Introducing the new Chairman of the HRS Board
Following the retirement at the end of 2023 of Mr Tom Poulton as the founding Chair of the HRS Board, I am pleased to introduce Professor Greg Whitwell as the new Chairman of our Board.
Greg has had a long career in senior leadership roles in some of Australia’s most pre-eminent universities. He has a lifelong commitment to the transformative power of education through innovative and engaging teaching methods and through research aimed at better understanding how economies function. He advocates the importance of interdisciplinary study and incorporates multiple perspectives on societal challenges. Professor Whitwell has long been a champion of diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
It was great this week to welcome Greg to Haileybury Rendall School along with Haileybury CEO/Principal, Derek Scott. We toured the entire site and the boarding precinct and looked in detail at future plans for further campus development. Greg also visited many classrooms to see teaching and learning in action and was able to have lunch with 14 HRS students from across the School. He also hosted a lunch for all staff and spoke passionately about his belief that teaching is the greatest profession, and our staff are incredibly valuable to all that we do.
I also organised for Greg to meet with the Chief Minister, Eva Lawler, and the Education Minister, Mark Monaghan to gain valuable insights into the workings of the Territory from their point of view.
Greg is an Old Haileyburian who graduated from Haileybury Keysborough in 1973 and, more than 50 years later, he maintains strong connections to his former school. He credits his years at Haileybury and the teachers who supported him for helping to shape his career as a senior leader in prestigious Australian universities.
Before his retirement in 2022, Professor Whitwell was Dean of the University of Sydney Business School and Chair of CEMS — a global alliance of leading business schools, multinational companies, and NGOs. Prior to that he was Deputy Dean and Director of the Graduate School, Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne and then Senior Deputy Dean at UNSW Business School.
Before his appointment at the University of Sydney, Greg was Senior Deputy Dean at UNSW Business School. One of his achievements there was to lead (successfully) UNSW's initial AACSB accreditation. Prior to his arrival at UNSW, Greg was Deputy Dean and Director (Graduate School of Business and Economics) in the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Melbourne, and Chair of the Academic Senate, U21 Global.
Greg studied at Monash University, gaining a Bachelor of Economics (first class honours; top of class). He then received his PhD from the University of Melbourne.
Greg is the joint winner of two best paper awards at American Marketing Association conferences and has supervised a large and distinguished cohort of doctoral students in Marketing.
We welcome Greg to our HRS community and wish him well as we grow together.
Andrew McGregor
Principal
