Our Team
Our team consists of three principals, working with a range of associates and partners.
Please contact any of the principals for a conversation about how we might assist you.
Please contact any of the principals for a conversation about how we might assist you.
Dr. Tim van Gelder
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Dr. Paul Monk
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Dr. Neil Byron
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tvg@austhinkconsulting.com
+61 (0) 438 131 266 Tim van Gelder MA PhD GAICD is a founder and a Principal Consultant. He is also Principal Fellow (Associate Professor) in the School of Philosophy, University of Melbourne. He is a cognitive scientist specializing in reasoning and decision making. He pioneered the mapping techniques which underpin many of Austhink’s activities, and as founder and CEO of Austhink Software, created the Rationale and bCisive software packages. He has provided consulting and training services to many large organisations. He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and on the Editorial Board of the journal Informal Logic. In 2001 he was awarded a Eureka Prize for his work in critical thinking. "Tim van Gelder is known internationally for his outstanding work in cognitive science, and for his highly influential publications in a variety of fields. He is most famous for his pioneering work in the area of computer-aided argument mapping, and the development of the acclaimed mapping software Rationale. I recommend him without hesitation." |
pmm@austhinkconsulting.com
+61 (0) 433 128 818 Paul Monk MA PhD is a polymath and widely known as a public intellectual. After completing his PhD in International Relations, looking at cognitive and policy aspects of US counter-insurgency operations during the Cold War, he worked for a number of years in Australia's Defence Intelligence Organisation on East Asia, with a particular emphasis on the challenge of North Korea, the stagnation of Japan and the rise of China. He was head of China analysis in 1994-95 and has remained a widely consulted commentator on Chinese and international affairs since then. He is a prolific commentator on international affairs in the Australian media and may well be unequalled in this country for intellectual breadth and depth, but especially for his ability to rapidly apply that profound resource to challenges in the broad arena of human affairs. He has written four books including Thunder from the Silent Zone: Rethinking China (2005) and The West in a Nutshell: Foundations, Fragilities, Futures (2009). |
nb@austhinkconsulting.com
Neil Byron BSc MA PhD GAICD is an economist and policy analyst. He was a Commissioner in the Productivity Commission from April 1998 to March 2010, where he presided over ten public inquiries, particularly those dealing with the environment, agriculture and natural resource management issues. He has worked in many countries around the world as an economic development consultant, especially as regards water resources, forestry and fisheries. Earlier in his career, he also worked for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, taught economics at the Australian National University, where he was the founding director for the program in environment and development; and served as assistant director general at the Centre for International Forestry Research, in Bogor, Indonesia. He has a BSc (with first class honors) from the ANU, a Masters degree in economics and a PhD in resource economics from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Director of Earthwatch Australia and a Member of the Independent Science Panel for the Great Barrier Reef. Since June 2012, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. |
