XUELI HUANG is a Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. He was the Founding Director of the China-Australia Business Research Centre at Edith Cowan University between 2007- 2010. His research focuses on strategic management, innovation management, and Chinese investment in Australia. He has published over forty referred academic papers and articles in leading international journals, including Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Advertising Research, and R&D Management. He has provided consulting services and training programmes to many Australian and Chinese firms.
IAN AUSTIN is an Australian Researcher on American and East Asian Political Economy and he is currently working at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. He is the author of Common Foundations of American and East Asian Modernisation: from Alexander Hamilton to Junichero Koizumi, Goh Keng Swee and Southeast Asian Governance, Changing Faces of ASEAN and Pragmatism and Public Policy in East Asia: Origins, Adaptations and Developments. Prior to joining academia Austin worked in logistics in Australia and Singapore, for the National Library Board of Singapore in research and project management, and for Australian state and federal politicians in the areas of public policy and elections.
