Symposium Co-chair/Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ananda Kumar Palaniappan

Professor Dr Ananda Kumar Palaniappan was formerly an Educational Psychologist at the Faculty of Education, University of Malaya. He currently teaches at Tunku Abdul Rahman University of Management and Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. He specializes in Creative & Innovative Thinking, Organizational Creativity and Creative Problem-Solving. Dr. Ananda also lectures in Research Methods and Statistics and has been conducting SPSS and AMOS workshops since 1995 for both academic and non-academic researchers in both public and private organizations. He has also conducted workshops and presented papers on Creativity, Organizational Creativity, and Creative Problem Solving for numerous groups including managers, magistrates, legal officers, educational administrators, school principals, teachers and students in Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Spain, UK and the United States of America. He has been consulted on projects by many agencies including the Malaysian Ministry of Education and private research institutions. He is presently involved in several research projects on Creativity, Creative Personality Characteristics, Creative Management and Organizational Behavior. He has published internationally on creativity and on the validation of several instruments measuring Creative Teaching, Creative Management and Creative Personality Characteristics. He has published in many international journals including Perceptual and Motor Skills and Journal of Psychology. Dr. Ananda Kumar Palaniappan is a member of American Psychological Association (APA), American Creativity Association (ACA) and the International Association of Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP).