Dr Colin Drake
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- is notAvailable for media queries
- is notAvailable to supervise research students at VU
Areas of expertise
- Event management
- Tourism
- Marketing communications
- Corporate social responsibility
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About
Colin Drake is a senior lecturer within the Victoria University Business School.
Colin joined VU in 2010 and is a teaching and research academic, specialising in tourism and event management and marketing. Currently he chairs the Event Management discipline in the Bachelor of Business program and supervises Honours, Master and PhD students. Colin has taught in Germany, Malaysia and the UK and was also the Director for the Business School’s MBA program (2015-2020).
He is a Churchill Fellow, a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and was awarded the Wallmans Lawyers MBA prize for E-Business in 2005 from the University of Adelaide.
Prior to entering academe, Colin spent 25 years in the corporate sector as well as establishing a successful event management company. Colin has held a range of management and marketing roles in the events, aviation, tourism and hospitality sectors in Australia, UK and New Zealand and has served on tourism and commercial boards.