Greg Barton is co-director of the Australian Intervention Support Hub (AISH) and professor of Global Islamic Politics at the Alfred Deakin Institute. Greg has been active for the past twenty year in inter-faith dialogue initiatives and has a deep commitment to building understanding of Islam and Muslim society. The central axis of his research interests is the way in which religious thought, individual believers and religious communities respond to modernity and to the modern nation state. He also has a strong general interest in comparative international politics. He has undertaken extensive research on Indonesia politics and society, especially of the role of Islam. Since 2004 he has made a comparative study of progressive Islamic thought in Turkey and Indonesia. He also has a general interest in security studies and human security and a particular interest in countering violent extremism continues to research Islamic and Islamist movements in Southeast Asia and around the world.
Dr Navarria's research interests include the relationship between authoritarian regimes in Asia and the language and tactics of democracy; the role new communication media have in politics; the meaning of representation and the role of civil society in contemporary democracies. He is also interested and work on issues related to current Italian politics.. He is currently working on a research project focusing on the effects communication media have on prevailing power-dynamics between state and citizens in China. He is also co-editor of the Democracy Futures series, a joint global initiative between the Sydney Democracy Network and The Conversation. The material published in this series aims to stimulate fresh thinking about the many challenges facing democracies in the 21st century. Dr Navaria and John Watson (Politics and Society Editor at The Conversation) coordinate the project. He is the convener of SDN fortnightly research seminars series. He has a PhD in Politics and Media from the University of Westminster and a Degree in Philosophy from the University of Catania.. I hold a PhD in Politics from the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, and a MA Degree in Philosophy from the University of Catania, Italy.
I only own 2 suitcases, a fully stamped passport, a small part of a start-up business and a college degree. I am passionate about building companies, marketing and learning foreign languages. I also code a little. Previously I worked for Barclays Accelerator and Techstars in London, UK. Went to Lund University in Sweden and Rollins in Florida, USA.
Professor Cook’s teaching interests are in the areas of marketing, management, sales management, marketing communications, services marketing, industry/vertical marketing, industrial/ organizational psychology and TeleBusiness He has taught at Boston University, Nazareth College, St. John Fisher College, Roberts Wesleyan College, SUNY Geneseo, Keuka College and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he has served as the evening chairperson for the Marketing Program. He was a distinguished professor at RIT. He instructs both at the undergraduate and graduate level Cook was employed by the Ford Division of the Ford Motor Company for 10 years in various marketing and management assignments both in the operations side of the business and in the Headquarters Marketing Staff He recently retired from the Xerox Corporation after 30 years of service in numerous sales, marketing and customer service assignments including: district manager, division manager, industry marketing, general manager, customer services marketing, division manager of national account service and marketing manager, TeleBusiness He has served as a president of the Rochester, NY, chapter of the American Marketing Association and serves on the new business books review board of the Journal of Consumer Marketing. Cook has recently completed a marketing case study on “JOLT, America’s Original Energy Drink!” that should be published soon He has served as a member of the Business Advisory Council for the John Wiley School of Business at SUNY Geneseo. He was a member of the RIT President’s Speakers Bureau and speaks on the subjects of quality, customer satisfaction, customer services marketing, affinity marketing and telebusiness He recently coauthored an article in the Chief Marketing Officer Journal, Volume 2, with Paulo Albuquerque, assistant professor of marketing at the Simon School, entitled “The (un) Importance of Marketing and the CMO in the American Auto Industry.” Cook was formerly a board member of the Landmark Society of Western New York Inc and currently is a board member of Randy Henderson Ford/Lincoln in Webster, NY He was also a member of the Sounding Board of Contributors of the Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) and has been asked to serve as the Simon School faculty advisor for Alpha Kappa Psi, the new business fraternity at the University of Rochester BS, Business Administration, Indiana University MBA, Marketing The Ohio State University
