Professor Phyllis Tharenou

Phyllis Tharenou is an Emeritus Professor of Flinders University, having retired at the end of January 2021 after 11 years in executive roles. She was the Vice-President and Executive Dean (VPED) of the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders since July 2017 to January 2021. She was the interim VPED of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences following being Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (2010-2017) whilst interim Dean of the Flinders Business School (2014-2017). She came to Flinders University from being the Executive Director of Social, Behavioural and Economic Sciences (SBE) at the Australian Research Council (ARC); the Chair and member of the SBE College of Experts; and the Dean Research at UniSA, after balanced teaching-research appointments at Monash, Queensland and Griffith Universities, and teaching-only at the Queensland Institute of Technology (1979-1995). She was Executive Director of HRM in the Public Sector Management Commission in Queensland on leave from UQ. She has a BA Honours (First Class), Master of Psychology and PhD (UQ) and is an organizational psychologist. She is recognized for her research on gender differences in managerial career advancement, women in management, international careers, training and development, and some specific areas of HRM. She is an elected Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (US, 2009) and the Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (1999). Since 2020 she has been ranked annually in Stanford University’s World’s top 2% most-cited researchers in business and management. and as a leading scholar within the top 1% in the social sciences and humanities by Research.com based on citation-based metrics. She is a highly ranked scholar in the top 0.05% worldwide by Scholar GPS for lifetime productivity and impact over her career, specifically in the specialties of HRM, International Business, and Gender and Women's Studies.