Grant Michelson is Professor of Management in Macquarie Business School. He is an elected member of Academic Senate of Macquarie University representing the Business School for three terms from 2021 until the end of 2026. His research interests include business ethics, corporate social responsibility (CSR), organisational behaviour (especially the role of communication in organisations), and how people experience work. Current activities are focused on modern slavery, the concept of suffering, and ways to resolve these challenges. He has extensive senior leadership experience and strategic capability in managing people, projects and processes across different institutions and national settings including:

• Chair/Convenor of the 13th Australasian Business Ethics Network (ABEN) hybrid conference, Sydney, November 2023.
• Associate Dean, Learning & Teaching (interim) in Macquarie Business School, Macquarie University from April to Sept 2020. 
• Chair/Head of the Dept of Marketing & Management (and then Dept of Management) at Macquarie University from 2016 to Sept 2019;
• Associate Dean of Research and Higher Degrees in the Faculty of Business & Law at ECU in Perth from 2012 to 2015; and
• Professor and Director of Research at Audencia Business School, Nantes, one of France’s leading triple accredited grandes ecoles from 2008 to 2011 (top 30 European business school, FT rankings 2025).
• Member of the international research advisory board of EADA Business School in Barcelona from 2009 until 2015 (top 30 European business school, FT rankings 2025).
• Member of external review panels of several Schools in Australia including UNSW, Griffith University, Curtin University, and the University of Wollongong (since 2018). 

Prior to moving to France he worked for 12 years in the Business School at the University of Sydney (1996 to 2007). During this time he was, inter alia, co-convenor of the Business and Professional Ethics Group (BPEG), and postgraduate coursework co-ordinator for his Department. Grant has enjoyed a range of visiting positions including at the Copenhagen Business School, Texas A&M University, Henley Business School, University of Reading (Malaysia), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), East China Normal University (ECNU) and Victoria University of Wellington. In May 2025, he was an Erasmus+ funded scholar at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. He has also taught CSR as an adjunct professor in Singapore for the University of Southampton. Prior to gaining his educational qualifications from the Universities of Canterbury, Otago and Sydney, he began his career in the meat export industry in New Zealand (audit and procurement) before working in local government.