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Elizabeth Christopher is an academic freelance, most recently for Charles Sturt University, NSW, Australia. Previously she was an Adjunct Professor at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. She is a cross cultural specialist with academic interests in international management, managing cultural diversity, communication across cultures; and online teaching and learning. A former research fellow of the East-West Center, Honolulu, Elizabeth is also a reviewer for book and journal proposals, and a Chartered Fellow of the Australian Human Resource Institute (AHRI). Her awards include the Macquarie University (Sydney) LEAD 2010 award for research on the management of cultural differences in learning and teaching, and the Chartered Institute of Management (UK) 2014 Management Book of the Year Award. Her most recent publications include Communication across Cultures (Palgrave Macmillan, UK, 2012)