New External Engagement roles at the Business School
1 July 2021
Professor Deborah Levy, Head of the Department of Property, and Dr Bodo Lang, Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing, have taken on additional roles as the inaugural Associate Dean and Assistant Dean External Engagement for the Business School.
Associate Dean External Engagement
Professor Deborah Levy is the inaugural Associate Dean External Engagement for the Business School, beginning 1 July 2021 for a three-year term. In this role Deborah will provide leadership in the faculty’s external engagement plan and build upon the work carried out by Deputy Dean Professor Tava Olsen and the Faculty’s Engagement Committee.
Deborah joined the University in 1986 and has been Head of the Department of Property since 2008. Deborah is passionate about the mutual benefits of effective external engagement. Her success in maintaining close links with industry in effectively developing meaningful and dynamic linkages between the industry and the department of property has been widely recognised. Deborah will continue in the role as Head of Property.
Deborah will be working with Bodo Lang as Assistant Dean (see below). They are both excited by the challenge in ensuring the current productive relationships held within the School together with future initiatives will become embedded into our research, knowledge exchange, teaching and social responsibility.
Read more about Deborah.
Assistant Dean External Engagement
Dr Bodo Lang is the Assistant Dean External Engagement for a term of three years which commenced 1 July 2021.
Bodo’s career is a blend of experience from both the commercial and academic sectors. His commercial career began in Germany in advertising, after which he worked as a management consultant in New Zealand for Deloitte Consulting, a global consulting firm. Following this, Bodo held a senior management position in Singapore at NFO WorldGroup, at the time the world's third largest market research firm.
The other half of Bodo’s career has been in academia. Bodo worked as in academic and Head of Department roles at various providers of tertiary education. Until December 2019, he was the Head of Department in marketing at the University of Auckland.
Due to his industry background, his research focuses on the intersection of academic rigour and practical relevance. Bodo has received three awards for his research. Bodo is also a passionate teacher and has received two teaching awards and has sustained excellence for nearly two decades of teaching.
Bodo is passionate about external engagement. As part of his research, he has employed extensive external engagement at regional level and national level public organisations. He has also successfully engaged with the business community and interacted with business executives up to CEO level and with executives in many smaller organisations, such as community organisations, and start-ups. He is one of the University’s most prolific academics when it comes to interacting with the media, with a career total of more than 850 engagements, valued at more than $3.5 million by the university’s media monitoring agency.
Read more about Bodo.