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2025 Enterprise Governance Symposium

Navigating Governance in an Era of Global Uncertainty  

The Bond University Faculty of Law and the Centre for Commercial Law and Governance are proud to host the 2025 Enterprise Governance Symposium.  

In today's rapidly evolving global landscape, organisations face unprecedented challenges. This symposium will explore the complexities of enterprise governance in an environment marked by uncertainty and instability. Thought leaders, governance practitioners and academics will come together to engage in discussions on the latest governance strategies, risk management practices, and leadership approaches that are essential for navigating through turbulent times.  

The Enterprise Governance Symposium will feature expert presenters, panels and interactive sessions that delve into the dynamics of governance, addressing issues such as regulatory changes, geopolitical shifts and economic volatility. 

We seek to answer the critical question: What governance strategies can professionals employ to navigate uncertainty while making effective decisions and establishing future directions?  

Event details

Date: Thursday, 26 June, 2025.

Time: 9am to 5.30pm (Symposium), 5.30pm to 7pm (networking drinks).

Location: Bond Brisbane, 433 Boundary Street, Spring Hill.

Key themes

  • Navigating Governance in a Changing Geopolitical Landscape: The Tariff Challenge 
  • Plurality and Diversity as Governance Imperatives 
  • Mission-Oriented Governance in Non-Governmental Organisations 
  • Digital Governance and Cyber Security  
  • Adaptive Leadership: Decision Making in Volatile Times 

 

Event program

Meet your speakers

  • Professor Keitha Dunstan

    Professor Dunstan holds the role of Provost of Bond University. She leads the research and education strategies and oversees the academic operations of the university. Her role encompasses leadership of the Bond University College, Transformation CoLab, Higher Degree Research Unit, Academic Integrity Unit, Research Integrity Unit, Academic Integrity Project, and Executive Learning Unit. Professor Dunstan also oversees the Inclusion portfolio of the University, which encompasses its Gender Equality, Equity and Diversity and Indigenous strategies. 

    Professor Dunstan is the Chair of, the Board of Advice for the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Foundation, the Queensland Independent Remuneration Tribunal, and the Indigenous Advisory Group for CPA Australia.  She is a Fellow of CPA Australia, a member of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. 

    Professor Keitha Dunstan is a proud descendant of the Mandandanji people of South-West Queensland. 

  • Professor Robin Gauld, Ph.D., DCom.

    Robin Gauld joined Bond University in January 2025 as Executive Dean, Bond Business School. He was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Commerce) and Dean, Otago Business School, from 2016-23, and Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology, at the University of Otago. Prior to his business school appointment, Robin was Head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Otago Medical School, where he was based for 20 years after an academic appointment in public policy at City University of Hong Kong. He has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong (1996) and Doctor of Commerce from Victoria University of Wellington (2018). He has served on/chaired several AACSB and EQUIS Peer Review Teams. 

    Robin was 2014 NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor, University of London; a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008-09 at Boston and Harvard universities; Senior Fellow at the Boston University Health Policy Institute from 2009-13; and from 2013-2017, was founding Independent Chair of Alliance South which brought together clinical leaders and managers to focus on ‘whole of system’ approaches to care design in New Zealand’s Southern region. He is on the Advisory Board of the New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation, and the NZ Telehealth Forum, and serves on the Hong Kong Strategic Topics Grants Committee, chairing the Public Health sub-group. From 2020-22, he was President of the 150-member Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools, and in 2022 was elected as a Director of Business South (Otago Chamber of Commerce). He serves on the Advisory Board of Universiti Putra Malaysia School of Business and Economics; is on Faculty with the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, National Healthcare Group, Singapore; and the Internal Review Panel with the WHO Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. 

    Robin has published 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, 45+ book chapters and several books including The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009) which was awarded First Prize in category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards, and Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-Government, Computer Failure and Information System Development (2006; coauthored) which has been widely-used globally including in key reading lists at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He sits on leading journal boards including Health Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Health Expectations, Journal of Health Organization and Management, and International Journal of Information Management

  • Dr Umair Ghori

    Dr Umair Ghori (LLB (Hons) (London), LLM (UNSW), PhD (UNSW) is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Bond University with a background in corporate law practice. Dr Ghori teaches Contract Law, International Investment law and International Trade and Business Law. He researches in the field of international trade and investment law with a focus on exploring regulatory issues from a policy perspective.  Dr Ghori’s work has been published in well-regarded journals in Australia, Asia, and the UK. He has authored two major monographs in the field of international trade "Global Textiles and Clothing Trade: Trade Policy Perspectives" (2012) and most recently “Export Restrictions and Export Controls: From WTO to the Realm of Global Security" (2023).

  • Prof William Van Caenegem

    William Van Caenegem studied Law in Belgium and the UK. He is fluent in English, Dutch, French and German and speaks some Russian.

    He is interested in comparative and trans-national law, intellectual property law, evidence and criminal procedure. He has been a stipendiary researcher at the Max-Planck Institute for Comparative Intellectual Property Law in Munich, FRG. He held the inaugural CAL/ANU Copyright Fellowship, and was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial and Property Law at QUT, as well as at the Comparative & International Law Center, Faculty of Law, University of California, Berkeley. He has been a visiting Professor at the Sorbonne University, Paris, the University of Ghent, Belgium and is currently a visiting Professor at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. He has been a consultant for the WA Law Reform Commission in the area of comparative criminal procedure, and has undertaken work in this area for AUSAID in Cambodia. He has also been a consultant to DFAT in relation to the protection of geographical indications of origin.

    He has published in the areas of foreign law, intellectual property law, legal philosophy and criminal procedure. He is a past Vice-President of the Australian Society for Legal Philosophy. He is a Barrister-at-Law of the Supreme Court of Queensland.

  • Graeme Edwards

    Graeme Edwards currently works at Bond University on the Queensland Gold Coast. Graeme does research in cybercrime investigations including the location and analysis of digital evidence.

  • Associate Professor Louise Parsons

    Louise is an Associate Professor at Bond University and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law. In the May 2025 semester, she is also the Acting Executive Dean. Louise joined Bond University in May 2006 after moving from South Africa to Australia. In South Africa she had served as Senior Legal Counsel at the South African Reserve Bank, heading the Corporate, Commercial and Employment Law section. Her career also included time as a commercial specialist at SASOL, and as a part-time lecturer at the University of Pretoria. At Bond University, Louise has served as Associate Dean, Student Services and Service Quality, as Director of Mooting, and as Director of the National High School Mooting Competition. She has won a number of teaching awards, including a 2015 Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, from the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. Louise’s PhD thesis was entitled: ‘The Uneasy Mandate of the Reserve Bank of Australia for Financial Stability: Challenges for Governance and Accountability’.

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