Rotary Hawthorn Meeting 13th October 2020

Phil Dolan - Our Man Behind The Badge

Phil Dolan is originally from a small town on the South Coast of NSW. He first studied mathematics and computer science and worked in the IT industry before undertaking a Masters in Business Administration. He was then fortunate to secure a scholarship to undertake a PhD in finance at Stanford University in the US, where his doctoral adviser was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. On returning to Australia, he worked for Macquarie Bank in the Investment Management Division for 13 years, while also teaching finance as an adjunct professor at Macquarie University. He then moved to academia as Head of the Department of Finance and Actuarial Studies at Macquarie, before becoming Dean of the Business School at the University of Western Australia in 2011. He moved to Melbourne in 2017 and is now an adjunct professor at La Trobe University where he teaches Creative Problem Solving. He is also an active angel investor, with a focus on female founded startups, and has invested in around a dozen such businesses. He has been a member of Rotary for about two years.