Professor Tony Travaglione

Professor Tony Travaglione is the Interim Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement and Partnerships, at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

In his role, Tony provides leadership to the Global Engagement and Partnerships division, which engages collaboratively across the globe, building the University’s profile and reputation and creating diverse opportunities for students, staff, alumni and community. Through the Global Engagement and Partnerships Strategy, the division develops partnerships with like-minded institutions and industry to drive high quality research and world-class education, and deeply engages an integrated global community of alumni and friends.

Tony is also responsible for delivering the University of Newcastle’s lead strategies, including internationalisation and the Asia Pacific focus of the Looking Ahead 2020 – 2025 strategic plan. He also ensures that the University achieves its goals and performance targets in international and domestic student recruitment, global engagement, alumni, advancement and philanthropy and communicating the University brand.

From 2017 – 2020,  Professor Tony Travaglione was Pro Vice-Chancellor of the Faculty of Business and Law at the University of Newcastle. In this role, Tony drove key initiatives to further position the Faculty of Business and Law as a quality, industry-engaged Faculty, and to sustainably deliver innovative learning and teaching opportunities. Tony’s leadership was instrumental to a number of key projects, including the MBA (Global), the Women in Master of Business Administration (WiMBA) Scholarship and the Student Financial Trading room. Tony was recently appointed on the International Advisory Board at the Institute of Management Technology in Dubai and is currently the President of the Australian Business Deans Council, providing leadership to 39 Business Schools, nationwide. 

Prior to the University of Newcastle, Tony was the Pro Vice-Chancellor at the Curtin Business School. In this role,  Professor Travaglione  led a number of major projects including the establishment of Curtin’s Law School. He was also vital to the creation of the Bankwest Curtin Economic Centre, an initiative recognised in the recent Business/Higher Education Round Table awards as the joint winner of the Ashley Goldsworthy Award for Sustained Collaboration between Business and Tertiary Education.  

Previously Professor Travaglione held several senior academic positions, including Head of School of Management at Curtin, Dean of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Adelaide, and Head of Research at the Workplace Research Centre at the University of Sydney. He has also held the position of Visiting Professor at Stanford University where he taught MBA students at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. 

Tony was previously a member on the International Advisory Board at the Institute of Management Technology in Dubai, and was the past President of the Australian Business Deans Council, providing leadership to 39 Business Schools, nationwide.

Professor Travaglione holds a PhD in Management and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Relations from the University of Western Australia. In 1998, Professor Travaglione was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Australia. He has been published over 100 times in the areas of change management, organisation commitment, workplace trust and emotional intelligence. Professor Travaglione’s recently published book Organisational Behaviour on the Pacific Rim is currently the best selling management textbook throughout Australia.

Throughout his career, Professor Travaglione has maintained strong engagement with the business community, having delivered research and other projects for organisations including ANZ Bank, BHP, QANTAS, Nespresso, Main Roads Western Australia, Westrail, Hunter Area Health, and Centrelink. He has also conducted projects for international organisations including Norwich Union, Royal Sun Alliance, Midland Bank, Guinness Brewing and London Underground. Professor Travaglione has shared the findings of his consulting experiences with presentations to American Academy of Management, the British Academy of Management, the International Work Psychology Conference and the Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference.