Ernest Alan Buttery, Professor of marketing, University of Western Sidney and director of Research for the School of Marketing and International Business.

High academic qualifications: 1988 - PhD thesis - University of Strathclyde 'New Paradigm Research within Management Systems'; 1974 - MSc Dissertation - Bradford University "Corporate Planning in the Multinational Enterprise"; 1970 - Diploma in Management Studies; 1967 - Diploma in Marketing (Chartered Institute of Marketing and Sales Management).

Academic leadership and experience: 2001 - Professor of Marketing and Director of Research for the School of Marketing and International Business; 1999 - 2001 - Dean, Faculty of Management UWS Hawkesbury; 1998 -99 - Foundation Professor of Marketing UWS (Hawkesbury); 1992-98 - Foundation Professor of Management, James Cook University (tenured); 1990-92 - Sub Dean and Senior Lecturer Graduate School of Management (GSM), The University of Queensland (UQ); 1981-89 - Lecturer (tenured) The University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (UK) latterly Director Scottish Marketing Projects Ltd (Senior Lecturer scale tenured); 1975-81 - Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer Liverpool Polytechnic; 1972-74 -Head of Sales Planning and Marketing Intelligence Branch, National Coal Board, Headquarters, London.

Grants and other support (the most remarkable): £100,000 from the Scottish Development Agency (SDA) & Ethicon Ltd. to finance the Ethicon Teaching Company Scheme; £70,000 from SDA/Pilkington to finance the Pilkington Marketing Teaching Company scheme. Re-search interests are mainly in marketing, strategy and Industrial Business with the link between them being the provision of decision support systems. There is an interest in business ethics.