Professor Eddie, FCPA, is an international expert in environmental, sustainability and corporate governance (ESG), financial technology, financial analytics, venture capital and private equity finance, organizational leadership, and corporate accounting.  His research is focused on the development and application of financial innovations via startup business enterprises and their application in market, community and city ecosystems.  Contemporary research projects include the application of the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (UN SDGs) by corporations, governments, and not-for-profit organizations.

Professor Eddie has a distinguished record of service to a range of organizations as a board member, audit committee member and consultant.  He is currently a member of the project team for the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) developing resilience scorecards for small island nation states and communities. He served as a board member of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee to the Australian Federal Treasurer, a member of the Audit Committee of the Corporations and Markets Advisory Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Gold Coast Surf Industry Taskforce and Gold Coast Surf City Incorporated, a board member of the Australian National Business Schools consortium, a consultant to Grant Thornton International Vietnam, the State Securities Commission of Vietnam, the Asia Development Bank and the Securities Institute of Australia.