MBus (Acc) (Monash), CA (Aust), CMA( Aust)
Dr. Leon Duval is Emeritus President of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia). He is a practising Management Accountant with over 25 years experience in the area. He runs his own professional practice, Duval Partners, and has been involved in the installation of over 100 Activity Based Costing (ABC), Balanced Scorecard and Cost Management systems to a diverse range of clients.
As an educator and trainer, Leon has worked for Monash University, the Mt. Eliza Business School, CPA Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants (Aust) at which he was responsible for developing the Advanced Management Accounting module in its Professional Year program. He is the Dean of the Australian Institute of Finance and Management, and also a faculty member of the Wharton Institute of Technology and Science, both are accredited by the Institute of Certified Management Accountants (Australia) as recognised providers of its CMA program in Australia. In this capacity, Leon has been a much sought after presenter in Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Papua New Guinea
DipM UK MBA PhD Bradford UK FCA CPA CMA
Professor Janek Ratnatunga, MBA, PhD (Bradford), Dip. M, FCA, CPA, CMA, is Chief Executive Officer of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. His previous appointments were Dean and Head of Commerce at the University of South Australia and
Head of Department and Chair in Business Accounting at Monash University, Australia. He has also held academic positions at the University of Melbourne and the University of Canberra in Australia and the Universities of Washington, Richmond and Rhode Island in the USA. He is currently the Editor of the Journal of Applied Management Accounting Research. He has authored/co-authored twenty-five books on strategic cost management, entrepreneurship,
financial accounting, accounting theory and financial modelling and over 250 academic and professional papers.
He has worked in the profession as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG, and is currently a consultant for the World Bank. He has
undertaken a major consultancy for the Australian Department of Defence in the valuation of strategic capabilities, and has valued the ‘brand’ capabilities of major Telecommunication and IT companies
worldwide. He is also a world authority on the business and accounting implications of global warming and carbon trading. Professor Ratnatunga conducts on an annual basis in a number of countries in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific region think-tanks and workshops for CEOs, CFOs and Financial Controllers of major companies in the areas of ‘Strategic Cost Management’ and ‘Strategic Business Analysis’.
He has been awarded the prestigious joint American Accounting Association, AICPA (USA), CIMA (UK) and CMA (Canada) Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award. The award is given annually to a paper published within the last five years in a refereed academic journal that has the greatest potential impact on Management Accounting Practice.
Dr Chris D’Souza is currently the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of CMA Australia. After a successful career spanning over three decades in professional practice as well as in corporate management, Dr. Chris D’Souza decided to retire from full time corporate employment to work for the betterment of the accounting profession. CMA Australia enlisted his services and appointed him as their COO & CFO in March 2017. They also appointed him as the CFO of their sponsored online univer-sity, Calwest and Syme BusinessSchool.
Dr Chris D’Souza now delivers training courses for management accountants in Cambodia, Dubai, Indonesia, Philippines and Abu Dhabi. Dr Chris D’Souza has worked at a very senior management level in financial accounting, management accounting and management/taxation consulting across many countries.
Professor Brendan O’Connell is Professor of Accounting at RMIT and also President of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. He has worked as an analyst and bond dealer with major investment banks and has been employed in leading universities in the US, Australia and Asia including Monash University and the University of Richmond in Virginia.