Malcolm Rimmer is an academic, researcher and writer in the fields of management, industrial relations and human resources. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Oxford University, and an MA from Warwick University, UK. He was a member of the Department of Industrial Relations at Sydney University before working at the Australian Graduate School of Management, University of New South Wales in 1983. Between 1989 and 1994 he was Professor and Director of the National Key Centre in Industrial Relations at Monash University. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Professor of Human Resource Management at Deakin University. Rimmer was appointed Head of the School of Business at La Trobe University in April 2005.