Prof. Dodi W. Irawanto is a professor in the Department of Management at Brawijaya University, serving since 2001. From 2018 to present, he has served as Secretary of the Directorate of Research and Community Services. Previously, from 2006 to 2008, he served as Chief of the Indonesian Association of Master Management Program. During 2010–2011, he was a visiting associate professor at the IPU Tertiary Institute, New Zealand, and in 2018, he was a visiting professor at Yuan Ze University in Taiwan. In 2024, he will be a visiting professor at Universiti Technology MARA Kedah, Malaysia.

Prof. Irawanto holds a B.Economics from Brawijaya University (1999) and an M.Com. from Wollongong University, Australia. He completed his Ph.D. in cross-cultural leadership at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, in 2010.

His research interests span human resources management and cross-cultural leadership, with significant work in HRM and organizational behaviour. In the last five years, he has actively conducted research and community service in the area of community tourism. He has published over 50 articles in reputable journals and authored three books, published both nationally and internationally.

Recently, Prof. Irawanto has focused on streamlining research into commercialization. His leadership research has resulted in the innovation of a real-time web-based leadership assessment used by many companies in Indonesia. This led to the creation of his start-up digital company, LocalLead.id.

Prof. Irawanto currently serves as Editor in Chief of the Asia-Pacific Management and Business Application Journal, a Sinta-2 Indonesian National Accredited Journal since 2013. He is also an editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review Journal, a SSCI and Scopus-indexed journal published by Taylor and Francis. In the past five years, he has been a keynote speaker at both national seminars and international conferences.

Among his prestigious awards, he has won the Marry Mallon HR Award from New Zealand and has been listed among the top five scientists in social sciences at Brawijaya University, along with many other accolades.