Professor Malcolm Tull

BSc (Hull), PhD (Murd)

Professor Malcolm Tull is presently the Dean of the Murdoch Business School. He has extensive experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units in economic theory, economic policy, and economic history, and a wide background in administration at Murdoch University, having performed a key role in the early development of the Murdoch Business School. He has a strong international record of publications in the disciplines of maritime economics and economic history. He was joint editor of the prestigious International Journal of Maritime History from 2000-2008, the author of A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 (1997), a Senior Editor for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (2007), and co-editor of Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008). A Fellow of Murdoch University’s Centre for Asian Studies since 1999, Malcolm was appointed Principal Investigator for the Asian History of Marine Animal Populations Project in 2006, initiating his own investigation into Indonesian shark fishing as part of this multi-national project. In 2008 Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association. In December 2009 Malcolm was awarded Life Membership of the Australian Association for Maritime History. He is currently President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch. Malcolm continues to teach and to supervise honours and postgraduate students at the Murdoch Business School.

Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150. Tel: (61-8) 9360 2481, Fax: (61-8) 9310 7725, Email: M.Tull@murdoch.edu.au