Appointed on secondment to Macquarie International since 2007, Ernie is the Director for International Research Programs. He is responsible for international agreements with universities for shared research student programs and for recruiting international research students to help achieve the University’s strategic goals.

Ernie Jordan joined the international office of the university after 12 years at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management where he was professor of management specialising in IT management and previously its Director of HDR. He taught in the areas of IT governance, IT management, statistics and operations research. His broad area of research is the strategic application of information technology with an emphasis on electronic business. He has supervised many research students.

Over the last 10 years, he has researched areas of IT risks, both strategic and operational. This research has been expanded to include the portfolio of risks that organisations face in managing IT, in particular the challenge of making sense of the technological, strategic and operational risks to board members to ensure the appropriate governance of the organisation’s IT.

Currently he has research students working actively in IT risk, governance and strategy with a variety of business partners. His book, “Beating IT risks”, was published by Wiley early in 2005 and has been translated into Finnish and Chinese.

Before joining Macquarie University, Ernie spent 8 years at the City University of Hong Kong. Prior to that his career has included some 10 years in the IT industry and several academic appointments.


Qualifications: B.Sc. in Mathematics (Aston), Diploma in Statistics (Aberystwyth), PhD (Hong Kong) Member of the Australian Computer Society, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Chartered Statistician

Prior to joining Macquarie University, Kristin worked in both corporate and higher education sectors in China and Australia. She was an Associate Lecturer in English at Beijing Medical University (now College of Medicine, Peking University), and Project Officer at the (British) National Power’s branch office in Beijing. After completing her MBA at the Australian National University in 1999, she worked as a Conference Manager at a Sydney-based business-to-business media company till the end of 2002.

Kristin has been working at Macquarie University since early 2003. She has worked in various professional roles at both departmental and central university offices, including Academic Program Administrator at Department of Business and Commencement Officer at the Higher Degree Research Office.

From July 2008 to May 2010, Kristin was Coordinator, Research Relations at Macquarie International’s HDR Marketing and Development Unit. Her experiences in business development and marketing as well as knowledge of teaching and student administration in Australian and overseas universities enabled her to effectively facilitate Macquarie University's research relations with overseas universities.

Qualifications: BA-English for Science & Technology (Sichuan University, China) MBA (Australian National University) Professional Translator, English-Chinese (NAATI)