Professor Denise Bradley is the Vice Chancellor and President of the University of South Australia, a position she has held since 1997. She has been extensively involved in national educational policy groups for more than two decades. Most recently she was a member of Minister Brendan Nelson's Higher Education Review Reference Group. She was a foundation Director of the Australian Universities quality Agency (2000-2003) and a Member of the National Committee for Quality Assurance in Higher Education. Professor Bradley has been a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators since 1982 and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. In 1995 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in recognition of her contribution to education and education policy. In 2003 she was awarded a Centenary Medal for services to Australian society through tertiary education and was named one of Australia's top 25 leaders by the Australian Financial Review's BOSS magazine. In 2005 she was named an Asia Pacific Woman of Distinction in Education by the Asia Pacific Women's Business Council Inc. Professor Bradley was named the 2005 South Australian of the Year for her significant contributions to the State.
Richard B. Kettner Polley
Dr. Richard B. Kettner-Polley (Ph.D., Harvard, 1979) is Chancellor of Colorado Technical University's Institute for Advanced Studies. Before coming to CTU he was in charge of academic affairs at University College , University of Denver. As Academic Chair at Jones International University, he oversaw the design of the first all-online regionally accredited MBA programs.
He has held Professorships at: Northeastern University, University of Arizona, and Lewis & Clark College, and has held Senior Research Professorships in Norway, Sweden, and Germany under Fulbright and NSF grants. Since 1985, Dr. Kettner-Polley has served as Editor of Small Group Research, an international journal of research and application. He served as chair of the Local Arrangements Committee for the Academy of Management's annual meetings, held in Denver in 2002, and recently served on an NSF expert panel on small groups and teams.
Dr. Kettner-Polley has published more than 40 scholarly articles and books. He was the first recipient of the William Jerome Arnold Award (Academy of Management). His areas of expertise include: Teams, Leadership, Organizational Development, Statistics, International Management, and Group Support Systems.
Dr Krishna Moorthy
Currently the director of the International Institute of Information Technology (I2IT) InfoTech Park, Professor Moorthy holds an MS in electronics and MBA degrees in addition to a postgraduate diploma in computing. A Ph.D scholar at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, his research area includes digital age models for product development.
Prof. Moorthy has also published books on digital age business models and has several years of significant experience in the field of electronics and instrumentation with varying assignments in the USA, Europe and India. He has presented papers in various international conferences in the areas of higher education and technology assimilation. He is also a visiting faculty member at European universities like the ESSCA and ESDES.
Dr Volkmar Bruckner
Volkmar Brückner studied Physics at the Lomonossow University in Moscow, USSR. He gained his Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Semiconductor Optics at Lomonossow University, too; and his Ph.D. (Dr. sc. nat.) in Ultrafast Semiconductor Optoelectronics at Jena University in Germany. From 1977 he was employed and later then a professor at Jena University. He was a guest professor at Amsterdam University (Netherlands) and then at the BUAP Puebla (Mexico). Since 1995 he has been a professor for Optical Communication Technology at the University of Telecommunication Leipzig (University of Applied Sciences). Since 1998 till 2007 he has been the Rector (president) of this University; presently he is in the position of a Vice-President for International Affairs. He is the author of 2 scientific books and of more than 100 publications in Journals and Proceedings. His main fields of interests are lasers, optical communication technology, fibre optics, ultra short laser pulses, ultrafast semiconductor optoelectronics and optics of semiconductors.
