Members elected by staff
Member elected by and from the professors
Professor Jean du Plessis
Position: Professor
Term of appointment: until 31 December 2013
Jean is currently a Professor of Law at Deakin University. He studied in South Africa and obtained his Doctorate in Law (LLD) in 1991. He served a 3-year term as Head of the Deakin Law School from 2000-2002 and was the President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association (CLTA) in 2007 and 2008. Jean has spent extensive time doing research in the UK and in Germany (as Alexander von Humboldt Scholar) in the areas of corporate law and corporate governance. He is the co-author of several textbooks on South African corporate law and he has published extensively in international refereed law journals in the areas of corporations law and corporate governance. He published four books as co-author since 2005.
Since 2004 Jean has been involved in the South African Corporate Law Reform Program as part of a small international reference group that assisted the South African Department of Trade and Industry with the new South African Companies Act 71 of 2008, which commenced on 1 May 2011. Jean became a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD) in November 2011 and is currently teaching the units Corporate Governance, Corporate Law and Corporations Law at Deakin University.
Member elected by and from the academic staff
Mr Neville Millen
Position: Senior Lecturer
Term of appointment: until 31 December 2014
Neville Millen has been on the academic staff at Deakin since 1977. He teaches social research methods and the sociology of health and law. His research interests are in the sociology of health and illness, chronic illness and stigma, with particular emphasis on the politicisation of illness in public health policy. He has published fifteen refereed articles in public health and medical journals and is the co-author of the book Chronic Illness: New Perspectives and New Directions.
Neville has held appointments at the Australian Institute of Family Studies, La Trobe University, the Victorian Chronic Illness Alliance and the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA, where he taught the sociology of Australian society and culture and helped establish student and staff exchange programs.
Neville serves on a review committee on hip prostheses for the Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing. He is also a member of Writers Victoria and has won several prizes for his writing.
Qualifications:
BA(Hons) LaTrobe, M Soc Sci (Applied) Queensland, TPTC ( Melb)
Member elected by and from the general staff
Ms Helen Keogh
Position: Executive Officer for the School of Management and Marketing
Term of appointment: until 31 December 2013
Ms Helen Keogh is Executive Officer for the School of Management and Marketing in the Faculty of Business and Law. She has been a Deakin staff member since 1998, and has held positions in the Division of Student Administration and in the Faculty of Health, Medicine, Nursing and Behavioural Sciences.
She is a member of the Association for Tertiary Education Management.
Qualifications:
BEc (Monash)
