Faculty staff profile

Professor John Onto is a Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Business School.

He joined MBS in early 1995 following his return from the United States, where he was for eight years a Distinguished Professor in Management on the faculty of the business school at Georgetown University. During his time at Georgetown, John was also Associate Dean of Graduate Business Programs for three years.

For three years as the Associate Dean of the EMBA program at MBA, John led the team which redesigned and successfully launched the EMBA program. 

John has designed and led programs in international business and negotiations in Australia, the USA, Singapore, Belgium, France, Germany, New Zealand, Trinidad and Mexico.

In 1995, he was BP Visiting Professor of International Management at UFSIA in Antwerp, Belgium. In 2000, he was a visiting professor at Freiberg University in Germany for three months.

In 2005, he was a visiting professor in negotiations at the Singapore campus of INSEAD and is returning there again in May-June 2006.

Formal qualifications include the BCom, MBA (Melbourne University) and PhD (Arizona State). 

At Melbourne Business School, John teaches the MBA subject Negotiations - Process and Strategy and Industry Studies in Asia. He is also active in executive development and consults to a range of corporations in the field of negotiations.