Adnan has over 25 years of experience in research and business development, strategic management, operations management and project management in industry and universities. Adnan has worked for five Australian universities in senior management roles supporting business development and research management. He has worked as the Chief Operating Officer managing a multi-university vision science research Centre at one of the world's leading universities, the Australian National University. Adnan has also worked as the Chief Operating Officer for another world-leading university, the University of New South Wales managing a government and industry funded research Centre in international finance and regulation. He has worked as a Business Development Manager at La Trobe University supporting its key research focus areas in Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, helping individual researchers and centres to develop research strategies and industry engagement activities for establishing and maintaining external partnerships and securing research funding. Adnan has taught strategic management in the La Trobe MBA program. Prior to joining the university sector, Adnan worked as regional manager, South East Asia for a multinational company ABB at its Singapore office. He has also worked at Siemens, Pakistan handling multimillion-dollar power generation projects. Adnan has a PhD in management from the University of Western Sydney, Australia, MBA from the University of Southern Queensland, Australia, MEng in electrical engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, MEngSc in biomedical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a BE in electrical engineering from NED University, Pakistan.
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