Ray Cooksey is an Emeritus Professor at the UNE Business School, University of New England, Armidale, Australia. His research mainly focuses on the areas of decision making and cognition, chaos and complexity theory, organisational and behavioural systems theory, leadership, teacher judgment, pluralist approaches to research, climate change and adaptation, and multivariate statistics. 

Gael McDonald is a Professor and President of RMIT Vietnam. Her main research interests are in international marketing, human resource management, and organisational behaviour.