Professor Mohammad Mohabbat Khan
Professor Mohammad Mohabbat Khan was a senior professor in the Department of Public Administration at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He was appointed to the post of professor in 1983. He retired from teaching in 2014. He earned an honors degree in political science, a master’s in public administration from the University of Dhaka, a master’s in public administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. He served on the Bangladesh Public Service Commission and taught at universities in Jordan, Nigeria, Singapore and the U.S. He has written 16 books in the areas of governance and public sector reform. He also holds MPA from University of Southern California. He was a Member of Bangladesh Public Service Commission for five years. He was also a Member of University Grants Commission of Bangladesh for four years. His areas of interest include public sector management and reform, corruption and women in the public sector.
Professor Mohammad Habibur Rahman
Dr. Mohammad Habibur Rahman is Professor at the Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He obtained his PhD from University of Wales in the UK and was Senior Fulbright Scholar at Syracuse University in the USA and Visiting Fellow at York University in Canada. Dr. Rahman has been teaching since 1987 in the fields of public administration, political science, and development studies in a number of universities including University of Dhaka (Bangladesh), Lakehead University (Canada), University of South Pacific (Fiji) and University of Brunei Darussalam (Brunei). He was awarded a number of research grants by various international universities and the Ford Foundation and contributed numerous papers in refereed journals and book chapters. His current research interests include public sector governance reform, smart government/e-government, knowledge management and public sector performance.
Professor Gurmeet Singh
Professor Gurmeet Singh is the Head of the Graduate School of Business and Director of MBA programme. He teaches Marketing on the MBA programme. He has over 21 years of experience in teaching, research, consultancy and executive training for industries. He held teaching and research assignments at various universities in India and Africa. He has a wide range of teaching and research experience and has not only taught but developed various courses in the area of marketing and management both at graduate and undergraduate levels. He has contributed more than 100 articles in leading International journals and International conferences including more than 50 articles in ABDC and other ranked international journals. Dr. Singh was editor of Journal of Pacific Studies (2010-2017) an ABDC ranked Journal. Presently he is an associate editor for ABDC ranked Journal of Global Marketing (Taylor Francis) and section edition editor for Australasian Journal of Information Systems a journal ranked A by ABDC. He is also a member of Editorial Review Board for Journal of Business Research, a top tier (A ranked) Journal published by Elsevier. He is the recipient of 2008 ‘Japan’s outstanding research on development Award’ and 2016 ‘Amity Global Academic Excellence Award’. He has done a number of consulting projects for Training and Productivity Authority of Fiji (TPAF), Fiji Public Service Commission and PICPA. He has won research grants from major funding agencies including PARDI, GDN, ODN and USP SRT and FRC funding. His current research interests include Social Entrepreneurship, Project Management, business ethics, Food security and Food consumption behavior, e-Governance for improving service quality, open innovation and service operations management.
Associate Professor Abu-Elias Sarker
Dr Abu Elias Sarker received his Ph.D. in Public Administration in 1991 from the University of Liverpool with a particular focus on State Intervention in Rural Development. He was a faculty member of public management at the University of Dhaka and University of the South Pacific. He has been working as a faculty member of public management at the University of Sharjah since September 2000. Currently, he is an Associate Professor. Sarker has published extensively in international refereed journals in the areas of state and agrarian change, rural development, decentralization and local government, managerial reforms, public accountability, social accountability, political settlements and reforms, governance, institutional reforms and development. Currently, he is working on public sector entrepreneurship and innovation and governance and sustainable development. He focuses his research mainly on South Asia and the United Arab Emirates.
Dr Buriata Eti-Tofinga
Dr Buriata Eti-Tofinga is Lecturer at School of Business, Monash University currently based in Malaysia. Previously taught at the School of Management and Public Administration, The University of the South Pacific. Her areas of research include: management, strategy and entrepreneurship. She is particularly interested in studying the strategy of social enterprises and hybrid organizations. She also conducted higher education research projects focusing on the cross-cultural competence of students and the student learning motivation during the pandemic. She has published in peer reviewed journals including the European Business Review, Social Enterprise Journal, Sustainability Accounting, Management and Policy Journal, and Journal of Organizational Change Management. She has presented and published work in the proceedings of national, regional and international conferences including the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management, Academy of International Business Southeast Asia and 6th EMES International Research Conference on Social Enterprise.
Mata’afa Dr Desmond Uelese Amosa Mata’afa
Dr. Desmond Uelese Amosa is currently working as a private consultant since 2017. His latest work (with other colleagues) in sports and SDGs is the report on ‘Maixmising the Contribution of Sports to Economic and Social in the Pacific: The Case studies of Fiji and Samoa (2018)’ which was funded by ONOC, USP, Samoa Ministry of Education Sports and Culture and Fiji Ministry of Youth and Sports. In addition, he was the team leader for the team that put together the Samoa Education Sector Plan 2019-2024 which has a large sports component for schools in the country. Mata’afa worked as an adviser for the Pacific Islands Centre of Public Administration (PICPA) at the University of the South Pacific before becoming a private consultant. Prior to joining PICPA, he was the Dean of the Faculty of Business and Entrepreneurship at the National University of Samoa (NUS) and a senior lecturer with the School of Management and Public Administration at the University of the South Pacific. He was also working as a senior officer at the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service Commission in Samoa. His main area of interest in teaching and researching is in public policy and management, administrative ethics, governance and public sector reform, sport and SDGs. Desmond has published several journal articles on the public sector reforms in Fiji, Samoa and Tonga. His latest publications: Policy Analysis and Engagement Toolkit: A guide for Pacific Non-government organizations in the Fisheries sector, (2018) WWF, European Union, FFA and PIFS, Suva Fiji.
Dr Nacanieli Rika
Dr Nacanieli Rika is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting and Finance and also the Associate Dean – Learning and Teaching, for the faculty of Business and Economics at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He is also the Titular Fellow for the Association of Commonwealth Universities, 2017. His research interests include: Accounting and Accountability in various contexts (including Households and Sport), Public Sector Accounting and Auditing and Social and Environmental Accounting. He has also engaged in Consultancies and Community Engagement.
Dr Ronald Kumar
Dr Ronald Kumar is an Associate Professor in the School of Accounting and Finance for the faculty of Business and Economics at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. He has a PhD from Bolton and has reviewed papers for academic journals: Anatolia (ISSN: 1303-2917), Economies (ISSN 2227-7099), Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management (ISSN: 2053-4620), Social Indicators Research (ISSN: 0303-8300), International Energy Journal (ISSN: 1513-718X ), Economic Analysis and Policy (ISSN: 0313-5926), European Journal of Tourism Research (ISSN: 1994 –7658), Energy Policy (ISSN: 0301-4215), African Development Review (ISSN: 1467-8268 ), Tourism Management (ISSN: 0261- 5177), Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050), South Asian Journal of Global Business Research (ISSN: 2045- 4457), The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development (ISSN: 0963-8199) and is the Editorial Board Member for International Journal of Comparative Management (ISSN: 2514-4111) (Inderscience Publishers).
Dr Stephanie Perkiss
Dr Stephanie Perkiss is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Wollongong, Australia and a Certified Practicing Accountant. Her research interests are corporate responsibility and disclosure, sociological theory, social and environmental accounting and accountability, with focus on the Sustainable Development Goals and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in accounting/business higher education.
