BA, MA (Hons), PhD
Pro Vice Chancellor (Business)
Contact details for Prof Michael Powell
Professor Powell is Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) at Griffith University. Previous to this appointment he held the position of Dean of the Griffith Business School, having joined Griffith in early 2004 from the University of Auckland. His current portfolio includes leadership of the University's Business Group, and associated Research and Academic Centres. In addition to his role as Pro Vice Chancellor (Business) at Griffith University, Michael is currently the Treasurer of the Australian Business Deans Council. The Council is a national entity comprising Deans, Heads and Directors of Australian University business faculties and schools seeking to advance and promote business education and research.
Professor Powell graduated from the University of Auckland with B Arts and M Arts (Hons) degrees in History. He trained as a teacher and taught at Auckland Grammar School before travelling to the USA where he held a Fellowship at the University of Chicago from 1976 to 1979. From 1979 to 1982, Michael was Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation at Chicago, engaged in studies of the professional organisations of lawyers. In 1982, he graduated with a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago.
From 1982 to 1988, he was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he continued his studies of the sociology and social organisation of the professions. In 1989 he took up a position at the University of Auckland, where he became Professor of Public Sector Management and Deputy Dean of the Business School.
Areas of responsibility
- Executive level leadership and management of the Business Group.
- Strategy planning for the Group.
- Management of the Group budget and student load targets.
- High level external representation of the University and Group nationally and internationally.
- Acting Nathan Provost.