About the authors
Chris Rowley
Dr Rowley, BA, MA (Warwick), DPhil (Nuffield College, Oxford) is the founding Director of the Centre for Research on Asian Management and inaugural Professor of Human Resource Management at City University, London, UK. He is Editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review, Series Editor of the Working in Asia and Asian Studies book series and Director (Research and Publications) of the HEAD Foundation, Singapore. Professor Rowley has held visiting appointments at leading Asian universities and several journal editorial boards. He has given a range of talks and lectures to universities and companies internationally, with research and consultancy experience with unions, business and government, and his previous employment includes varied work in both the public and private sectors. He conducts research in a range of areas, including international human resource management and Asia Pacific management and business. He publishes widely, including in leading US and UK journals, with over 370 articles, books and chapters and other contributions, and practitioner and knowledge transfer output and engagement.
Wes Harry
Dr Harry is currently Organisation and HRM Adviser to an Asian government ministry. Previous positions include HRM Adviser to Sovereign Wealth Funds in Asia and to the oil sector of a Gulf state, Head of HR of the world’s largest Islamic bank based in Saudi Arabia (the only foreigner to have held this post), Head of HR and IT of a major Gulf commercial bank, General Manager – Personnel of a Middle Eastern Airline, and Personnel Manager of an East Asian Airline. He holds a PhD in international human resource management from the Graduate Business School, University of Strathclyde, an MA in Manpower Studies (CNAA) and a BSc Sociology (London). Wes is an Honorary Visiting Fellow of Cass Business School as well as being a member of the adjunct staff of the University of Bradford School of Management. He supervises doctoral and masters level students, has written chapters and journal articles in academic works on international HRM topics and has worked and travelled in most Asian countries. He has books and journal special editions under way on the subjects of managing sustainably, HRM and human rights, business ethics and managing across cultures.