Staff profile

Qualifications

BSc(Hons) UoM/UCNW, MBA Indiana State University , PhD RMIT

Area of study

Business
Management
Marketing

Brief profile

Dr Navin K Veerapa is well traveled internationally and has productively interacted with professionals and students from wide ranging origins. Furthermore, he is completely bilingual in written and spoken English and French. He came to Australia on a scholarship to study his PhD degree which focuses on the increasing relevance of corporate social investment in the present stage of globalization. He also holds an MBA degree from the United States as well as a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and Environmental Studies.

He has several years of business development experience at a managerial level internationally. In North America he worked for clients such as Nestlé, Simplot and GAP. He has also been instrumental in developing and maintaining customer relationships at the highest level in eastern and southern Africa for a major international consulting company. In this role, he successfully contributed to the generation of new business from international organisations such as the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the African Union and the World Bank. While carrying out the role of General Manager of a group of companies in the pharmaceutical sector, he planned and supervised the implementation of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) at the group's manufacturing plant. He also turned around the pharmaceutical company by significantly boosting the distribution of existing products while introducing new ones. A recipient of several scholarships and awards, he has undertaken a number of professional enhancement courses.

Dr Veerapa is an experienced lecturer having lectured and taught at a number of universities in Melbourne . Over the last five years he has taught the following business subjects: Marketing Channels Management, Logistics and Fulfillment, Customer Relationship Management, Business Strategy and International Marketing while at the same time conducting industry funded research for the car industry. Currently he is teaching Marketing, Advanced & International Marketing and Services Marketing at the Graduate School of Management, La Trobe University in the MBA Program. While well known for achieving consistently high ratings in terms of teaching quality, Dr Veerapa is a nurturer of productive relationships with the business community and is passionate about research supervision and pastoral care.