BCom (Hons) (UNSW) AM PhD (UMichigan) Formerly the Dean of the Faculty of Business, Technology and Sustainable Development at Bond University, Professor Marchant took up the newly created position on Monday, 19th May 2008. Prior to his affiliation with Bond University he was the Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Melbourne. He has also been on the faculties of the University of Connecticut, the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD), the University of Texas at Austin and the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. As well Professor Marchant has also held positions with the Reserve Bank of Australia and Woolworth’s (Australia) Ltd. His expertise lies within the areas of performance measurement and evaluation, strategy implementation, cost management and the use of accounting information for strategic decision making. Professor Marchant conducts research and consults on performance measurement and evaluation, strategy implementation, cost management and the use of accounting information for strategic decision making. He has been a KPMG Research Fellow and the recipient of a KPMG Research Grant and is currently the recipient of both an ARC Discovery and an ARC Linkage grant. Research currently in process investigates the impact of planning, evaluation and control systems on organisational learning, analyses the impact of implementing a balanced performance measurement system on strategic decision making, and examines the process of aligning performance management systems. Professor Marchant is widely published including articles that have appeared in the Accounting Review, the Journal of Accounting Research, Behavioural Research in Accounting, Organisational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, Journal of the American Tax Association, Advances in Taxation and Psychological Reports.