The Academic Board has the obligation to supervise the development of the Institute’s academic activities, and reassure and maintain the highest standards of teaching, scholarship and research processes.  A key responsibility of the Board is the design and review of Academic policies, guidelines and procedures; furthermore, the Academic Board provides quality assurance and monitors the effective implementation of all academic procedures. The Academic Board strives to constantly improving the Institute’s academic operation, by providing feedback through review processes scheduled on a regular basis.
Student Representation forms a vital part of the Academic Board Meetings, to ensure that our students rights and interests are heard and taken into account at all times.

Dr Lorraine Bennett’s professional life involves a range of senior leadership and academic roles spanning tertiary education, local and state governments as well as not-for-profit and private organisations. The connecting threads are a passionate interest in the areas of: leadership; scholarship of learning and teaching; tertiary education workplace reform and development; change management; quality assurance and improvement; and, organisation and staff capacity building.

The skills and experience that Dr Lorraine Bennett has acquired over 30 years have allowed her to make significant contributions to the prosperity and well-being of a number of organisations and individuals. Fundamental to Lorraine’s approach is that access to quality education and learning is the key to improving the human condition. In early 2015, Lorraine moved on from over 13 years at Monash University and later Federation University Australia (formerly the University of Ballarat) in order to pursue a range of part-time consultancy projects.

John Mack stepped down from his full-time academic position at the University of Sydney in 1997 and has been an Honorary staff member of its School of Mathematics and Statistics since then. In addition to his academic work, he was active in policy development and academic management at departmental, faculty and university-wide levels, chairing the University of Sydney’s Admissions Committee for many years and its Academic Board 1991-1997, when he was also a Fellow of Senate. He has had a professional involvement in mathematics education at state, national and international levels for over 40 years and is currently engaged with the NSW BOSTES Review of Stage 6 (Years 11-12) Mathematics as Chair of its Stage 6 Mathematics Curriculum Committee.

Tony Professor A. G. (Tony) Shannon AM is an Adjunct Professor at several Australian universities and an Emeritus Professor of the University of Technology, Sydney, where he was Foundation Dean of the Graduate Research School and Professor of Applied Mathematics.
He is on the Board of Trustees of the University of Notre Dame Australia and several small colleges. In 1987, he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to education.

Dr Abusalem is the External member of EEI academic board. With prior experience as the Head of Management Department at Ozford Institute of Higher Education and the acting Dean Learning and Teaching at Australian School of Management, he has numerous qualifications, both academic and professional. Dr Abusalem has a long history of involvement with students, which has enabled him to gain an extensive experience in international student issues through representational activities, meetings with Australian universities’ international students, and conference attendance. He received Victoria’s Award for Excellence in Multicultural Affairs and was nominated for Australian of the Year 2004, and is very active in presenting cross-cultural seminars to a number of Australian Universities.

Dr Abusalem has successfully guided the research agendas of numerous Masters and PhD students, across a variety of disciplines, to achieve excellent academic outcomes and demonstrated achievement in the successful supervision of research of higher degree student’s completion. The timely completion of seven PhD candidates demonstrates his ability to manage competing priorities and deliver on milestones and agreed outcomes within very tight time frames.

John has worked in theological education for over 30 years: teaching, researching, and leading in various forms.  Until 2019 John was Director of Learning and Teaching at the University of Divinity, responsible for the quality of courses, units and academic staff professional development. John is currently the Academic Dean at Stirling Theological College, is an accredited Expert with TEQSA (the Commonwealth higher education regulator) and sits on a number of Boards and Academic Boards. John is an ordained Anglican, with interests in the nature of joy (drawing on a PhD from the University of Cambridge), and in the study of Australian history, faith and life.

Dr Chandana is an Associate Professor in Information Technology/Computing and holds Adjunct Associate Professorships at Charles Sturt University, Australia,  and at the University of Da Nang, Vietnam. His career as an IT professional spans more than 30 years in IT organisations and at universities in Australia, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka. As an active researcher in the areas of computer architecture, digital systems, modeling and simulation, Dr Chandana has published more than 250 research articles and co-authored two books published by Prentice Hall. His commitment to fostering a research culture among IT master’s degree students has over the past five years resulted in the publication of more than 150 student papers either in Q1 and Q2 journals or presented at international conferences, including the annual IEEE International Conference on Innovative Technologies in Intelligent Systems and Industrial Applications (CITISIA) for which Dr Chandana has been a co-chair since its inception seven years ago. He is a senior member of IEEE, the IACSIT Association, and the IEDRC Research Centre.