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Dr. Andrea Haefner
Senior Lecturer at Griffith Asia InstituteDr Andrea Haefner is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith Asia Institute, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and has over 15 years of experience working with academia, government, and international organisations across Australia, Germany, and Southeast Asia, especially the Mekong region. Andrea has lived and worked for several years in Southeast Asia and is currently leading as Deputy Director WIL (Work Integrated Learning) Griffith Business School the award-winning Griffith Asia Business Internship Program, a global Work Integrated Learning program allowing Australian students to experience Asia through an overseas internship building upon well-established industry partner links. Andrea’s research focuses on governing civil society in Southeast Asia and a strong interest in transboundary river basins in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Europe, especially the Mekong River Basin. Besides publishing several peer-reviewed articles, Andrea’s book on Negotiating for Water Resources - Bridging Transboundary River Basins was published with Routledge in 2016. Andrea also worked on several projects on the ground in water resources management and climate change, focusing on the Mekong region.
Associate Professor Robert Hales
Discipline Lead for Sustainability and Management at Griffith Business SchoolAssociate Professor Robert Hales is the discipline lead for sustainability and management in the Griffith Business School. He was the Director of the Griffith Centre for Sustainable Enterprise in the Griffith Business School from 2016 to 2022. The Centre oversaw the sustainability strategy and initiatives of the Griffith Business School. He was also the co-chair of the Griffith’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Working Group which oversaw the SDG Strategy and Times Higher Education Impact ranking processes of the university. He is currently the co-chair of the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education Australia-New Zealand Chapter. His research interests focus on the governance issues around the grand challenges of our time. His research focusses on SDGs in business and government, a business case for climate change, climate change policy, carbon management, sustainable tourism and working with First Peoples on consent processes and climate change. He has completed many research consultancies for business and government throughout Australia in the above research areas. He has led or collaborated on projects worth over $1.4 million in research income.
Shawn Hunter
Director of Inclusive Growth Programs at Griffith Asia InstituteShawn Hunter is an Industry Fellow (APEC) and Director of Inclusive Growth Programs at the Griffith Asia Institute. He is an accomplished international development practitioner and researcher with over 15 years’ experience designing and implementing economic development programs across the Asia-Pacific region. His primary expertise is on financial inclusion and the digital economy. Much of his career has centred on researching inclusive economic development issues and facilitating capacity-building initiatives to support policymakers and regulators achieve positive development outcomes. This includes over a decade of experience collaborating with government agencies and industry experts to progress initiatives within the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) that promote regional cooperation and economic integration.
Adjunct Professor Iyanatul Islam
Griffith Asia InstituteIyanatul (Yan) Islam is Adjunct Professor, Griffith Asia Institute, Brisbane, Australia. Formerly he was Chief, Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch, Employment Policy Department, ILO Geneva. Yan held the position of Professor of International Business, School of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia from 2003 to 2010, having first joined Griffith in 1989. He is an international development economist educated at Manchester (Bachelor of Arts in Economics, First Class Honours and Richard Cobden Prize Winner), Western Ontario (Master of Arts in Economics), and Cambridge (PhD, Economic Development). Since the mid-1980s, he has worked as an external expert for the ILO and, on some occasions, for the UNDP and the ADB. He is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications consisting of refereed journal articles, books and edited volumes, book chapters, working papers, policy reports (principally for the ILO) and commentaries in leading online journals. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of Asia-Pacific Economy (Routledge). He is also on the editorial board of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics (Springer) as well as the South Asian Journal of Human Resource Management (Sage).
Professor Christoph Nedopil
Director of Griffith Asia InstituteProfessor Christoph Nedopil Wang is the Director of the Griffith Asia Institute and a Professor of Economics. He is also a Visiting Professor at FISF Fudan University in Shanghai, and a Visiting Faculty at Singapore Management University (SMU). Christoph engages in research related to green and sustainable finance, as well as development economics. He has published articles in Science, Ambio, Business Strategy and Environment, Journal of International Development, and other leading journals. Prior to his appointment at Griffith, he was an Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the Green Finance & Development Center at Fanhai International School of Finance at Fudan University in Shanghai, PR China. He was also the Founding Director of the Green BRI Center at the International Institute of Green Finance (IIGF) and a faculty at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, PR China. Over the past 15 years, Christoph worked as a consultant in research and capacity building with the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, and UNDP in over 20 countries and provides advisory to governments, financial institutions, enterprises, and civil society to advance the application of sustainable finance and development practices. Christoph also serves on several boards with a focus on scaling sustainability in businesses and finance.
Associate Professor Tess Newton Cain
Project Lead at Griffith Pacific HubAssociate Professor Tess Newton Cain is the Project Lead at the Griffith Pacific Hub. Within that role she assists with curation for the Pacific Outlook section of the Griffith Asia Insights blog. Tess is a dual citizen of Vanuatu and the United Kingdom. She is a former Lecturer in Law at the University of the South Pacific. She has lived and worked in the Pacific islands region for almost 25 years, with most of that time spent living in Vanuatu. Tess's research interests focus on politics, policy and development in the Pacific islands region. Tess provides comment and analysis for media outlets in the Pacific islands region, Australia, New Zealand, and across the world.