EIL Authors

Professor Denny Meyer BSc (Hons) Mathematical Statistics (1973) University of Natal, South Africa; MBL and DBL, University of South Africa (1981, 1985). She is currently a member of the executive for the Centre for Mental Health at the Swinburne University of Technology and a member of the Department of Health Science and Biostatistics. Professor Meyer is an applied statistician with particular interests in the area of mental health.  Professor Meyer’s current research includes the evaluation of eTherapy interventions, risk assessment in areas such as traffic crashes and suicide, using a variety of modelling approaches (machine learning, visualisation techniques, structural equation modelling, time series analysis and multi-level modelling). 

She also studies the engagement of respondents with online services (e.g. mental health services). She has had a significant number of national and international collaborations, more than 240 peer reviewed publications and has supervised 34 PhD and 2 Masters projects to completion. She has been the recipient of major project grants (including Australian Research Council (ARC), Mental Illness Research Fund (MIRF), Medical Research Future Fund and Beyond Blue) with total funding >$5.8 million over her career.

To the EIL Studies, Professor Denny Meyer’s contribution has been invaluable. She is the co-author in most of the publications with Professor Selvarajah. Her contribution to the statistics analysis in all the EIL publications has been consistent and of high quality.

Dr Suku Sukunesan is a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology within the Information Systems Department. He is also the Program Director for Masters in Business Information Systems and Senior Research Fellow. He currently holds two patents and has a keen interest in disruptive technologies, social media applications and innovative business models. Dr Sukunesan has to date received over USD$2 million in competitive funding for research.
 
Skilled in grasping the big picture and implementing solutions with available resources; Dr Sukunesan has a broad range of expertise and understanding of innovation, technology and systems approach. His extensive experience in working with SMEs and MNCs gives him a great insight towards the challenges of technology implementation and digitalisation across South East Asian countries. He has co-authored in a number of EIL studies.

André de Waal (1960) is Academic Director of the HPO Center, an organization which conducts research into high performance organizations. He is also a partner at the Finance Function Research & Development Center, a company that aims to help finance functions to transform in a high-performing department. André has been a consultant and partner with Arthur Andersen for 16 years. 

André was also 13 years Associate Professor Organizational Effectiveness at the Maastricht School of Management. He has been guest lecturer at the Free University Amsterdam, University of Amsterdam, and Erasmus University Rotterdam, and currently is a visiting fellow at Cranfield University, UK and senior lecturer at Wittenborg University of Applied Sciences. André holds a MSc in Chemistry from Leiden University (the Netherlands), a MBA from Northeastern University Boston (USA) and a Ph.D. in Economics from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). He was selected by managementboek.nl as one of the Dutch Masters in Management, ten people who have influenced management thinking in The Netherlands the most in the past decade.

André has published more than 400 articles (among which more than 100 academic publications) and 33 books. Among the books are What Makes A High Performance Organization (Global Professional Publishing, 2012), Strategic Performance Management (Palgrave MacMillan, 2nd edition, 2013) and High-Performance managerial Leadership (Praeger, 2020). His articles can be read on www.hpocenter.com and www.andredewaal.eu.

Professor JASK Jayakody serves as the Director, Institute of Human Resource Advancement, University of Colombo on secondment. His substantive position is an Associate Professor in Management & Organization Studies at the Department of Management & Organization Studies, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo at present.

Professor Jayakody completed B.Sc. in Management (Public) Special from University of Sri Jayewardenepura, and MBA and PhD from the Postgraduate Institute of Management of the same university. He is a Commonwealth Fellow.

He has served as the Unit Coordinator, Postgraduate & Mid-career Development Unit and the Head, Department of Management & Organization Studies, Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Colombo. In 2013 he assumed duties as the Head, PIM Research Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Management, University of Sri Jayewardenepura on sabbatical and he volunteered to serve at the same capacity in 2014.

Professor Jayakody is a member of the Council of Management, National Centre for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (NCAS) and Member of the Board of Study, Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing. He has served as an invited member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Open University of Sri Lanka and a member of the Board of Directors, Sri Lanka Handicrafts Board (Laksala), Member of the Board of Study of Management, National Institute of Library and Information Sciences, University of Colombo.

Professor Jayakody’s research focuses on leadership and change, and exchange relationships in organizations. He has published in journals including International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Journal of Bank Marketing, Journal of Knowledge Management, Journal of Management Development, The Economic and Labour Relation Review and Management Decision. He has served and continues to serve as a member of the editorial board of Leadership, Contemporary Management Research, Sri Lankan Journal of Management and reviews for a range of journals.

He teaches leadership at master’s level and research methods for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral students. He has supervised many dissertations at bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral levels and serves as an examiner for several doctoral theses.

In addition to being an academic, he also engages in consultancies and has provided his services to a range of public, private and not-for-profit organizations including CEAT Kelani International Tyres (Pvt) Ltd, Keels Food Products (PLC), Information & Communication Technology Agency (ICTA) Sri Lanka, Lily Hotels (Pvt.) Ltd., Republic of Maldives and Integration International Management Consultants, Germany.

Dr Samir Shrivastava is currently Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management and Marketing at Swinburne University in Melbourne. Samir had earlier served in the Indian army as an infantry officer for over 11 years. He has taught across a range of subjects including Organisational Behaviour, Strategy (Capstone unit), Knowledge Management, and Strategic Human Resources Management. His interests lie at the cusp of strategy, OB, and HR. he has published in journals such as Human Relations, HRM, Journal of Business Ethics, and HRD International. He has applied the EIL framework to study managerial excellence in the South African context.