Victoria professor shortlisted for top alumni honour
Professor Kim Fam was flown to Australia compliments of the University of Newcastle last week in order to attend the University’s alumni award ceremony.
Although not the overall winner, he was one of four finalists for the Convocation Medal for Professional Excellence.
“It was a wonderful surprise to have been nominated and shortlisted,” says Professor Fam.
The Convocation Media is awarded to a graduate with an outstanding record of professional excellence in leadership, knowledge and/or professional practice.
The citation in the ceremony programme mentioned Professor Fam’s research in advertising and marketing in Asia which “has positioned him as an expert on marketing behaviours and consumer responses in Asia—issues that are of critical importance to growing business and industry activity in the region.”
It also highlighted the large number of grants he had received from industry sources over his academic career, as well as the impressive number high-grade publications his research had been featured in and his guest editorship of numerous journals including the Journal of Business Ethics and the Industrial Marketing Management Journal.
Also mentioned was the Marketing in Asia Group (MAG), a group Professor Fam established in 2007, which has connected more than 400 academics and practitioners from over 35 countries, and his election to the UK Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2008.
Professor Fam graduated with a PhD in Marketing from the University of Newcastle in 1997.