Robin Gauld

ROBIN GAULD joined Bond University in January 2025 as Executive Dean, Bond Business School. He was previously Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Commerce) and Dean, Otago Business School, from 2016-23, and Co-Director, Centre for Health Systems and Technology, at the University of Otago. Prior to his business school appointment, Robin was Head of the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the Otago Medical School, where he was based for 20 years after an academic appointment in public policy at City University of Hong Kong. He has a PhD from the University of Hong Kong (1996) and Doctor of Commerce from Victoria University of Wellington (2018). He has served on/chaired several AACSB and EQUIS Peer Review Teams. From September 2025, he will serve on the EQUIS Committee.

Robin was 2014 NZ-UK Link Foundation Visiting Professor, University of London; a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in 2008-09 at Boston and Harvard universities; Senior Fellow at the Boston University Health Policy Institute from 2009-13; and from 2013-2017, was founding Independent Chair of Alliance South which brought together clinical leaders and managers to focus on ‘whole of system’ approaches to care design in New Zealand’s Southern region. He is on the Advisory Board of the New South Wales Agency for Clinical Innovation, and the NZ Telehealth Forum, and serves on the Hong Kong Strategic Topics Grants Committee, chairing the Public Health sub-group. From 2020-22, he was President of the 150-member Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools, and in 2022 was elected as a Director of Business South (Otago Chamber of Commerce). He serves on the Advisory Board of Universiti Putra Malaysia School of Business and Economics; is on Faculty with the Centre for Healthcare Innovation, National Healthcare Group, Singapore; and the Internal Review Panel with the WHO Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.

Robin has published 200 peer-reviewed journal articles, 45+ book chapters and several books including The New Health Policy (Open University Press, 2009) which was awarded First Prize in category at the 2010 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards, and Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-Government, Computer Failure and Information System Development (2006; co-authored) which has been widely-used globally including in key reading lists at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He sits on leading journal boards including Health Policy, Government Information Quarterly, Health Expectations, Journal of Health Organization and Management, and International Journal of Information Management.