Academic Board

Adjunct Professor Asif Iqbal has over twenty years’ experience as an
academic, most of it in academic management roles. Educated in several
continents, Adjunct Professor Iqbal’s initial commerce degree in Pakistan and a
degree from the UK was followed by employment as an academic at the
Assumption University of Bangkok and as the Head of the Marketing
Department at the Bradford University, Bangkok Campus/Centre.


In Australia, Adjunct Professor Iqbal lectured at the University of Wollongong,
Australian Catholic University, Central Queensland University, and the
University of Newcastle. He worked at the Central Queensland University for
six years as lecturer and the Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law. In
that role, Adjunct Professor Iqbal led a team of over 100 academics in wide-
ranging disciplines. As Sub-Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law, Adjunct
Professor Iqbal played a key role in the establishment of the new Sydney
campus of Central Queensland University.


In 2005, Adjunct Professor Iqbal was instrumental in setting up the Sydney
Campus of Curtin University of Technology where he worked as the Academic
Director leading a large team of academics until 2009. He managed the
comprehensive campus audits conducted by the Australian Universities
Quality Agency (AUQA) and was the Chair of the Academic Board at the
Sydney Campus of Curtin University of Technology.


Adjunct Professor Iqbal has been a member of various corporate and academic
committees at the Central Queensland University, Curtin University of
Technology, the University of Wollongong, the University of Newcastle,
Australian Institute of Business and Queensland International Business
Academy (QIBA Sydney).


As a member of the CPA Australia Universities Committee, he played a key
participant’s role in establishing a new membership pathway through the study
of foundation courses.


Following his role at Curtin University and prior to joining Southern Cross
School of Business (SCSB), Adjunct Professor Iqbal established the higher
education division of Williams Business College and led it successfully in
gaining the status of a non-self-accrediting higher education institution. The
College Governing Council then appointed Adjunct Professor Iqbal the
Campus Director and Dean of Williams Business College. Adjunct Professor
Iqbal served as the Chair of the Higher Education Executive Management
team and a member of the Governing Council and the Academic Board. He is
well-known for his expertise in higher education management and is widely
consulted in the areas of higher education registration and course
accreditation regulatory processes.