was also an elected State Representative in the Michigan Legislature.
Dr. Drew Allbritten has written and edited numerous publications most of which are held in his name within the Adult Education Special Collections section at the Syracuse University Library. 

 The Honorable Dr. Drew Allbritten
BA, MA, EdS, EdD W.Michigan
Senior Fellow
School of Management and Public Administration

Dr C A Saliya Joined USP in March 2011 as a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance. He holds a PhD in Accounting/Banking from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He is a Chartered Accountant and a member of the Association of Professional Bankers (Sri Lanka) and also a CPA (Australia). He also holds a Diploma of Central Banking from the Central Bank of Sri Lanka. He was initially trained at KPMG and has worked in the fields of Auditing, Accounting, Finance and Banking for 21 years. He was the CFO of Seylan Bank while being the Executive Director of eight sister-companies/banks including a Savings Bank, a Development Bank, a Merchant Bank, an Assets Management Company (a Primary Dealer) a pension fund and a few ESOPs. He has served as a judge for several National competitions representing the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka.

He was a visiting lecturer to the Training Centers of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Seylan Bank and the Peoples Bank of Sri Lanka and the University of Colombo for 14 years. He was a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the AUT University, the University of Southern Queensland-Australia (in Auckland) and several Private Tertiary Institutions in New Zealand for seven years. Dr Saliya teaches Accounting, Financial Management, Management Accounting, Financial Institutions and Markets and Qualitative Research Methods at graduate, postgraduate and MBA levels.

Dr Saliya’s research interests include critical accounting, development finance, political cultural economy, decision-making theories and research methodology. He has published six research papers in National journals in Sri Lanka and has presented eight research papers at international conferences. He is presently working on four research papers for international academic journals.

He is a New Zealand citizen, married and a father of three children.

Rup is a Lecturer in the School of Economics (USP). He teaches postgraduate Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics and Business Statistics (for the MBA program). He posses strong empirical and modeling skills. Rup has working knowledge of statistical packages such as STATA, E-views, MicroFit and GEMPAC. His publications in the areas of monetary policy, trade and economic growth are in internationally ranked journals. He has recently completed his PhD in Growth Economics. He has won the Oceania Development Network (2011) research award and the Vice Chancellor’s Researcher Award (2010). He was awarded gold medal for the best Masters thesis (2007) which got published in USA. Rup has been consulted by various UN organizations for a number of research assignments concerning broader areas of economic growth and development challenges.

Richard Welford (Adjunct Professor), Chairman, CSR Asia and Professor, Hong Kong University and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). Professor RICHARD J. WELFORD is Chairman, CSR Asia. He is also Honorary Fellow, Kadoorie Institute, University of Hong Kong and Adjunct Professor, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He has longstanding teaching, publication and research interests in corporate social responsibility, environmental governance, Environmental Management Systems, international competitiveness. Professor Richard has published number of papers in refereed International Journals. He has also written16 books.
Currently he is editor for three prestigious journals (Business Strategy and the Environment; Sustainable Development; and Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management)

Dr. Jan Nowak (Adjunct Professor) is a Professor of Marketing at the Central European University’s Business School in Budapest, Hungary and a recurring Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Business, the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.  Dr. Nowak specializes in marketing and international business, the areas in which he teaches, conducts research, consults with companies, and develops and facilitates professional training courses. He commenced his professional career in Poland, where he received his Master of Management and Ph.D. in Business Administration degrees from Warsaw University. In 1990, he joined the University of New Brunswick in Saint John (UNBSJ). While on the Faculty of Business, UNBSJ, he directed an MBA program and a management training centre. At the same time, he participated in several international projects sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and traveled extensively to Asia and Central Europe. In 2001, he joined USP where he served as Professor of Business and Coordinator of the MBA Program. Dr. Nowak has published five books, more than 50 papers in international refereed periodicals and conference proceedings, numerous reports, working papers, book contributions, cases and other research outputs. His articles have appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of International Consumer Marketing, International Review of Retail, Distribution and Consumer Research, Journal of Transnational Management Development, Journal for East European Management Studies, East European Economics, The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries, Journal of Euro-marketing, Journal of East-West Business and Journal of International Food and Agribusiness Marketing. 
A frequent speaker at international conferences, Professor Nowak has served as a session and track chair for prestigious international management conferences. Between 1997 and 2008, he served on the Executive Board of the International Management Development Association (IMDA) and for several years was Treasurer of this professional organization.

Dr Gudergan (Adjunct Professor),PhD USyd & UNSW is a Professor of Strategy and his research focuses on managerial decision making concerning enterprise performance, innovation and governance in contexts such as alliance-, project- and service-based organisations.  His research has been published extensively and several of his doctoral students have won international awards.  He has been an invited presenter at colloquia such as the Doctoral Colloquium of the Business Strategy & Policy Division at the Academy of Management.  Furthermore, he is a grant assessor for the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Australian Research Council.  He has also been the Chair-Elect within the Strategic Management Society; an invited speaker at conferences including the Carnegie Bosch Institute Conference on Mergers, Acquisitions, Alliances and Networks; and invited Interregional Coordinator of the Special Interest Research Group on Strategic Alliances & Networks within the IMS Network of Excellence Program (European Union Funded). He also was a Founding Director of the Alliancing Association of Australasia and is a Chair within the International Centre for Complex Project Management.Prior to academia he has worked in business development and strategy roles with firms such as The Dun & Bradstreet Organisation, Price Waterhouse Australasia and Coopers & Lybrand Australia.

Danny Samson (Adjunct Professor) is Professor of Management at the University of Melbourne, was Head of the Department of Management in the Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and is Director of the Foundation for Sustainable Economic Development there.  He has an honours degree in chemical engineering (UNSW) and a PhD in management from the Australian Graduate School of Management (1984). He has published 100 articles and ten books, and his research and teaching interests are in decision analysis, operations strategy and management, and innovation and business strategy. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Operations Management. In 2011/2 his publications include articles in decision sciences Journal and Journal of Operations Management, and new books titled Implementing Strategic Change, and Management (Asia Pacific 4^th Edition). He is one of Australia’s leading executive educators, and directs the Masters of enterprise and of Supply Chain Management at the University of Melbourne.

Dr. Desmond U. Amosa is currently the Dean for the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship at the National University of Samoa (NUS). Prior to joining NUS, he was working as a senior official at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Commission in Samoa, and later on as a senior lecturer for the School of Management and Public Administration at the University of the South Pacific and an Advisor for the newly established Pacific Island Centre for Public Administration (PICPA). His main area of interest in teaching and researching is in local government, public policy and administration, administrative ethics, budgeting and public sector management. Desmond has published several journal articles on the public sector reforms in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. His latest journal publication – “Are Fiji’s Government Commercial Companies in Competent Hand?” is published in the Asia Pacific Journal of Public Administration vol(33) 2. This is in addition to his latest book: Social Policies in Samoa published in 2012 by the Commonwealth Secretariat and the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD).

Professor Francis Wilson, was an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Business. Prior to this appointment he was a Senior Lecturer at the Salford Business School, University of Salford in England. Before joining the University of Salford he was a Management Teaching Fellow in the Manchester School of Management at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, England where he completed a Doctorate in Computer-based Information Systems and Management. In his academic career he has gained an abundance of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience and curriculum development at a number of European universities in a range of management subjects. He has conducted research in the information systems field and the organisational management and strategy areas. His research papers have been published in journals such as the European Management Journal, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, Database, The Sociological Review, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Technology and People, The Journal of Strategic Information Systems, New Technology, Work and Employment and others.

Dr. Robert Hull earned a B.S. Degree in mathematics and physics, a M.S. Ed. degree in mathematics, and a Ph.D. in mathematical economics and econometrics all from Northern Illinois University, in the U.S.A. During his career he taught a variety of courses in the fields of mathematics, economics, finance, and decision science. He has been on the faculty of Illinois Benedictine University, Northern Illinois University, the University of Maryland, and Western Illinois University. Dr. Hull retired from Western Illinois University in 2001, where he now holds the title of Professor Emeritus. Since retirement he has been a Visiting Professor at the University of the Virgin Islands and the University of the South Pacific, teaching in Fiji and the Cook Islands. During his career he has taught in Australia, Malaysia, Holland, Spain, France, the Virgin Islands, Fiji, and the Cook Islands. His original interest was in the area of derivative securities, having received a grant from the Chicago Board of Trade to conduct a study on the T-Bill futures market. During the latter part of his career he focused on the area of real estate finance. He has taught Quantitative Business Analysis and Operations and Quality Management on the MBA Program.

Jeff Born is a Professor of Finance at North-eastern University in the United States. He earned a BS in Business Administration (1977) and a MA in Economics (1978) at Bowling Green State University (Ohio). In 1996 Professor Born was named one of the 25 most accomplished graduates of the CBA at BGSU. Dr. Born was awarded his Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986. He has been teaching International Finance, Investments and Financial Management since returning to Boston in January 2008. From January 2006 to December 2007 Jeff served as Professor and founding Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics at USP. Dr. Born has published 4 monographs, 24 articles in double blind refereed academic journals, and 8 articles have been publishing in editorial refereed academic and professional journals. Professor Born is in the top 3% of those who have published in the 16 academic journals that define the ‘core’ of finance literature in its first 50 years (1953-2002). He has taught Finance on the MBA Program.

Dr Lee Mathias, is a graduate of the Auckland School of Nursing and graduated with a BA (Soc.Sci) from Massey University in 1983 followed by an MBA from Auckland University in 1987. Following an interest in health issues Lee completed a certificate in Health Economics from Victoria University in 1990 and has just been examined for a DHSc from AUT University in Auckland. Her doctoral subject is “The shaping of decision-making in governance in New Zealand public healthcare services”. Lee maintains a portfolio of directorships in private management consulting and diagnostic companies and social enterprises (NGOs) and lectures in Change Management and Human Resource Management at AUT, Human Resource Management at USP and Governance in Healthcare at Auckland University. She is an accredited fellow of the IoD in New Zealand and the New Zealand Institute of Healthcare Managers. Lee’s academic interests focus on the health sector with a special interest in governance.

Stern Neill is an Associate Professor at the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University. Drawing on his years of industry and teaching experience, Stern specializes in marketing strategy, management and research. At the Orfalea College of Business, he teaches an innovative course on exploratory research methods to all marketing students. Stern’s research appears in Marketing Letters, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Global Marketing, Industrial Marketing Management, and others. He has also presented research at multiple academic conferences and serves on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing Management. To support his teaching and scholarly activities, he has generated over eighty-thousand dollars in grant funding.

Dr Cristanna M. Cook, Ph.D. (USA), visiting scholar from Husson in Bangor, Maine, USA, where she holds the position of Associate Professor of Business Administration. She is also Adjunct Professor of mathematics in the Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. She has been consultant to numerous international, national, and state-level organizations including non-profits. Her areas of interest and skill are economic and quantitative business analysis, marketing management, marketing research, international marketing, and computer technology including Web design. Dr Cook has taught Quantitative Business Analysis, Marketing, Human Resource Management and Business Economics on the USP MBA Program.

Ms Carol Frodey, MBA (USA), having previously taught in the Department of Management and Public Administration.  She has twenty years of experience in the banking industry in the USA, and has been teaching at USP since 1989. Ms Frodey teaches primarily by the case method.  She has taught Organisational Behaviour, New Venture Creation, Service Management, and Strategic Management on the MBA Programme.  She has also taught International Marketing, Financial Management for Non-Accountants, and general management courses. 

Professor Sally Stewart. Educated at the University of Oxford, Professor Stewart has taught at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, University of Hong Kong (where she also served as Head of the Department of Business Studies) and the University of Edinburgh. She has also lectured in several major Chinese universities. Professor Stewart taught and examined the whole range of courses from A-level to Ph.D., set up a Centre for the Study of Business Values and co-edited a book on the topic. Among her refereed publications are more than twenty five articles, including ones in the Journal of International Business Studies, the Columbia Journal of World Business and the Journal of General Management, and four books. Professor Stewart is at USP as a Rotary Foundation University Teacher. She has taught Business Economics on the MBA Program.

Dr. Acklesh Prasad is a lecturer in the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. Dr. Prasad earned a Ph.D. for the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, and B.A., Post Graduate Diploma in Accounting, M.A., and GCTT from the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. He earned University commendation (Gold Medals) for best graduating student in Computing Science in 2000, and best University-Wide M.A. Thesis in 2006. His doctoral dissertation proposal was nominated and later accepted for presentation and discussion at the prestigious 2009 International Conference in Information System (ICIS) (http://ai.arizona.edu/icis2009/) doctoral consortium, held at Biosphere 2 (http://www.b2science.org/) in Oracle, Arizona. Participation to the ICIS doctoral consortiums is by invitation only, with 20 proposals accepted from the U.S., and 20 from the rest of the world. Dr. Prasad has presented his research in leading international conferences in the area of business information systems. Dr. Prasad has also worked for the Reserve Bank of Fiji and the Fiji Development Bank. He teaches Management of Information on the MBA Program.

Dr. Tridib K. Biswas served as a Professor in the Graduate School of Business, Faculty of Business and Economics from August 2010 to July 2011.  Dr. Tridib K. Biswas was from 2007 the founding (acting) Dean of SolBridge International School of Business, the only fully English medium business school in South Korea. Earlier, he had been a Toronto-based academic, a corporate and a government economist, and an international consultant in for over three decades. He had taught at the University of Toronto (20 years) and the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University (9 years), and held visiting professorships at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Roorkee, and Management Development Institute (MDI), India. He has provided consultancy services in several countries of North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, to or to projects funded by the World Bank, the European Commission, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), USAID, Governments of Canada and India, Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), Ontario Hydro, Bechtel Corporation-USA, CPCS Transcom-Canada, Deloitte, Touche, Tohmatsu Emerging Markets-South Africa and the USA, PricewaterhouseCoopers-USA, Winrock International-USA, Gruppo Soges-Italy, the Confederation of Indian Industry, and others.
Dr. Biswas received his Ph.D. from Brown University, USA, M.A. in Economics from the University of Calcutta and a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from the Presidency College, Calcutta.

Prof Dr Ajit Patil Engineer-MBA with PhD in Marketing from Pune University, in India. Over 20 years of Industrial experience, at senior levels in Domestic Sales/ Marketing, International Marketing and also on Production shop-floor. Over 12 years of Academic experience, teaching Marketing subjects to Post Graduate Management students in India and overseas. Presently working as the Director with Mahatma Education Society’s management institute, PIMSR-HOC Campus, affiliated to Mumbai University, in India. Written Case Studies in international refereed journals. Recently a case study written by him was selected for the Annual Conference of North American Case Research Association (NACRA), In Boston, USA, in the Strategy track. Taught Marketing at University of South Pacific (USP) in Samoa and Tonga Campuses. Also taught his Case Study at Mercer University, Atlanta, USA. Academic interest: Retail, Marketing and Strategy.

Professor( Dr) A.S.Chawla  (age 54) is currently holding the position of Professor, School of Management Studies and Dean International Relations at Punjabi University, Patiala, India .He also holds the position of the Registrar the same university. Professor Chawla has been in the teaching Business Administration at masters level  for last 33 years. During this period he also worked for one and half years as Financial Advisor in Kenyan conglomerate and three and half years as Professor and Dean Business Faculty at KIST Kigali, Rwanda. He has been associated with Harvard Business School (USA) for Executive Education and coordinated the Program on Making Markets Work in East and South African region. He has been associated with Harvard Business School and participated in CPCL at Harvard Business School. Dr Chawla is Adjunct Professor at Wilkes University, USA and has also been involved with Wilkes University and Kutztown University for various academic activities.  Professor Chawla has got to his credit 48 publications in reputed journals and has also published ten books. Professor Chawla has handled many projects including projects for USAID, World Bank and World Vision, Ministry of Health, Rwanda. He is involved with numerous public and private sector undertakings for training consultancy. He is also on the board of directors of two companies in India.  Dr Chawla teaches Business Administration classes and handles subjects in the area of finance and general management.

David Parker (Visiting Fellow) BA MSc PhD CEng CertEd is a Senior Lecturer at the Business School, University of Queensland specialising in process analytics, project management and operations management. His consultancy and research interests include lean systems, strategic service operations, project-based management and supply chain management. His most recent book publications are Managing Projects, Mana aging People (20O8) Palgrave-McMillan, and Operating System Models in Operations Management: An integrated approach (2OO8), Cambridge University Press. He has extensive academic journal articles and conference papers; and has consulted to British Airways, Saab, Fonterra, Qld Treasury, Marks & Spencer, GE Money, HSBC, Tl Engineering, Triumph, Sports Girl, amongst numerous other international firms.

Brief Bio-data on DFIU, Mr Razim Buksh.

 Razim was appointed the Director of Fiji’s Financial Intelligence Unit in 2006.

Razim is a Financial Sector Specialist on anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) and has participated as an expert assessor on international review teams.

Razim has comprehensive knowledge, understanding and experience on AML/CFT compliance and regulatory requirements in Fiji.

Razim was instrumental in developing and implementing Fiji’s AML/CFT regime for the last 10 years. He is also the advisor to Ministry of Justice and the Reserve Bank of Fiji on national and international AML/CFT initiatives.

Razim has 23 years working experience with the Reserve Bank of Fiji.

Razim holds an Executive Fellowship in Governance from the Australia and New Zealand School of Government. He is a member of the Fiji institute of Internal Auditors and an associate member of the Fiji Institute of Bankers. Razim is married to Sofina and has 3 children.

Brief Bio-data for Lisa Apted
Lisa Apted is a tax partner with KPMG Fiji. In addition to her client responsibilities, she is also the firm's Ethics and Independence Partner and Risk Management Partner. Lisa started with KPMG as a graduate in July 1991, making this her 20th year with KPMG.

Lisa has a Bachelor of Commerce (in Accounting) from the Auckland University. She is a Chartered Accountant member of both the Fiji Institute of Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and is a Fiji registered tax agent. She is also a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Lisa is a past president and current Council member of the Fiji Institute of Accountants.

Lisa is a trustee of the Fiji Women’s Rights Movement and the Fiji New Zealand Education Trust.

Lisa is married to Bradley Bower (a MBA alumnus) and they have two boys, Connor (8) and Toby (5). A former active sportsperson, Lisa now likes spending her spare time with her children and with family and friends. 

Brief Bio-Data for Nouzab Fareed

Nouzab Fareed is the Acting CEO for Fijian Holdings Group. He is also a Board Member for all FHL Group companies. Since 2004, Fareed has served FHL as Group Chief Finance Officer and later GM Investments and Strategy. He is a Fellow of CPA Australia, Fellow of Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of UK and a fellow of Chartered Institute of Marketing of UK. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Fraud Examiner (USA). He has a MBA in Banking & Marketing in addition to a Master of Arts in International Economics. He completed a Diploma in International Relation in 2004. Fareed received executive training from Harvard Business School, Australian Graduate School of Management and AOTS Japan.

He is an Advanced Toastmaster and has been a lecturer and a public speaker for last 15 years. Public Speaking and SCUBA Diving are his passions.

Fareed has visited 45 countries and lives in Suva with his wife and three sons

Chairman

Mr Isikeli Tikoduadua

CEO Home Finance

Tel: 3316555
Email: isikelit(at)hfc.com.fj 

Committee Member

Dr. Kesaia Seniloli

Dean FBE, USP

Tel: 3232084
Email: seniloli_k(at)usp.ac.fj 

Committee Member

Prof. RD Pathak

Head of GSB, FBE, USP

Tel: 3231390
Email: raghuvar.pathak(at)usp.ac.fj 

Ms Sarika Singh

Business Manager

Email: singh_sr(at)usp.ac.fj
Telephone: (679) 3231360
Facsimile: (679) 3231397

Mr Amitesh Kumar

IT User Consultant

Email: kumar_at(at)usp.ac.fj 
Telephone: (679) 3231375
Facsimile: (679) 3231397