Dr Wanniwat Pansuwong

Wanniwat joins UniSA Business as Lecturer: Entrepreneurship in the Innovation and Entrepreneuship discipline. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship (AACSB), Swinburne University of Technology, Australia and MA in International Business and Management from Bradford School of Management (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), University of Bradford, UK (and EM Lyon Business School, France). 

Wanni has substantial experience in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, curriculum development, industry-integrated course design and leading academic teams to high-quality teaching. He also has credible professional experience that revolves around business incubation and acceleration, venture start-ups, research and consultancies. This has eventually brought him to being recognised with the UniSA Business Staff Teaching Excellence Award in 2024. 

Before joining UniSA Business, Wanni was Lecturer (Entrepreneurship) at Thammasat Business School (AACSB, EQUIS, AMBA), one of the three 'triple-crown' business schools in ASEAN. Prior to Thammasat, he also held a position of Lecturer (Entrepreneurship) and Lead: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Digital Transformation Cluster at RMIT University Australia (Vietnam Campus).

Wanni is also active in research. His publications appear in ABDC's A-ranked and Scimago Q1 journals. The recent ones appear in the Handbook of Tourism Entrepreneurship with other reputable scholars in the field. His last research project also secured AUD 82,000 funded by the National Innovation Agency (NIA) Thailand. In addition, his PhD student in an Australian university, whom he recently supervised has passed at the top 5% of all theses submitted in the past three years.  

His research interests are entrepreneurship, innovation and business model; tourism entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship in Asia; entrepreneurship and strategy for SMEs; and quantitative analyses. 

Currently, Wanni leads Entrepreneurship for Social and Market Impact, Creativity and Innovation, and Entrepreneurship and Strategy in Asia for undergraduate programs, as well as coordinates and teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation for postgraduate programs at UniSA Business.

Qualifications

• Doctor of Philosophy Swinburne University of Technology

• Master of Arts University of Bradford

• Bachelor of Economics Chiang Mai University