Dr Helen Lange Dean, Business Management Programmes and Director, U21 Liaison helen.lange@u21global.edu.sg Phone: +65-6410 1323 Fax: +65-6410 1358

Helen Lange is Dean, Business Management Programmes and Director, U21 Liaison at U21Global. Dr Lange's career spans professional roles in the banking and finance industry, as well as academic positions in banking and finance, and management. Prior to U21Global, Dr Lange was Associate Professor with Australia's Macquarie Graduate School of Management, where she was Director of MGSM Consulting, a business consulting group within the School, responsible for establishing a new business unit to provide consulting services to corporations and governments. Her most recent project was a large UNDP-funded project for the Malaysian Government. Before joining MGSM, Dr Lange was a member of faculty at the School of Banking and Finance at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Dr Lange's areas of expertise are financial management, enterprise risk management, corporate governance, financial risk management and bank management.

Dr Lange has extensive industry experience, with over 15 years in finance, banking, merchant banking and life insurance. Her consulting activities cover many aspects of finance and centre on investment banking and compliance and governance issues. The second edition of her book, Financial Institutions Management, has recently been published (McGraw Hill) and is used extensively in Australian universities' bank management programmes. She has recent publications in the areas of corporate finance, securitisation, corporate governance, takeovers, institutional investment, ownership concentration and small business financing. Dr Lange is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia, a founding board member of the Turnaround Management Association in Australia, and a member of a number of international finance and economics associations. She has a PhD from Macquarie University.

Research Interests

• Financial risk management and enterprise risk management
• Financial institutions management
• Securitisation
• Corporate governance and corporate sustainability

Professional Affiliations

• Fellow, Financial Services Institute of Australia
• Foundation Board member, Australian Chapter of Turnaround Management Association
• Small Enterprise Association of Australia and New Zealand
• Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ)
• Economic Society of Australia
• Asia Pacific Finance Association
• Western Economics Association of USA
• Western Finance Association of USA
• Australian Institute of Company Directors

Selected/Recent Publications

• Lange, H. (2002). "Competition and Market Friction: Evidence from Australian Mortgage Markets", Journal of the Academy of Commercial Banking and Finance 1 (2002): 83-96.
• Lange, H., I. Ramsay and L.E. Woo. "Corporate Governance and anti-takeover devices – evidence from Australia ", Corporate Governance – an International Review 8 no.3 (July 2000): 227-243.
• Lange, H. "Privately Funded Public Programmes: What can go wrong? The Australian case of Homefund", International Journal of Public-Private Partners hips 2 no.1 (September 1999): 113-136.
• Jeffrey, A., H. Lange and L.E. Woo. "An examination of survival rates of newly listed Australian stocks", Research in Finance 12 (1995): 217-229.
• Lange, H. and I.G. Sharpe. "Monitoring Costs and Ownership Concentration: Australian Evidence", Applied Financial Economics 5 (1995): 441-447.
• Lange, H., S. Armstrong and L.E. Woo. "Institutional investors, anti-takeover activity and shareholder wealth", Asia Pacific Journal of Management 11 no.2 (October 1994): 327-343.

Selected/Recent Presentations

• Lange, H., & Sahu, C. (2008, October). Indian board structure and size - The impact of changes to Clause 49. In C. Long (Chair), Corporate governance in China and India. Research symposium by Wiley-Blackwell and Old Dominion University, Virginia Beach, VA.
• Lange, H. "The Role of Education and Training in Attracting, Developing and Retaining Quality Managers", Presentation to SHRI Conference, Singapore, 3 May 2007.
• Lange, H., J. Spinks and V. Chan. "The development of soft skills in a rich e-learning environment", U21 E-learning conference proceedings, Guadalajara, Mexico, December 2006
• Lange, H. " Vietnam ’s membership of WTO: Issues and Challenges", Presentation to Ministry of Finance, Hanoi, Vietnam, 20 October 2006.
• Lange, H. "The Knowledge Economy: Education and Human Resource Development", Invited Speaker, 11th World Human Resource Congress, Singapore, 29 May- 1 June 2006.
• Lange, H. and J. Spinks. "E-learning – can it develop soft skills necessary for management?" Presented to IPSI – 2006 France, Carcassonne, 27-30 April 2006.
• Lange, H. "Learning for the Knowledge Age", Presentation to ARTDO Conference, Bahrain, 10 April 2006.
• Lange, H. "Learning for the Knowledge Age", Presentation to Centro Escolar University (CEU), Manila, Philippines, 1 March 2006.
• Lange, H. "Strategic Leadership", Presentation to Yuchengco Insurance Group, Manila, Philippines, 1 March 2006.
• Lange, H. "Corporate Governance and Basel II: HR Issue or business as usual?" Presentation to Philippines Bankers Council for People Management, Manila, Philippines, 2 March 2006.
• Lange, H. "Strategic Leadership", Presentation to Philippine Society for Training and Development, 2 March 2006.
• Lange, H. "E-learning: or Learning for the Knowledge Age", Presentation to Philippine Society for Training and Development, Manila, Philippines, 2 March 2006.
• "Risk Management – Why all the fuss?", Interwise webinar series, U21Global Head Office, Singapore.Pdf of PowerPoint presentation 1MB
• Lange, H. "E-Learning – Knowledge Management Challenges", Keynote Speaker at International Conference: Knowledge Management in Institutes of Higher Learning, Bangkok, Thailand, 21-23 February 2006.
• Khan, H. and H. Lange. "E-learning and Economic Development: An Overview", Online Education Berlin Conference, 30 November-2 December 2005, Berlin, Germany.
• Lange, H. and M. Neukirchen. "A Regression-based Analysis of Characteristics & Macroeconomic Drivers of House Price Changes in Australia ", Pan-Pacific Business Association Conference proceedings XXII, 25-27 May 2005, Shanghai, China.
• Lange, H. and P. Rice. "Should Dividends be Valued Twice: Some Preliminary Findings from Australia." Western Decision Sciences Institute Thirty-Fourth Annual Meeting, 22-26 March 2005, The Sutton Place Hotel, Vancouver B.C., Canada.
• Lange, H. "Continuing Education and Life Long Learning – An International Perspective", Invited Speaker at the 5th Melaka Twin Cities International Convention in conjunction with the Melaka Historic City Celebration, 5-6 May 2005, Melaka, Malaysia.
• Lange, H. "Education and Continuous Learning in a Bandwidth-rich Wired World", National Forum: Leveraging on Emerging Technologies, 31 May to 1 June 2005, Shah Alam, Malaysia.
• Lange, H. "Challenges to Continuing Education and Life Long Learning in Malaysia : Some Lessons from HRD Master Plan Project", 9th Malaysian Education Summit, 21-22 March 2005, Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Lange, H. "Financial Sector Reform: Risks and Implementation Issues", Invited Presentation to People’s Bank of China, 21 January 2005, Carlton Crest Hotel, Brisbane, Australia.

Professional Activities

• Reviewer for Corporate Governance, An International Review
• Inaugural Visiting Professor at Multimedia University, Malaysia, to promote academic leadership
• Member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University, Malaysia
• External Reviewer for Multimedia Cyberscape Journal
• Consultant for the UN-ESCAP Project "Investment and Economic Cooperation in the Tourism Sector in Developing Asian Countries", 1991

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