CITBA Professoriate

Professor Babacan is a Senior Research Fellow, Rural Economies Centre of Excellence. She has a distinguished 25-year business career and scholarship in research, teaching and learning and community and professional service. She has held senior roles in higher education, public administration, and research and training such as Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic and Research), Dean, Head of School and Director of research Institutes. She was the Foundation Director of the Cairns Institute (2009-2012) and Director of the Institute for Community, Engagement and Policy Alternatives at Victoria University.

Professor Adrian Kuah FRSA is the first Full Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at James Cook University and founder of the Circular Economy and Sustainability program at the Cairns Institute in 2017. Throughout his career, he has published nearly 100 research papers and secured over $900,000 in grants from organizations in the UK, Finland, France, Australia, and Singapore. He is recognized as one of the top 2.5% of circular economy researchers globally by ScholarGPS and ranks among the top six in this field on Scopus. Professor Kuah made impactful contributions to the field as a member of Singapore’s Committee for Circularity of Material and International Expert at the International Organization of Standardization. He served as Head of Delegation for Singapore at ISO/TC 323 meetings in Brazil and Rwanda and is one of two ISO experts appointed to advance standardization of ISO 59000 across 13 developing countries in East, Southeast and South Asia. In 2024, he was honored with the title of Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in London for his ongoing contributions to sustainability.

Dr. Peter S. Hofman is Professor of Business at James Cook University (Singapore Campus). He also serves as Director of Postgraduate Studies (Business). His teaching and research broadly covers business-government-society interaction in the areas of sustainability and innovation from a policy as well as business perspective.

Emmanuel Adegbite is visiting Professor of Governance and Management. His published works on management accounting, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility and corporate finance have been widely cited and have, in collaboration, secured $1million SGD. He serves as Associate Editor for Business Ethics: A European Review (BEER) and is on the editorial boards of Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility. Emmanuel works closely with business leaders and policy influencers in implementing good corporate governance standards, and in developing strategies for instrumental corporate social responsibility.

Professor Ng's research focuses on managing diversity for organizational competitiveness, the changing nature of work and organizations, and managing across generations. He has served as Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Theme Committee of the Academy of Management and the Gender and Diversity in Organizations division of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. He is presently the Editor-in-Chief of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and an Associate Editor for Personnel Review.

Alexander is Professor of Marketing at James Cook University, and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Culture Management, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. He holds a PhD from Melbourne University in Melbourne, Australia. He is a leading international scholar of marketing and tourism management. Alexander publishes in marketing and tourism in publications such as Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, and in tourism in Annals of Tourism Research and Journal of Travel Research.