Professor Innes is a social psychologist whose current interests include the structure and measurement of political beliefs and attitudes, especially environmental and ecological beliefs, attitude change and persuasion, and contemporary studies of the means of creation of cognitive dissonance and its consequences and in the study of the correlates of creative thinking and its stimulation. He also has a strong interest in the intellectual and social determinants of the development of social psychology as an academic and applied discipline. He is a highly experienced manager of complex, large organizations and has been responsible for organizational analysis, strategic planning, change management and innovation. He has experience in accreditation and curriculum development, training professionals and examination of quality assurance of expert programs and the evaluation of multicultural groups. Professor Innes served recently as inaugural Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Murdoch University International Study Center in the United Arab Emirates, establishing a multicultural higher education facility in Dubai. He is currently Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia and a Professor at the Australian College of Applied Psychology, Sydney.