Advisory Board

Mr Muan Lim (Chair)

Muan Lim graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours  (1^st Class) from The University of Melbourne in 1977 and a Graduate Diploma in Arts in 2020. Working with KPMG and PWC in audit, Muan was accepted as an Associate of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants.

A 22 year veteran of HP, Muan has served many roles in Finance & Admin., Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Leasing. Muan was instrumental in setting up the first joint venture leasing company in China, HP China Leasing Ltd and the first wholly owned manufacturing arm for China’s domestic PC and Server business, HP Shanghai Ltd. Amongst his many appointments were Finance Director Asia Pacific, VP Supply Chain Asia Pacific Personal Systems Group, Global VP Finance and Remarketing.

Currently Muan is an Advisory Board member of the Department of Management & Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics (FBE), and a lifetime member of the Chancellor’s Circle. Both of Muan's children are graduates from FBE and the Arts Faculty.

Prof Ross Garnaut AC

Professorial Research Fellow

Ross Garnaut is an economist whose career has been built around the analysis of and practice of policy connected to development, economic policy and international relations in Australia, Asia and the Pacific. He has held senior roles in universities, business, government and other Australian and international institutions.

He is Professorial Research Fellow in Economics at the University of Melbourne. In 2009 Ross was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa, from the Australian National University and in 2013 he received a Doctor of Science in Economics, honoris causa, from the University of Sydney. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society of Australia. In addition, Ross is a Distinguished Life Member of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and also an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Jennifer Grafton

Associate Dean, Global Engagement

Jennifer Grafton is a Professor in the Department of Accounting in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne. Prior to completing her Ph.D at the University of Melbourne and joining the Faculty she worked as a business consultant at Arthur Andersen. Jennifer’s current research focuses on issues of organisational performance management and control.  She has a particular interest in these issues in not-for-profit contexts. Jennifer’s teaching experience spans a range of subjects in management accounting and control and business forensics across undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education programs. Jennifer is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Applied Accounting Research, and is a director on the Children’s Protection Society Board of Management.

Prof Helen Hu

Director, Centre for Asian Business and Economics  

Helen Hu is a Professor in Strategy and International Business in the Department of Management and Marketing, the University of Melbourne. She is the Director of the Centre for Asian Business and Economics (CABE) in the University of Melbourne. Her research interests are corporate governance with focuses on boards of directors, ownership structure, IPO, and internationalization of Asian firms. Helen’s work has been nominated and awarded at leading international conferences and published in Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, among others. She has also been awarded Deans' Prize for Exceptional Distinction in Research and several Deans’ Certificates for Research Excellence and for Teaching Excellence at the University of Melbourne. In addition, Helen was appointed as an Honorary Research Fellow at Monash University, where she obtained her PhD in international business. She is also a member of Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) and a regular commentator on Sky News, SBS and China Radio International on issues relating to business in China and Asia.

Prof Paul Kofman

Professor Paul Kofman holds a PhD in Economics (1991) from Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He came to Australia in 1994 as a Lecturer in Econometrics at Monash University. After subsequent positions at UNSW and UTS, he was appointed as Professor of Finance at The University of Melbourne in 2001 and was Head of Department from 2006 until 2010. Following two years as Deputy Dean (Faculty), he became Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics in May 2012. Professor Kofman currently holds the Sidney Myer Chair of Commerce.

His main research interest is in quantitative finance and the ethics of finance, but he has also published papers in international trade, econometrics, and actuarial journals, including the Financial Analysts Journal, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Journal of International Economics, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics. He has received numerous research grants including ARC discovery and linkage grants. He is an associate editor of the Journal of International Money & Finance, the International Journal of Managerial Finance, the Review of Futures Markets and JASSA.