Robert Spillane is a Professor and past Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
He has degrees in clinical and industrial psychology and worked as a psychotherapist for more than 25 years.
He has taught at the London Business School, the ABIN Institute in Frankfurt, Germany, in Singapore and Hong Kong and several Australian universities and he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Working Life in Stockholm, Sweden.
From 2003 to 2011 he delivered a series of widely acclaimed lectures on philosophy and psychology at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
He has written numerous journal articles and several books on philosophy, psychology and management. His recent books include: 'Questionable Behaviour: Psychology's Undermining of Personal Responsibility', 'The Rise of Psychomanagement in Australia', 'Personality & Performance' (with John Martin) and 'The Management Contradictionary' (with B. & R. Marks).
In 2006 he received the international Thomas S. Szasz Award from the Center for Independent Thought in New York for his professional contributions to the cause of human liberty.
