Keynote Speakers

Heather Berry

McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Heather Berry is Dean’s Professor of Strategy and International Business at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She has previously been a faculty member at the George Washington University School of Business and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from McGill University, an M.Sc. in International and European Politics from Edinburgh University in Scotland and a Ph.D. with a joint degree in Strategy & Organization and International Business from the Anderson School at UCLA. Her dissertation won the Richard Farmer Best Dissertation Award at the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the Barry Richman Best Dissertation Award in the International Management Division of the Academy of Management (AoM). Heather is a Special Sworn Employee at the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and has been awarded several grants for her research (including an ASA/NSF/BEA Fellowship for her research using the BEA data). Prior to graduate school, she worked in several government positions on Capitol Hill, including Ways and Means Committee Associate in the U.S. House of Representatives. 

Heather’s research and teaching reflect her interest in strategic management and international business, especially the management of global activities and operations by multinational corporations. She explores research questions that examine the scope, performance, integration, innovation and impact of MNCs. Through her research, she seeks to understand how the strategic and organizational choices multinational corporations make across product and geographic markets impact their success in each of these markets. Her research has been published in several of the top journals in strategic management and international business, including the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, Strategy Science and the Strategic Management Journal. She has received several best reviewer and best paper awards and she was selected (by students and faculty) to receive the George Washington University Trachtenberg Prize for Teaching Excellence in 2019. She also posts datasets from her published papers for other researchers to use (including nine dimensions of cross-national distance and the global product integration index).

Heather is a Senior Editor at Organization Science and served two terms as Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal (from 2017-2022) and Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies (from 2017-2022). In May, 2018, she was elected to serve as an Officer of the Strategic Management (STR) Division in the Academy of Management for a five year term (from 2018-2023) and was previously elected to serve on the INFORMS College on Organization Science Executive Committee. She is an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business and she has organized many consortia, panels, conference tracks and full programs at the Academy of International Business, Strategic Management Society and Academy of Management annual conferences.

Tim Devinney

University of Manchester

Tim Devinney is Professor and Chair of International Business at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester (UK). He held positions at Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), The University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University and UCLA and has been a visiting faculty member at numerous universities (e.g., Copenhagen Business School, Humboldt University-Berlin, Wirschaftsuniversität Wien, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology & City University, Hong Kong). He has published more than a dozen books (e.g., Managing the Global Corporation (with J. de la Torré and Y. Doz, 2000) and The Myth of the Ethical Consumer (with P. Auger and G. Eckhardt)) and more than 100 articles in leading journals including Management Science, The Academy of Management Review, J. of International Business Studies, Organization Science, California Management Review, J. of Marketing, J. of Management, J. of Business Ethics and the Strategic Management Journal.

In 2008 he was the first recipient in management of an Alexander von Humboldt Forschungspreis (granting him a professorship at Humboldt University Berlin) and was a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Fellow. In 2008 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB), in 2015 he was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, in 2020 a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) and in 2021 a Fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM). He also appointed as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2013. In 2018 he was awarded the AOM’s Impact Practice Award for the influence of his scholarship on management practice and policy and in 2019 the Service to the Global Community Award for his work and influence on the global academic community.

Tim is heavily involved in the international networks of scholars. He served as Chair of the International Management Division of the Academy of Management, head of the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society and President of the European International Business Academy. He was co-Editor of Academy of Management Perspectives and co-editor of the Advances in International Management series (Emerald) and Founding Editor of Annals in Social Responsibility (Emerald) and Foundations and Trends in International Business and Management (Now). He also served as an Associate Editor of Management Science. He is Director/Editor of the International Business & Management Network and The Sustainability Research and Policy Network of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). He was a member of the Executive of ANZAM (Australia New Zealand Academy of Management) and was named a Fellow in 2008. He is on the editorial board of more than a dozen of the leading international journals.

Gerard Hodgkinson

Alliance Manchester Business School

Gerard P. Hodgkinson is Professor of Strategic Management and Behavioural Science at Alliance Manchester Business School. From 2017-2022 he was the Vice-Dean for Research of the Faculty of Humanities, and served as Deputy Head of the Business School. 

An elected Fellow of the British Academy of Management, British Psychological Society, Chartered Management Institute, Royal Society of Arts, and the Academy of Social Sciences, and an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, for eight years he was the Editor-in-Chief of the British Journal of Management (1999 - 2006) and for 11 years, with J. Kevin Ford (Department of Psychology, Michigan State University), he co-edited the International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (latterly incorporated into the Journal of Organizational Behavior as its Annual Review Issue).  More recently, (2016-2020) he served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Management and he currently serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Review, Futures and Foresight Science, Journal of Management, and Strategic Management Journal.

From 2002-2006 Professor Hodgkinson was a member of the Grants Board of the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and has served two terms as a member of the Executive Committee of the Managerial and Organizational Cognition (MOC) Division of the (US) Academy of Management. From 2002-2005 he served as the MOC Division's International Representative at Large. In a five-year rotational term of office, he served as the MOC Division's Professional Development Workshop's Chair (2007-2008), Program Chair (2008-2009), Division Chair Elect (2009-2010), Division Chair (2010-2011) and Past Division Chair (2011-2012).

The (co-)author of more than 150 scholarly publications, an earlier version of his 2011 article with his Manchester-based colleague Professor Mark Healey, on the psychological foundations of strategic adaptation (dynamic capabilities), which was published in Strategic Management Journal, won the Business Policy and Strategy Division's Sumantra Ghoshal Research and Practice Award at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management (Chicago, IL). In recognition of his sustained contributions to behavioural science and strategic management, in 2021 Professor Hodgkinson was awarded the Research Medal by the British Academy of Management.  Registered with the UK Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist, over the past 35 years he has carried out numerous consultancy assignments with public and private sector organizations.

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Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which Macquarie University stands - the Wallumattagal Clan of the Dharug Nation - whose cultures and customs have nurtured, and continue to nurture, this land since time immemorial. We pay our respects to the Elders, past and present.