HR Awards - Panel of judges

Panel of Judges

Barbara Parry, Founder Expatriate Consulting, South Africa.
Noeleen Doherty, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University, United Kingdom
Stefan Mol, Amsterdam Business School, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Yvonne McNulty, Department of Management, Monash University, Australia
Natasha Gunn, Editor-in-chief Expatica.com

Barbara Parry
Barbara Parry is the founder and director of Expatriate Consulting. Prior to setting up her own company she was the Principle Consultant Expatriates for Mabili Reward in South Africa. She consults to Corporate on their strategy, policies, contracts, reward methodologies, and models relevant salary build up models for each client, dependent on what the client wants to achieve through their Expatriates. Prior to working with Mabili Reward, she was the Human Resources Strategic Business Partner for Lonmin Exploration PLC, a top tier platinum mining operation. Based in South Africa, where she was responsible for strategy, policy, legal, and tax compliance, and expatriate management and total reward for all exploration sites.
Barbara has had roles with MTN Group Management Services (Pty) Ltd, the leading Mobile telephone service provider in Africa and the Middle East, where for 11 years she was International Human Resources and Reward Manager, based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a teaching diploma, and marketing management diploma, has a GRP (global remuneration practitioner) certificate awarded by World at Work, and has participated in an advanced management certification programme and leadership academy programme, both whilst at MTN. She is currently completing her Bachelor of Commerce degree. She has served on the Executive Committee of the South African Reward Association (SARA) for 8 years, and in 2005 launched the Expatriate Management Association to provide a professional platform from which to develop expatriate managers in South Africa. She is still on the Committee as the Founder of the Association.

Noeleen Doherty
Noeleen is Senior Research Fellow at Cranfield University, School of Management. She is a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society and holds a first degree in Psychology, a Masters Degree in Applied Psychology and a PhD in organizational psychology. Having combined both academic and practitioner roles in previous employment including the role of occupational psychologist with the Royal Mail her focus is on generating research relevant to practice. Her areas of research interest focus on Human Resource Management and Careers research. Her work includes research on high potential careers, the career transitions of managerial populations, talent management and the career implications of international working for both individuals and organizations. Her current research interests focus on the self-initiated international experience and careers in the Third Sector. She speaks regularly at national and international conferences and her recent published works include articles in International Journal of Human Resource Management and The British Journal of Management.

Stefan Mol
Stefan Mol is assistant professor in Organizational Behaviour at the Amsterdam Business School of the University of Amsterdam. He was previously affiliated with the same university as a student and received his Master's degree in psychology upon the completion of a thesis validating the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) among both expatriate and international student populations while living in Taiwan. Upon returning to the Netherlands he worked as a research consultant with GITP International BV, but returned to academia in 2002 when he started his PhD in psychology at the Institute of Psychology of the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Stefan obtained his PhD in December 2007. His dissertation consists of four studies investigating expatriate selection practices and one study aimed at assessing the performance of police trainees in South-Africa. His research has appeared in Human Performance (2009) the Asian Journal of Social Psychology (2003), the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology (2005), the International Journal of Intercultural Relations (2005), and the International Journal of Selection and Assessment (2009). In addition he has co-authored several book chapters and is currently involved in the EU funded multidisciplinary ONTO-HR (www.ontohr.eu) project which aims to bridge the gap between vocational education and the workplace. Please consult www.abs.uva.nl/pp/stmol for more information."

Yvonne McNulty
Yvonne McNulty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Business at James Cook University, Singapore. Yvonne holds a PhD in international business from Monash University (Australia) which was awarded the prestigious ANZAM/Personnel Review "Best Doctoral Dissertation" in 2010 for Australia and New Zealand. A leading authority on expatriate return on investment, Yvonne is also well known for her research on trailing spouse and expatriate family research. She has broad corporate experience with over nine years in large U.S., Australian, and UK corporations, and five years fulltime service in the Royal Australian Navy. Yvonne has presented at numerous local and international conferences in the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific including 11th World HR Congress and the Deloitte Annual EMEA International Assignment Services Conferences in Barcelona (2007), Athens (2008) and Hong Kong (2008). She has published a number of articles in academic journals (International Journal of Human Resource Management, Global Business and Organizational Excellence, Cross Cultural Management: An International Journal, and International Studies of Management and Organization), and more than two dozen articles in the practitioner literature, in which she has been featured and cited in The New York Times, The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, The Australian Financial Review, and Economist Intelligence Unit. Yvonne is a member of the U.S. Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and Singapore HR Institute, and the founder of www.thetrailingspouse.com.

Natasha Gunn
Writer and online journalist Natasha Gunn is the Editor-in-chief of Expatica.com. Part of Expatica.com, Expatica HR is a website giving news and information to HR professionals and mobility managers on international and expatriate management issues. She is also the editor-in-chief of Expatica.com and features editor of Expatica Netherlands, an online resource for expatriates living in the Netherlands. In 2008, she was the editor of the European Professional Women's Network's latest publication Women on Boards: Moving Mountains, a book which discusses the key issues concerning board diversity and how it adds value to corporations. Before joining Expatica, Natasha worked for seven years teaching intercultural communication at two of the top business schools in Paris, France (ISCP and ESCP). She then moved to Amsterdam to run the Internal Communications Department for global science journal publishers Elsevier, and six years later joined Expatica. Natasha has built up the Expatica HR website over the past five years to help international HR and mobility managers keep up with the latest trends and best practices in expatriate and mobility management. Visit Expatica HR at www.expatica.com/hr.html.