Fiona Haines (BA (Hons), PhD) is a Professor in the School of Social and Political Sciences and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at ANU. She has a BA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Melbourne. Her PhD won the 1996 Chancellor's Prize for excellence (Arts and Social Sciences). She teaches in the area of corporate and white collar crime, regulation and compliance as well as the sociology of crime and deviance. Professor Haines research interests and published work (including The Paradox of Regulation Edward Elgar 2011, Globalization and Regulatory Character Ashgate, 2005 and Corporate Regulation: Beyond Punish or Persuade, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997) encompasses a diverse range of corporate harms, disparate regulatory regimes and regulatory contexts: environmental harm, workplace safety, product safety (including product liability insurance), corporate collapse, industrial disasters and anti-competitive conduct. Her current work extends is in three main areas: the impact of non judicial methods to ensure ethical practice of multinational business, exploring the connection between financial and climate regulation, and the development of regulatory regimes to enable decarbonisation of the Australian Electricity industry. Her work is both central to Criminological interests in corporate deviance and also inherently interdisciplinary. Her various research projects involve a number of partners including the Melbourne Energy Institute (she is a member of the executive of MEI), the Centre for Public Policy and, with respect to the control of multinational business, Oxfam Australia and ActionAid Australia. Professor Haines has advised government in the area of regulation and regulatory policies. She has worked with and range of government agencies including: Department of Justice (Victoria) Civil Law Policy, Primary Industries and Resources (South Australia) (PIRSA), National Road and Transport Commission and the Victorian Taxi Directorate. As a result of her research and consultancy work, she is called on to address government and professional conferences and seminars in a wide range of areas, most recently for the Victorian Law Reform Commission and the Victorian Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. She was a member of the Victorian Government Advisory Committee for the Equal Opportunity Act review, chaired by the former Victorian Public Advocate, Julian Gardiner in 2008 and a member of the Victorian Government Firearms Consultative Committee from 2005-2009. Professor Haines co-edited the international journal Law & Policy with Professors Nancy Reichman (University of Denver) and Colin Scott (University College Dublin) from 2006-2012. She sits on several editorial boards including Regulation and Governance and the socio-legal studies series for Palgrave MacMillan.
Dr. Lemieux joined the George Washington University in 2006 and he is jointly appointed at the Department of Sociology and the College of Professional Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Montreal in 2002. Dr. Lemieux’s research has focused on policing, homeland security, and cybersecurity. He is currently conducting studies on cyber defense and intelligence sharing on cyber threats. Dr. Lemieux has also published various journal articles examining crime control during major disasters, counter-terrorism, intelligence agencies, and police cooperation. He has published six books; Militarization of the Police Apparatus (2005), Norms and Practices in Criminal Intelligence (2006), Homeland Security Handbook (2007), International Police Cooperation (2010, Crime During Disasters (2010), Economic Development, Crime, and Policing (2014). He is currently working on a new book on Strategic Cyber Operations to be published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015.
Flavio Menezes is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland where he served two terms as Head of the School of Economics. During his tenure, the School experienced considerable growth and change and became one of the top economics department in Australia Flavio joined the University of Queensland in June 2006 after more than a decade at the Australian National University, where he was, amongst other responsibilities, the Foundation Director of the Australian Centre of Regulatory Economics. Flavio was also a part-time Vice President with the Regulatory Economics and Public Policy Practice at CRA International in Canberra until May 2006 and a Senior Consultant until May 2007. Flavio Menezes has published over 50 journal articles on the economics of auctions, competition and regulatory economics, industrial organisation, and market design. He is regarded as Australia’s leading auction theory expert and author of a well-known textbook on auction theory published by Oxford University Press. Flavio Menezes has presented seminars and delivered lectures in the Americas, Europe and in the Asia Pacific Region. He has lectured to both academic audiences and practitioners. His academic career has taken him to world renowned institutions as a visitor. He is a vice President of the Economic Society of Australia (Queensland Branch), a member of several editorial boards and associate editor of a number of international journals. Professor Menezes has a rich consulting experience. Overseas consulting includes being the main advisor on the determination of a privatisation model for utilities, providing advice on electricity regulatory reform, and reviewing government procurement practices. Consulting experiences in Australia include advising the ACCC, IPART, the Victorian Government and the DCC on the application of auction theory to regulatory environments and providing economic advice to various private and public organisations on mergers, competition policy cases and regulatory issues in defence, energy, banking, health, transport and telecommunications.
Fatima Bhoola lectures Economics at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) where she obtained her MCom (Economics) degree in 2010. Her areas of interest include monetary policy, exchange rate volatility and economic growth. Published work includes studies on the determinants of output growth volatility in South Africa. She has also contributed book chapters pertaining to South Africa’s Financial and Labour markets. She is a passionate educator with a keen interest in learning and teaching.
Current teaching areas: - Macroeconomics, Quantitative methods Research expertise : - Economic growth and macroeconomics - The macroeconomics of natural resource abundance - Macroeconomic analysis of aid for health - Development economics - The economics of civil conflict and post-conflict countries - Panel models and systems of equations
