Creative Thinking
Jun 21, 2022
Phil Dolan
Creative Thinking
After growing up on a dairy farm a small town on the South Coast of NSW, he first studied mathematics and computer science, worked in the IT industry and then obtained a Master’s in Business Administration. He received a scholarship to undertake a PhD in finance at Stanford University, USA, where his doctoral adviser was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Returning to Australia, he worked for Macquarie Bank’s, Investment Management Division for 13 years, while also teaching finance as an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. He then moved to academia as Head of the Department of Finance and Actuarial Studies at Macquarie, before becoming Dean of the Business School at the University of Western Australia in 2011.
Phil moved to Melbourne in 2017 from WA for family reasons and is now an Adjunct Professor at La Trobe University where he teaches Creative Problem Solving.