The listing below comprises both our full-time and adjunct faculty. Each of our teaching staff has advanced academic qualifications as well as many years senior practical experience in the finance industry. The unit/s taught by each member of the faculty are in brackets under their name.

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FRANK ASHE BA Macq, PhD UNSW

Associate Professor (Risk and Portfolio Construction, Financial Instruments)

Frank Ashe has worked in Australia and Canada for insurance companies, investment management firms, and in software development and consultancy. His 30 years of practical experience has been predominantly in the measurement and management of financial risk, with an emphasis on asset liability management, and developing risk measurement and management tools for novel situations; he works now as a consultant and company director. He is a regular presenter at industry seminars and colloquia, and is currently President of the Q-Group Australia. Frank has research interests in risk management, corporate governance, robustness of investment portfolio construction techniques, history and philosophy of economics, and the statistical underpinnings of Applied Finance.

DAVID BELL BMaths Newcastle (NSW), MAppFin Macq

Honorary Fellow (Hedge Funds)

David Bell runs his own boutique consulting / advisory business, St Davids Rd Advisory. David consults primarily to wholesale investors, asset managers and corporates across a range of different areas including hedge funds, portfolio and risk management, strategy and responsible investment practices. Prior to this David worked at Colonial First State for 12 years, the last six of which he ran the Fund of Hedge Funds business. David has previously worked in risk management, fixed interest portfolio management and corporate finance roles across the banking and funds management industry.

TONY CARLTON BComm (Hons), MComm (Hons) UNSW

Fellow (Corporate Finance and Project Analysis and Evaluation)

Tony Carlton has over 25 years' experience in the manufacturing, resource and agricultural industries. He has held senior positions in CSR including Treasurer, and General Manager Finance and Strategy, and was a member of the senior executive team. Tony has had extensive experience in all aspects of corporate finance and strategy, including project evaluation, financial strategy and policy, debt management, financial risk management, strategic portfolio analysis and the development and execution of growth strategies. He has managed a number of large acquisitions and divestments both in Australia and overseas, and a number of large scale balance sheet restructurings. He also led the introduction of Value Based Management within CSR. Tony is currently undertaking a PhD at the MAFC.

ROGER CASEY BEc MEc Macq, ACA

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Roger Casey is on the Board and Executive Committee of Gresham Partners Limited, a leading independent Australian investment and advisory house. He has over 20 years' experience in the Australian corporate finance sector, having worked with Turnbull & Partners (1987–92), Gresham Advisory Partners (1993–99), ABN Amro (2000–02) and, most recently, Gresham Private Equity (2003–10). His experience spans corporate advisory, initial public offerings, mergers & acquisitions, leveraged finance and management buy outs. Roger has a Bachelor of Economics and Master of Economics from Macquarie University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

STÉPHANE CHATONSKY BA ESSEC Paris, MBA Penn (Wharton), FAICD

Honorary Fellow (Private Equity Investment)

Stéphane Chatonsky started his career as an investment banker in Europe working on IPOs and privatisations for Lazard Freres & Co. He then joined McKinsey & Co and advised corporates in the telecommunications, financial services and media sectors. He subsequently joined the venture capital team of Macquarie Bank where he advised, invested in and managed early stage companies. Stéphane then joined Telecom New Zealand working on the corporate strategy for the Group, M&A and Investments. From 2003 to 2009, Stéphane established and ran his own practice — advising private equity, venture capital funds, family offices and their portfolio companies on a broad range of issues. As such, he led or was directly involved in over 20 private equity transactions. Stéphane is now a Principal of Leapfrog Investments, the first global private equity fund focused on businesses that meets the insurance and related financial needs of low-income people in developing countries in Asia and Africa. He has been a mentor to senior executives of the not-for-profit and profit-with-purpose sectors with Social Ventures Australia and a Director of the Pathways Foundation.

STEVE CHRISTIE BCom LLB (Hons) ANU, LLM Syd, MAppFin PhD MQU, FFin, MAICD

Program Director, China, Associate Professor (Private Wealth Management, Investments)

Steve has almost 20 years' experience in finance and investments, specializing in private wealth management. Prior to joining the Applied Finance Centre, Steve was Head of Private Wealth Management at Ord Minnett, where he ran the Australian national wealth advisory and financial planning businesses. Previously Steve worked at Goldman Sachs JBWere in a range of senior roles, including Senior Portfolio Manager, Asset Allocation Strategist and Head of Asset Allocation for the Private Wealth Management business. Currently Steve is a Director of the Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund, where he also serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee, which is responsible for in excess of AUD4 billion worth of retirement assets. He is also a member of the Investment Committee for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, a Special Adviser to CJC Global private wealth advisors and has been a judge of the Australian Private Banking Awards since 2009.

DAMON COLBERT BComm (Hons), MAppFin Macq

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Treasury Management)

Damon Colbert has over 20 years' experience in the areas of corporate finance, treasury, asset and balance sheet management. He is currently Assistant Treasurer for AWB Ltd, Australia's largest agribusiness and one of the world's largest wheat marketing and management companies. Previously, Damon was CEO & Treasurer for Allco Max Securities & Mortgage Trust, a publicly listed managed investment scheme established by the Allco Finance Group. Damon has comprehensive corporate finance and treasury management skills, including funding, liquidity and risk management. Damon has prior investment banking experience in the origination and execution of domestic and international securities and loans for Australian corporates, government entities and infrastructure projects.

ANNE COOPER BEc (Hons) Adel, PhD Syd, Dip FP

Deputy Director & Associate Professor (Investments)

Anne Cooper joined the Faculty with fifteen years of banking experience, specialising in balance sheet management issues. Anne held executive positions in the Institutional and Funds Management/ Insurance arms of a major Australian Bank and her industry experience lead to the introduction of Balance Sheet Management as an elective topic in the Centre's Masters of Applied Finance Program. Anne is currently a member of AFMA's Advisory Board.

DAN DAUGAARD BEc MEc Macq, CFA

Fellow (Investments, Applied Portfolio Management)

Dan Daugaard was previously an Associate Director with a large Australian fund manager and has extensive experience in managing portfolios and developing new investment products. Dan has a reputation for devising entertaining and engaging methods to explain complex finance principles. He has also consulted to a wide range of enterprises on the use of derivative instruments and the application of investment concepts. Dan's research interests include stock selection techniques for equity and fixed interest markets, optimal portfolio construction, screened investments, dynamics strategies and asset/liability management.

SUSAN EDWARDS BA LLB Syd, LLB (Hons) Lond, MAppLing Macq.

Fellow (Legal Risk in Finance)

Susan has wide experience in many areas of the law. She has worked as in house counsel for Rio Tinto and has been a partner with Freehills, one of Australia's largest law firms. She has been involved in negotiating major commercial and financial transactions in her roles as corporate lawyer and commercial partner and has been accredited as a mediator. She is currently researching in the area of the impact of language, in its broadest sense, on the teaching of law and finance, and how language impacts on communication in financial negotiations.

JEFF HALL BSc Kans, MComm UNSW, ACA, AICPA, CFA

Honorary Fellow (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Jeff Hall is the managing director of boutique corporate advisory group Sumner Hall Associates, a firm specializing in all aspects of M&A work. Prior to establishing Sumner Hall Associates in 2002, Jeff was a director and substantial shareholder of Grant Samuel and had held those positions since 1988. While at Grant Samuel, Jeff was involved in all aspects of M&A work including advising on takeovers, mergers and schemes of arrangement, negotiating various M&A transactions, advising on capital raising and initial public offerings and undertaking complex valuation assignments in relation to M&A transactions. This work continues at Sumner Hall Associates with assignments over the past three years including mining companies Rio Tinto, Felix Resources, White Mining and MPI Mines; infrastructure company GasNet; media companies News Corporation and Publishing & Broadcasting Limited, retailer Coles Myer and a variety of other companies.

JAMES HAY BSc Mon, MBA Cornell, B Litt (Hons) Melbourne

Honorary Fellow (Resources Industry Investment Analysis)

James Hay has worked in the resources industry for over 20 years. He began his career with WMC Ltd, working in the corporate treasury department and then as a financial analyst in the gold, nickel and energy business units. James is currently an independent consultant to the mineral and energy industries. His engagements have involved modelling and analysis of fiscal regimes, gas sales contracts, business planning systems, equity divestments and project evaluations. His clients have included companies such as Shell, Placer Dome, Minara Resources, Xstrata, and Exxon Mobil. Over the past eight years, James has also established a training business that provides in house financial education to resource companies throughout Asia.

DAVID JIANG Dip Interpreting RMIT, BComm LLB Grad Dip Law Melbourne

Honorary Fellow (Equity Capital Markets)

David joined the Macquarie Group in 2005 and has been involved in a number of important transactions covering principal investments, takeovers, IPOs and other capital raisings. David's recent focus has been on Hong Kong IPOs, including the execution of the US$2.6 billion IPO of China Railway Construction Corporation Limited and US$613 million IPO of China South Locomotive & Rolling Stock Corporation on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2008.

Marion Johnstone BBus, MAppFin Macq

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Treasury Management)

Marion Johnstone is Group Treasurer at CSR Limited, where she is responsible for management of capital, financial risk, and a small treasury team. She played a leading role in CSR's corporate restructuring transactions over the last 10 years, including most recently the disposal of the Sucrogen sugar business to the listed Singapore entity Wilmar International in December 2010, and the demerger of the Rinker Group. As part of the disposal of a major business, Marion arranged new financing structures for both CSR and the Sucrogen business, the establishment of new treasury management systems and a new sugar-based treasury team. Prior to the demerger of the Rinker heavy building materials business in 2003, she was Group Corporate Finance Manager, covering capital and a range of M&A activities, including refinancing for both the CSR and Rinker businesses. Marion joined CSR in 1995, from the role of Senior Manager in Westpac's Capital Markets & Syndications area, having spent 12 years in a range of institutional banking roles covering all aspects of risk and funding.

PETER JOLLY BAgrSc Lincoln, MSc Economics Lond

Honorary Fellow (Economics of Financial Markets)

Peter is currently Head of Research and Managing Director for National Australia Bank in Sydney. Peter has been in this role for the past decade, growing the team in this time to now have members in Australia, London and NZ with research disciplines covering macroeconomics, credit research and financial market strategists. Prior to this role, Peter was Head of Market Economics at the Bank of New Zealand and prior to that worked as a macroeconomic forecaster and researcher with the Reserve Bank of New Zealand. Peter's own research work is focussed on macroeconomics, the financial and banking system, and investment strategies for fixed interest markets.

LARRY LEABEATER BEcon (Hons) Syd

Honorary Fellow (Balance Sheet Management)

Larry Leabeater has worked in bank Treasuries for around 20 years. Larry set up the Balance Sheet Management function at St. George Bank. This included interest rate risk measurement and management, funds transfer pricing, liquidity management policies and modelling and the bank's economic capital allocation. Larry has also worked at the Commonwealth Bank, helping to implement new international reporting standards, and at Westpac, where he led the risk reporting and transfer pricing team. Most recently, he has been assisting ING Direct with its interest rate risk management submission to APRA.

BERND P. LUEDECKE BSc Mon, BA (Hons) Macq, MS PhD Wisconsin

Associate Professor (Financial Risk Management, Interest Rate Portfolio Management)

Bernd Luedecke has over ten years of "street" experience dealing in bank bills, bonds, FX, swaps and swaptions, futures, options and other derivative instruments as a proprietary trader and risk manager/taker. During Bernd's years in the markets he was witness to and involved in some fascinating instances of risk-taking. Bernd's work experience includes time spent with Bank of New Zealand (Australia), Merrill Lynch (in Sydney, New York and London), Tokyo-Mitsubishi Bank and Westpac. Bernd has written several articles on swaps and contributed a chapter to the book "Global Swap Markets". He has developed large-scale swap portfolio risk management software which is considered state-of-the-art.

SHANE MAGEE BCom Newcastle (NSW), MAppFin PhD Macq

Fellow (Financial Instruments)

Shane Magee has over 10 years' experience in the finance industry. Shane was a Senior Vice President in the Corporate Treasury division of Citigroup where he was responsible for funding, managing currency and interest rate risks, liquidity management, funds transfer pricing and capital planning. Shane has been involved in structured funding transactions and has participated as an end user in the money market, spot and forward foreign exchange markets and swaps market. Shane's research interests include investigating why firms hedge and whether hedging adds shareholder value.

CATRIONA MARCH BSc MSc Syd, PhD Macq

Honorary Fellow (Exotic Options)

Catriona has more than twenty five years' experience in the finance industry, including fifteen years as a quantitative analyst concerned with the pricing and hedging of exotic options in the dealing room of Westpac Institutional Bank and in Market Risk Management. She has also worked at Macquarie Bank, Australian Gilt Securities and various software companies. She is currently a Senior Quantitative Analyst in the Analytical Solutions Group in the Westpac Financial Markets. Catriona has taught the Exotics Options unit in the Masters of Applied Finance program since 1999 and completed a PhD at the MAFC on pricing methods for exotic options in 2009.

PATRICK McCONNELL BSc QUBelfast, MSc Westminster, D.B.A Dip Mgmt Cons Henley/Brunel, FBCS, C.Eng., CITP, GAICD

Honorary Fellow (Managing Operational Risk)

Patrick McConnell is a partner with Risk Trading Technology, a small consultancy specialising in IT and Risk Management. In over 20 years in the financial industry, Patrick has worked with investment banks in the US, Europe and Australia to develop and implement IT strategies to support all aspects of risk management (Credit, Market and Operational). Patrick has also published articles on the application of IT to Finance and Risk Management in academic and practitioner journals.

Neil McDermott BE Syd, MCom MEngSc UNSW, FAICD, FIEAust, FAIM FAPI ACA

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Neil has some 25 years' experience in corporate advisory including public and private capital raisings; mergers and acquisitions; business valuations; business restructuring and privatisation. His main focus is strategic and financial advice relating to: infrastructure, including energy and water utilities; transport; banking and finance; and property and property trusts. He has advised private sector investors, Governments, or their SOCs, on strategic and privatisation matters in all Australian States, the ACT, and a range of countries in Asia and the Pacific. He has been a non executive director, or Chairman, of stock exchange listed companies; SOCs; or unlisted private companies and is currently Director of an unlisted junior mining investment company with interests in SE Asia. He was previously, a Corporate Finance partner in an international financial services firm, and a member of the Faculty of Commerce at UNSW where he introduced and taught the first postgraduate course in International Corporate Finance.

Max Morley BEc Qld, GAICD, F Fin.

Honorary Fellow (Credit Portfolio Management)

Max Morley is currently Head of Westpac Institutional Bank for Queensland. Max has 30 years' experience as a practitioner in interest rate/foreign exchange derivatives and debt capital markets in trading, sales, relationship and senior management positions. He has worked in London, Sydney and Wellington and is currently based in Brisbane.

BILJANA NIKOLOVA BComm, MComm, PhD UNSW

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Biljana Nikolova has over ten years' experience in a variety of private equity, corporate finance and institutional banking roles in Australia. Biljana currently holds the position of an Associate Director with Integrated Capital Solutions (ICS), NAB's captive private equity business. Prior to joining ICS in 2008, Biljana held corporate finance and capital structuring advisory roles with other large financial institutions. Biljana has been involved in the execution of a number of private equity transactions and has provided capital structuring advise to major publicly listed corporations in Australia. Biljana holds a PhD in Finance from UNSW with a focus on emerging markets investments.

JEFF OUGHTON BEc (Hons), Newcastle, MBA AGSM UNSW

Honorary Fellow (Economics of Financial Markets)

Jeff has researched and presented on economic and financial issues for the past 3 decades. Currently, he is a Principal of a financial institution & a market advisory in a team of balanced, independent and multidiscipline practitioners. For 17 years, Jeff led NAB's Australian economics & industry intelligence team that forecasts, economic and financial conditions, assesses macroeconomic and industry opportunities for its customers in Australia, NZ, the UK and the US. Jeff has specialised in competition policy and the supervision of the financial systems He was involved in a range of strategic activities at NAB as well as operational issues. Before joining NAB, Jeff spent a decade with the RBA in both economic analysis and financial markets including over 2 years as Deputy Chief Rep in New York where he managed Australia's USD reserves and oversaw the RBA foreign exchange activities. Jeff has previously taught, Securities Institute of Australia, UNSW and the Bankers' Administrative Staff College.

ANDREW PALMER BSc (Hons) Wales, MEc UWA MBA Columbia.

Honorary Fellow (Debt Capital Markets)

Following a short stint in Commercial Mortgages at JPMorgan in New York, Andrew became the first dedicated Credit Derivatives salesperson in the market at a time when a Credit Default Swap was negotiated line by line. He ran the sales force for the product in North America as the product developed and was central to most industry initiatives in the development of the market. Andrew then took on responsibility for structured credit as the synthetic market became more important and eventually took over both businesses globally, building the largest and most successful business on the street with market share always above 30%. He moved to London in 2004 in the same capacity as much of the activity had migrated to that location. In 2005 Andrew left JPMorgan to become CEO of Scotia Capital Europe and Head of Capital Markets for Europe and Asia before retiring and relocating to Australia in 2009.

GORDON PREECE BA MA Sydney, ThL (Hons) Moore, Dip. Min ACT, BD (Hons) London, MScSoc UNSW, PhD Fuller

Honorary Fellow (Ethical Risk in Finance)

Gordon Preece has worked for churches, with the Education Program for Unemployed Youth and taught professional ethics at tertiary level for 20 years, including directing centres for applied ethics. His specialty is the ethics of work, professions and business. Gordon has written or edited eleven books including "Christianity and Entrepreneurship" and "Changing Work Values". He has lectured in universities in Sydney and Melbourne and in the US, Canada, Cambridge (UK), New Zealand and St Petersburg. He has wide local and global experience of workplace ethics. Gordon was Director of Macquarie Christian Studies Institute and Urban Seed, Melbourne, a not for profit working with marginalized people, corporates and educational bodies. He is now ethicist for Christian Super, adjunct lecturer in Ethics for Ridley College Melbourne and Director of ethos: EA Centre for Christianity and Society.

ELIZABETH SHEEDY BComm UNSW, PhD Macq, DipBibStud.

Associate Professor (Modelling Market Risk, Financial Risk Management)

Elizabeth Sheedy has worked in the finance industry for a number of institutions including Macquarie Bank and Westpac. Her industry experience was primarily in engineering structured derivative products for corporate and institutional clients. She had a special interest in the management of currency risks, developing the first Australian currency overlay product for asset portfolios. Since joining the Centre in 1993, she has undertaken several consulting roles relating to the use of derivatives by investors and fund managers. Elizabeth has co-edited a book on derivatives, a book on financial risk management and is on the Education Committee for PRMIA (Professional Risk Manager's International Association). Her current research and teaching focus is in financial risk management (for banks, fund managers and non-financial institutions) as well as volatility clustering and its application to modelling risk.

RICHARD TINSLEY BSc Mich, MSc Columbia

Honorary Fellow (Project Finance)

Richard Tinsley is President of International Advisory & Finance, a network of firms in the resources, power and infrastructure sectors in Sydney, Melbourne, New York, Boston, California, London, Johannesburg, and Bombay. Richard is an engineer/economist/banker with some 30 years' experience, mostly as a strategic/financial advisor or as the lead banker on numerous transactions — at last count in 34 countries. He has worked in five countries — Ireland, Canada, USA, UK and Australia. In the finance field, Richard has been project finance director at Continental Bank (Chicago); European Banking Company (London); and Prudential-Bache Capital Funding and Indosuez Australia (Sydney, Australia). Projects have ranged from Australia's first privatisation by way of a project financing (and the largest equity issue to that date); Victoria's first PPP cogeneration transaction; all the way to a $400 million fertiliser development (with railway) in Sri Lanka — all in the lead/advisor role.

ROB TREVOR BEc (Hons) Syd, MA PhD Princeton

Associate Professor (Derivatives Valuation and PhD Program)

Rob Trevor is also the Head of Quantitative Research (Hedge) for MIR Investment Management. He has provided derivatives and risk management advice to a number of institutional clients (including Bankers Trust, BT Fund Management, Grant Samuel and Macquarie Bank) as well as Promontory Financial Group Australasia, the Australian Securities Commission and the Australian Stock Exchange. Rob is a founding member and currently Vice-President of the Q Group Australia and a member of the Advisory Board of The Research Foundation of the CFA Institute. He joined the Centre following academic appointments at Princeton University and the Australian Graduate School of Management. Prior to that he spent 15 years with the Reserve Bank of Australia. Rob also oversees the Centre's PhD and Research programs. Rob's research has been published in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Business & Economic Statistics and the Journal of Risk.

JULIAN TURECEK BE(Chem)(Hons) BCom Melb; MAppFin Macq

Honorary Fellow (Carbon Finance)

Julian Turecek has an extensive background in the energy and greenhouse markets, having worked for major Australian corporates such as BHP Petroleum and Origin Energy. He is currently Executive General Manager, Marketing at Loy Yang Marketing Management Company, and as such is responsible for one of Australia's largest carbon exposures. His background includes trading spot and contract electricity and gas, setting up Origin's Carbon Markets desk, working in policy and government affairs focusing on climate change policy, and most recently being an investment manager for a venture capital firm specialising in the cleantech sector. He is an graduate of the Applied Finance Centre at Macquarie where he completed a Master’s thesis on "Pricing Carbon in the Capital Markets".

PETER VANN BSc MSc PhD UQ

Honorary Fellow (Financial Instruments)

Peter Vann has worked for 22 years in the investment and risk management industry. Peter is Head Investment Research at Constellation Capital Management and prior to that had roles such as Head of Structured Investments Group at County and also at Westpac and DBSM where he was responsible for managing equities, fixed interest and protection mandates. Peter also undertook financial forecasting and balance sheet modelling assignments, for a wide range of insurers and other financial related entities, to determine P&L, capital adequacy, and risk assessment an management. Peter founded the Q Group Australia, is a member of Finsia's Policy Advisory Council and the Editorial Advisory Panels of two industry journals.

JAMES WADDELL BCom UNSW, MAppFin Macq, ASA

Honorary Fellow (Debt Capital Markets)

James Waddell has over 20 years' experience in various roles in the financial markets. James has worked across money, foreign exchange, derivative and debt capital markets based in Sydney. Currently James is a director in the Capital Markets Group at National Australia Bank, previous roles have covered both domestic and offshore capital market roles, as well as domestic derivatives and foreign exchange sales roles. James is active in various industry forums and associations.

CHRIS WHITE BTh MA (King's College London), FIA, FIAA, MAICD, Hon FASFA

Honorary Fellow (Ethical Risk in Finance)

Chris White is an actuary who worked for over thirty years for the consultancy Towers Perrin (now part of Frank Russell in Australia) in superannuation consulting, asset consulting and management roles, in Australia and Europe. Since retiring early he has studied Christian ethics (which he teaches part-time); his major interests are in business and professional ethics, the relationship between faith and economics, and the economics of the Canadian philosopher Bernard Lonergan. He is a member of a number of boards and committees in both the for profit and not for profit sectors.

DAVID WING BComm LLB UQ, MTax UNSW, MAppFin Macq

Honorary Fellow (Infrastructure and Property)

David Wing has over 17 years' experience in corporate finance and as an advisor and arranger of development and investment capital. David has acted for many of Australia's leading construction companies as well as participating in numerous private and public capital raisings for a wide range of businesses and industries. In that capacity he has undertaken a variety of roles not solely as an advisor but also as a principal, where he has lead the establishment of consortiums to undertake infrastructure projects in Queensland and Victoria. His experience places him in a unique position to provide practical and pragmatic advice from a ‘hands-on' perspective, especially in relation to projects involving diverse stakeholder groups and interaction with all levels of Government and associated agencies and Departments.

Roland Winn BEc (Hons) PhD Syd

Honorary Fellow (Corporate Finance)

Roland Winn has 14 years of investment industry experience and has been Portfolio Manager for International Equities at Hunter Hall International Ltd since July 2009. Roland was formerly Head of Research Strategy and member of the Investment Committee at CP2, a global investor specialising in listed and unlisted infrastructure and global equities. Roland's prior responsibilities included construction of the global investment portfolios, determination of investment criteria on investment prospects, monitoring of key risks in the portfolios, maintaining technical leadership of the investment analysis teams and delivery of risk-adjusted excess returns on $3bn of AUM. He was also responsible for the bidding and acquisition of direct infrastructure assets at CP2. Roland previously led the Corporate Advisory division at Capital Partners Pty Ltd, after having joined it as an Equity Analyst in 1997.

JULIA YANG BEc, MEc Tsinghua (Beijing), MBA Harvard

Special Advisor & Senior Lecturer (Private Equity Investment)

Julia Yang has wide range and extensive finance industry experience, with a particular focus on private equity investment and M&A. Most recently Julia worked with Bain Capital China, where she was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, executing and managing private equity deals. Previously, Julia had a successfully career with McKinsey & Company, where over a number of years she advised both Chinese and global firms on target screening, acquisition execution and post-merger integration of M&A deals. Her career and education have taken her across Asia, Europe and the Unites States. As a Chinese national with solid private equity experience, Julia is highly sought after for her knowledge and insights in these areas.