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Dr Francis Norman is a Curtin researcher with 30 years’ experience in major resources engineering projects and almost four decades in industry. His research specialty is in the field of virtual teams, understanding how members of these teams communicate and interact when working on large engineering projects. Dr Norman is a member of the International Centre for Complex Project Management (ICCPM), past president of the WA Division of Engineers Australia and the current chair of the EA WA College of Leadership and Management committee.

Professor Fran Ackermann is a John Curtin Distinguished Professor in the School of Management. She is currently an Honorary Professor at Manchester University, an adjunct professor at Strathclyde University and has previously held positions at Bordeaux Business School, The University of Western Australia and Tilburg University. Professor Ackermann conducts industry funded research projects for a number of organisations across the globe in industries such as transport, engineering, construction, Oil and Gas and health. Her areas of expertise encompass; systemic project risk, complex project management and strategy. She is regularly invited to undertake bespoke executive education programs based on her research and experience teaching in the US, MEA and the UK. She is a British Academy of Management Fellow, a senior editor of Decision Support Systems and has written extensively publishing 5 books, 30+ book chapters and over 80 peer reviewed articles.