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Biography

 

Name:

• Ruth Dunkin

 

Nationality:

• Australian

 

Recent Positions:         

• CEO and Vice-Chancellor RMIT University
• Senior Consultant, Strategic Mgt. Associates
• Research Coordinator, Global Foundation

 

 

Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Strategic and organisational review.Within the context of global change and structural industry change, strategic analysis of organisations, including governance arrangements, for sustainable development.
• Organisational change and business improvement in complex public and private sector environments..
• Team building, leadership development and capacity-building to develop the capabilities needed for more effective strategy implementation.
• Public policy development and evaluation with a focus on economic and social development, innovation and community engagement.

 

Recent research, development and consultancy and organisations:

• Strategy reviews of two network organisations, including competitor analysis
• Review of organisation structure and strategy for a large educational institution
• Strategy review for industry association
• Feasibility study for new roundtable businesses in the medical tourism and aging fields
• Conduct of professional development program for a road construction firm
• Provision of advice within feasibility study for a proposed private educational institution.
• Research coordination for Global Foundation – a non-partisan citizens’ body focused on Australia’s future development

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

• PhD (Melb.) Thesis: ‘Making Sense of Change: The Change Agents Perspective’
•  MPA (Harvard)   Economics and public policy
• Grad. Dip. Mgt (UCQ) Management
•  BA (Hons.) (Melb.) Political Science
• Member, Victoria Forests Industry Association

 

Selected Publications:

History

Member for

2 years 25 weeks