Dr.Calvin Lee, Australian-Korean Proponent of : 1) Strategic Foresight 2) Strategic and Holistic Leadership 3) Ethical Business Leadership Educator: Associate Professor of MBA at Skyline University UAE

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Dr. Calvin Chong Kun Lee, PhD DBA,
Citizen both of Australia and Korea
Associate Professor
<dr.calvin.lee@gmail.com>
1/204 Chetwynd Street
North Melbourne, Victoria 3051
Phone 61(3) 9326 9906
Mobile +(971) 55 764 9055 (UAE)
Skype: drcalvinlee
16/05/2016 8p
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Subject: Professor/Associate Professorship: Strategy/International Business: MBA
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1. CV
2. Photo
3. Overview table of 2001-2016: Schools, roles & duties etc.
Dear Madam/Sir,
I am Associate Professor and Academic Leader of ‘Strategic Management and Leadership’
of MBA Program, Skyline University, UAE.
I actually created courses for license from Ministry of Higher Education and
Scientific Research. The discipline has highest number of enrolment at Skyline.
 I am an active emerging industry-based researcher, relating to/energising postgraduate
teaching, based on in-industry experience, as attested in the CV
 I have taught and led programs in business/management with active engagement in
and service for industry in Australia since 2001 at RMIT (AACSB-accredited) and
Swinburne for the total of 12 years
 My recognised strength is Strategy and consistently scored approval rating of 90%+
last 3-4 years on postgraduate level. Student feedback on excellence in teaching is
attached or available for submit.
 I have authored two books on strategy.
 Date of availability: Sep. 1, 2016
I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Calvin Lee
Dr. Calvin Lee, PhD DBA
Associate Professor
RESUME
Dr. Calvin Lee, PhD DBA
PhD (RMIT), DBA (Swin), M. Policy (Melbourne), BSc (Seoul)
dr.calvin.lee@gmail.com
1/204 Chetwynd Street
North Melbourne, Victoria 3051
61(3) 9326 9906

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SUMMARY
 Dr. Lee was Academic Director of ‘MBA International’ Program at Swinburne University,
Sarawak campus from 2012 and at Hawthorn campus, 2008-2010.
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 He is supervising both Under- and Post-graduate programs of international business and
MBA. .
 Educated in Australia and Korea to dual doctorates (DBA and Ph.D.), Calvin Lee, as a
‘research-intensive’ and ‘industry-engaging’ business educator, entrepreneur, management
professional, historian of ideas of East-Asia, technologist, and public policy person pursued a
career in academia since 2000, after serving a number of years in the industries of information
technologies, telecommunications and automotive in Korea and thirteen other Asian,
European and North-American countries with well-known international companies as well as
locally-based ones. During this time, he acted as a multidisciplinary cross-cultural educator,
industry-based learning instructor, and public and private sector entrepreneurship consultant.
 He also played key roles in start-up of several international entrepreneurial and corporate
ventures. He combines international management experiences and gained empirical
evidences in teaching international relations, international development and business subjects.
 GCLT (Graduate Certificate of Teaching and Learning):
 He also has native or native-like fluency in Korean and English, high level proficiency in
Chinese, Japanese, Bahasa Malay-Indonesian and German and medium level proficiency in
business French and Italian.
1. Publication
Year of
Publication
Type of
Publication
Peer
Reviewed
Title
Remarks
2009/10 Book
Publisher
panel
reviewed
Intellectual History of East Asian
Strategy
ISBN
978-89-
91024-51-9-
933320
2010 Book
Publisher
panel
reviewed
Thought and Governance of East
Asia
ISBN
978-89-
91024-52-6-
93150
2011
Journal
Article
Yes
Integrating Domestic Field Trips into
International Business Education:
ExploringPedagogicalIssuesBehind
a Practical Implementation:
Journal of International
Business Education:
ABDC-B-
ranked
Citations: 2
2011
Journal
Conference
Proceeding
Yes
Renewable Energies and Strategy:
Australia
Ranked
conference
2014
Journal
Conference
Proceed
Yes Traditional Cultural Implications of
Korean Conglomerate Leadership
Ranked
conference
2014
Journal
Conference
Proceed
Yes
Dyadic Strategic Leadership
Ranked
conference
2015
Journal
Conference
Yes Strategic X Factor of UAE Hospitality
Industry’s Future
Ranked
conference

3. 3
Proceeding
Nov. 2015
Journal
Conference
Proceed
Yes
Comparative Cases on Strategic
Leadership of Hyundai vs. Huawei
ICBM 2015
2. INDUSTRY Partners: Co-research, Commercialisation, Funding and Placement
Organisations Co-research Commercialisation Funding
Potential
Placement
Opportunity
Korea Trade Centre Yes Yes Yes
Port of Melbourne Yes
Global Standard
One (GS 1)
Yes Yes
Strategic
Management
Institute
Yes Yes
Korea Rail
Research Institute
Yes Yes
Hyosung Corp.,
Wind Power
Yes Yes
3. Teaching & Learning Innovations: Strategy, Outcome and Agenda: FT/eFT/vFT
3.1 Strategy: explore student-empowered learning environs and collaborative innovation of
methods
3.2 Outcome: completion of 1st
phase of terrestrial Field Trips as research project.
3.3 Agenda: explore potential of technology-based e-Field Trips or virtual Field Trips
4. Community Engagement: Outcome and Agenda
4.1 Outcome: Two public seminars in 2010: collegially organised and managed
May 2010: Professor Bob de Wit: Public Seminar on Strategy:
September: Dr. Paul Hunter: Public Seminar on Strategy of Australian industry
4.2 Agenda: Two public seminars in 2011:
Infrastructure and Public Publicists v. Industry Debate
Re-Industrialisation of Australia: International Seminar on High Speed Rail
5. A page from my ‘Teaching Philosophy’ as shared with GCLT class of 2010.
My Teaching Philosophy has grown over a period of youth as student, industry years,
academic years of PhD candidacy and now as a teaching staff. It is rooted in the belief that
all humans are within an ‘anthropo-cosmic nexus’ (Tu, 1985) whereby each person
represents a meaningful micro-cosmos. Through life-long self-cultivation one can reach the
full potential of ‘becoming real human.’ Formal institutional education is a part of this lifelong
journey of self-cultivation of every human.

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As a business teacher and also as a co-traveller in this journey with students, I try to help
students contextualize the meaning of each process of understanding, learning and
applications within this broader and deeper self-introspection, with self-realisation that such
immanence of meaningful micro-cosmos residing within each student is their own starlight to
follow in the anthropo-cosmic world or ‘life-world’ realities (Habermas, 1987).
When search for or re-discovery of one’s meaning of inner self and/or potential is combined
with the practical steps of classroom and industry engagement such as my teaching agenda
with IB postgraduates going through ‘Teach, Research, Innovate & Professionally Engage’
(‘TRIP’), I see the delightful progress or turn-around happening with students.
While any student can achieve full potential in life and study, including that of business
irrespective of current standings of students’ capacity, it is an important practical process to
understand each student’s real life agenda on learning and career aspirations and help set
them on realistic footing with pragmatic step by step agenda, while building and keeping up
the healthy habit of continual self-cultivation both in intellect and skills, as indicated by
Walker (2001).
I delight in being a co-learner, mentor, intellectual and industry partner for students in search
of academic and professional excellence as a community of thoughtful and capable societal
constituents and business practitioners, as supported by Moon J. (2004).
References
 Habermas, Jürgen (1987) The Theory of Communicative Action. translated by Thomas
McCarthy, Cambridge: Polity
 Moon J. (2004) A Handbook of Reflective and Experiential Learning: Theory and Practice,
Oxon, Routledge Falmer
 Tu, Weiming (1985) The Value of the Human in Classical Confucian Thought in Confucian
Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation. SUNY Press: Albany, NY
 Walker, M. (2001), Reconstructing professionalism in university teaching – teachers and
learners in action, SRHE/Open University Press, Buckingham.
6. Educational History
2007-2009: DBA (Doctor of Business Administration): Swinburne University:
completed in May, 2009, on Faculty scholarship of full fee waiver.
Topic: Confucianism and Korean Business Groups (Chaebŏls)
2002-2007: Ph.D., RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Topic: Confucian Humanism as the Foundation of Human Rights and Economic Ethics:

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a Study of Korea, Japan and Republic of China
2000-2001: Master of Public Policy Management: The University of Melbourne: 2000
Bachelor of Science in Engineering: The Seoul National University
Major: Elastomer science, micro-electronics and industrial structure
7. Positions held in Industry
 1998-1999: Auto Venture Inc. (the US), Director, Nationwide Distribution and e-Commerce B2B
of Automotive
Products in Business Partnership of Roulunds (www.roulunds.dk)/A.P. Møller -
Mærsk Group of
Companies (http://www.maersk.com) :
 1995-1997: DK Automotive Polymers Ltd. (the First-tier Weatherproofing System
Developer/Supplier to
Hyundai, KIA, Ssangyong, Samsung-Renault and GM-Daewoo Motors)
Director of Corporate Planning and International Operations:
Annual Turnover USD 60 million, Employee 3,000:
Merged in 1999 to KAMCO (www.kamco.or.kr) and Cooper Standard Automotive
Inc., (www.cooperstandard.com)
 1991-1996: ITP Co. Ltd., (ASEAN), President,: Annual Turnover: USD 10 million
 1987-1990: Lotus Development Inc. (now of IBM: www.lotus.co.kr): Country Manager in Korea:
Technology Transfer and ICT Localizations through Strategic Planning and
Implementation:
Annual Turnover: USD10 Million:
 1987: Chief Negotiator for Joint Venture with State-owned Enterprises:
Yi-zheng Chemical and Fibre Company (now of SINOPEC: www. ycfc.com),
PR China and D & G SpA (Italy): Investment USD 10 million:
 1986-1987: Micro-Dynamics Inc. (now of Crispin Dynamics System Ltd.:
www.crispindynamics.com)
Director of Southeast Asian Franchise Operations: CAD/CAM Factory Automation Products for
TCF (textile-clothing-footwear)::
 1984-1986: Sprint Communication Inc. (www.sprint.com): Country Manager, Korea:
Annual Turnover USD 20 million
Strategic Partnership Management of Voice and Digital Communication through “Operating
Agreements” with leading Telcos
Innovation Management and Transfer of Technology: Sprint International and Korea Telecom
Strategy of Digital Integration of Voice, Data and Video: GTE Far East and Daewoo Telecom
 1980-1984: ITP Co. Ltd., (Korea), Managing Director,: Annual Turnover: USD 8 million:
In Business Partnerships with:
o Kochs Adler AG (now of Duerkopp Adler AG : www.duerkopp-adler.com):
Factory Automation and Quality-Productivity Enhancement System
o British United Machinery Group (now: USM Group Ltd. www.usmgroup.com)
o Georgia Bonded Fibers Inc.(now Bontex Inc.; www. bontex.com)
o Seidensticker GmbH (www.sidensticker.com): Purchasing and Quality Management
8. Professional Associations
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

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12. Referees:welcome to contact
 Dr. John Senior, Amity University:
o skillsdevelopment@webmail.co.za,
o Mobile +971 502056642
 Prof. Ahmed Gouher, Skyline Univ.,
o gouher.ahmed@skylineuniversity.ac.ae,
o Mobile +971 50-836 7165
 Prof. Des Cahill, RMIT (Australia):
o des.cahill@rmit.edu.au,
o Mobile +61 439 995 761
 Prof. Bob de Wit, Nyenrode Business University (Holland):
o b.dewit@strategy-works.com,
o Mobile + 31 653 778151
Period
Membership
(Type)
Organization Remarks
2008-current Regular British Academy of Management
2008-current Regular Strategic Management Society
2008-current Regular Academy of International Business
2008-current Regular Academy of Management
2008-current Regular
European Institute for Advanced
Studies in Management
2010-current Permanent
Korean Academy of Management
(KASBA)
2010-current Permanent
Korean Society of Strategic
Management
2016 Regular
Korean Academy of Middle East
Studies