2025 PRME Australia and New Zealand Chapter Forum

Monash Business School at Monash University is delighted to host The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Australia-New Zealand Chapter annual forum, on Friday 5 December 2025. 

The forum brings together academics, PhD scholars, professional staff and students involved in responsible and sustainable business education, research, engagement, and impact. 

It offers an excellent opportunity for networking, knowledge sharing, and advancing the principles of responsible management education in the Australia-New Zealand region, and will conveniently follow the ANZMAC and ANZAM conferences. 

In this chapter forum, the focus will be on systematising PRME principles in business schools. We will run café style workshop-based activities, in which we learn from others’ experiences to co-create transferable tools for our own contexts. 

We invite you to attend the forum in person at Monash University's Caulfield campus.

Keynote speaker

Kate Dundas, Executive Director, UN Global Compact Network Australia

Ms Dundas is the Executive Director of the UN Global Compact Network Australia (UNGCNA), the Australian Local Network of the United Nations (UN) Global Compact. As Executive Director, she leads a team of experts across the fields of business and human rights, environment and climate change, anti-bribery and corruption and sustainable development.

Ms Dundas is an experienced and well-regarded executive leader with 20 years of experience across the public and private sectors in sustainability, strategic foresight, strategy and city planning. She holds degrees in Industrial Design, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design, is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership and the Harvard Executive Education for Sustainability Leadership program, and is an Executive MBA candidate.

Host

Professor Carla Wilkin, Deputy Dean Accreditation and International, Monash Business School, Monash University

Prof Wilkin is a Professor of Accounting, Deputy Dean Accreditation and International in Monash Business School, and President of Academic Board, Monash University, Australia. She has previously held positions at The University of Melbourne and Deakin University. In 2021, Prof Wilkin received the Notable Contribution to the Accounting Information Systems Literature Award, awarded by the American Accounting Association.

Speakers

Associate Professor Glen Croy, Deputy Head, Department of Management, Monash Business School, Monash University

A/Prof Croy is an award-winning educator and researcher. His expertise is in the activation of training and learning for the adoption of new approaches to address emerging challenges. He has effectively demonstrated this in a range of business, community, and education contexts, with participants achieving and retaining development objectives.

Assistant Professor Darren Baker, Responsible Leadership, Monash Business School, Monash University

A/Prof Baker’s work advances fair and sustainable organisations, focusing on socio-economic inequality and climate change. He studies the emotional and unconscious experiences of workers vulnerable to inequality and major climatic events, using arts-based and creative qualitative methods, psychology, group psychodynamics, and in-depth interviews.

Prior to academia, he consulted at Accenture and Deloitte for FTSE 100/250 firms. He holds an MA (Oxford) and a PhD (King’s College London), and has been published in leading management journals.

Associate Professor Joya Kemper, University of Canterbury, and Co-Chair of the Australia and New Zealand PRME Chapter

A/Prof Kemper is passionate about sustainable, ethical and healthy consumption and production with a focus on behaviour, organisational and institutional change. 

She has published more than 60 journal articles in journals including the Journal of Business Ethics, the Journal of Public Policy and Marketing and the European Journal of Marketing, and is involved in several transdisciplinary projects on the circular economy and sustainability (grants worth more than $30 million).

Associate Professor Rob Hales, Leader of Sustainable Business, Griffith Business School and Co-Chair of the Australia and New Zealand PRME Chapter

A/Prof Hales is the Discipline Leader of Sustainable Business in the Griffith Business School. His research interests focus on climate change governance in business, climate change policy and governance, carbon markets, sustainable tourism and working with First Peoples on consent processes and climate change. 

A/Prof Hales has completed numerous research consultancies for business and government throughout Australia. He is currently working on climate finance research projects aimed at facilitating transformation in climate resilient development.

A/Prof Hales has played a significant role in facilitating change in Australian business schools through his position as co-chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) Australia New Zealand Chapter. He has fostered collaboration between universities, helping to create a network of facilitators to advance climate action education. He has been involved in organising forums and workshops that reinforce commitments to embed climate change education in business curricula. A/Prof Hales has also promoted the integration of the UN Sustainable Development Goals into teaching practices across Australian business schools.

Questions or queries?

Please contact james.parfree@monash.edu or BusEco-Accreditation@monash.edu