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ANZIBA Conference 2010 - Global Business and Sustainable Development
Keynote Speaker - Professor Rosalie Tung
Topic of keynote address: The Rise of Asia: A Human Resource Perspective
The keynote speaker for ANZIBA 2010 is Rosalie L. Tung, Professor of International Business at Simon Fraser University (Canada). She holds the Ming and Stella Wong Chaired Professorship. Through an election of her peers of over 18,000 professors of management and practitioners worldwide, Prof. Tung has served a five-year term on the Executive Committee of the Academy of Management (http://aomonline.org), including the positions of President in 2003-2004 and past President in 2004-2005. She has been inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and a Fellow of the International Academy for Intercultural Research. She is the winner of the 1998 Vancouver YWCA Woman of the Year Award in Management, the Professions and the Trades, and is the recipient of the 1997 American Society for Advanced Global Competitiveness Research Award.
Prof. Tung received her Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of British Columbia in 1977. She was formerly a Wisconsin Distinguished Professor, Business Administration, with the University of Wisconsin System. She also held the position of Director, International Business Center at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has served on the faculties of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), University of Oregon, and as a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of California-Los Angeles, the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (England), the Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, and China Europe International Business School (Shanghai, China). She has taught at the Foreign Investment Commission (now known as the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations). She has served on the United Nations' Task Force on Human Resource Management.
Professor Tung is the author or editor of eleven books, including the IEBM Handbook of International Business (London, U.K.: Thomson Learning, 1999); and Learning from World Class Companies (London, U.K.: Thomson Learning, 2001). She has also published widely on the subjects of international management and organizational theory in journals such as the Journal of World Business, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Executive, California Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Applied Psychology, Human Resource Management, Wharton Annual, Pacific Basin Economic Review (a publication of The Wharton Econometric Forecasting Associates), Multilingua (a publication of the European Economic Community), and Euro-Asia Business Review (INSEAD, France). Her research has been cited in leading national and international newspapers and news magazines, including the International Herald Tribune, Business Week, Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, and East Asian Executive Reports.
Professor Tung has served as a Treasurer and member of the Executive Board, Academy of International Business. She is the Editor of International Human Resource Management, Cross-Cultural and Comparative Management for the Journal of International Business Studies, the 8th highest-ranked journal in business and management categories for 2007. She has also served as the Senior Editor of International Human Resource Management for the Journal of World Business for many years. In addition, she sits on the editorial boards of many other academic journals. Dr. Tung has lectured widely at leading universities throughout the world and is active in the internationalization efforts of business schools worldwide. She has been appointed as a member of the Commercial Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association, and is actively involved in management development and consulting activities around the world. Prof. Tung has been included in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World, The International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Who's Who in Finance and Industry, Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, The World's Who's Who of Women, Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who in Canada, Who's Who in Canadian Business, Who's Who of Canadian Women, and elsewhere for outstanding contributions in her field.