Dr. Jamal Roudaki

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Dr. Jamal Roudaki – Adjunct academic, and sessional lecturer at the University of Wollongong NSW, Australia, earned a PhD in Accounting and Finance from the University of Wollongong, Australia and a MBA from the Central Missouri State University (Missouri, USA). Jamal has three decades of teaching experience in Australia, Dubai, Iran, and New Zealand. He is well published with over 19 journal articles and five conference papers in the past six years. Jamal has extensive experience in supervising research-based higher education degrees—with four PhD theses currently active and seven complete; 12 Masters theses completed. He, also, has extensive experience in University Administration and service.

Dr. Gabriela Lopes

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Dr. Gabriela Lopes – TIIS Adjunct academic, recently joined The Institute of International Studies (TIIS), has extensive teaching experience at the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Dr. Lopes completed her Master of Management at ACU and holds a PhD from Macquarie University. Parallel with her academic career, Gabriela has served in strategic postings in the private and not-for-profit sectors. Prior to coming to Australia in 2003, she held strategic and quality management positions in one of the biggest not-for profit hospitals in Brazil. In Australia she co-founded a family transport business, and (in the Australian finance sector) she currently formulates long-term wealth management strategies for clients.

Carlo Soliman

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Mr. Carlo Soliman – TIIS Adjunct academic, a founding member and managing partner of a specialist commercial law firm in Sydney, specialises in tax law and ethics has extensive experience as a senior commercial and property lawyer. Carlo provides regulatory advice and representation to several universities and private higher education providers on legal, risk-management, and ethical issues. Carlo is also a university lecturer and publishes in the area of company, property and business law.

Dr. Chris Wright

PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Dr Chris Wright – Program Co-ordinator at The Institute of International Studies. Chris has over 40 years of experience in industry and higher education, across seven countries. He has been the Professor of Accounting at three Institutions, the Head of School at one, and the Director of an education Centre at another. He was an Internal Auditor for a major international wood fibre corporation for five years, ran three small businesses, a small research institute, and has been on the boards of five NGOs. Chris is the associate editor of the Journal of Accounting and Finance, North American Business Press and a member of the editorial board and/or review board for 16 journals. Chris recently published an article in an A-ranked Journal (A* in North America).

Dr. Jack Jia

SENIOR ACADEMIC

Dr Jack Jia – Senior Lecturer in Accounting at TIIS, received his PhD in Accounting from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy. He has also held prior visiting research appointments with the University of Adelaide and Western Sydney University. Jack has taught management accounting and financial accounting subjects at both public universities and private Higher Education Providers in Australia and Italy, and he is a reviewer of the Achievement Matters project calibrating Australian Accounting Learning Standards. His research interest spans corporate insider trading, IFRSs, Christian Finance, and sustainability accounting. His professional experience includes overseas inter-company accountant and Consultant for Internal Controls. Additionally, Jack is an academic member of The Association of International Accountants (UK), a member of Sustainability Accounting Standards Board Alliance (USA) and the General Secretary of The Christian Finance Observatory (France).

Dr. Samanthala Hettihewa

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Dr Samanthala Hettihewa – TIIS Adjunct academic, is also a learning facilitator at Torrens University Australia and an adjunct academic at The Institute of International Studies. Previously she was a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Federation University Australia, has taught and researched in five countries (Australia, Canada, NZ, Sri Lanka and USA). She has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles (including highly prestigious ones such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Small Business Economics and Health Population: Perspectives and Issues), many peer-reviewed conference papers, several university textbooks and case studies published by world renowned publishers. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Fellow in FINSIA (the largest industry organisation in finance in the Australasian region), and an associate member of Financial Planner Australia (FPA). Dr Hettihewa’s research interests include: capital markets, corporate governance, microfinance, small business and regional economic policies, and business ethics. Samantha recently published an article in an A-ranked Journal (A* in Europe).

Dr. Yves Tam

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Dr Kwok Leung (Yves) Tam – TIIS Adjunct academic, brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and integrity to TIIS. Dr. Tam holds a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Missouri, Columbia. His primary area of research is time-series analysis with a specialization in econometrics, and he has an interest in computational statistics, statistical modelling, multivariate statistics, and analysis of correlated data. He has taught a variety of statistics, economics, and finance subjects at undergraduate and graduate levels. Yves has taught Murdoch University’s MBA programs, the University of Sydney, the University of New South Wales, Australian Catholics University, and UTS: Insearch. His industry experience includes a decade as a Business Analysis in the Business Development Department of United Parcel Services.

Dr. Robin Gao

ADJUNCT ACADEMIC

Dr Yifan (Robin) GAO – TIIS Adjunct academic, and sessional lecturer at the Western Sydney University (City campus), was awarded a PhD (computer science) from Macquarie University Australia. Previously he was a sessional lecturer in computing department at Macquarie University Australia and Charles Sturt University Sydney. He has published five peer-reviewed conference and journal paper including cognitive science, environmental design, virtual reality learning and facial expression analysis. His research interests include: virtual reality, linear and non-linear pattern recognition, cognitive learning analysis.

Dora Qian

IT SUPPORT & ADMISSIONS

Neelima Kotapati

STUDENT SERVICES TEAM LEAD

Dr. Daley Mok

LEARNING CENTRE MANAGER

Dr. Daley Mok – TIIS Learning Centre Manager (Librarian), earned a Doctor of Business Administration with a thesis on corporate governance and has a Master of Business Administration, a Master of Laws (specialising in international business law), and a Master of Information Studies. He is, also, a Certified Practising Accountant (CPA Australia) with 25 years of auditing, accounting and finance experience in Hong Kong, mainland China, Australia and America. His business experience includes being a Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director of a US-listed corporation. He is passionate in connecting the academic field with the business world via research interests in corporate governance, corporate financial performance, and information costs.

Phil Lau

IT SUPPORT OFFICER

Mr. Phil Lau, IT Support Officer, is an accredited Project Management Professional for more than ten years starting from 2003. He is recently re-certified as Certified Professional (CP) in ACS. He also works for a renowned LMS (Learning Management System) called Edumate – an Australian made LMS acquired by Canadian listed company called Hobsons in recent years. He is a native communicator, and his expertise includes: Customer Relationship Building, Knowledge Consolidation, Business and Data Analysis, System Integration ( ETL / BI / DW implementation ), Systems Design and Build ( ASP, C#.NET / AJAX / MVC , web services ), Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) documentation