Dr Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor at the Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is a Fellow of Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

She is a panel member of the United Nations Environment Programme-International Sciences Council (UNEP-ISC), foresight Expert Panel (2023-2024): https://www.unep.org/ocs/foresight-expert-panel. She is a member of the Research Review Group of International Labour Organization (2024-). She has been serving on the Committee of the Academic Journal Guide of Chartered Association of Business Schools (UK) since 2017, which produced the ABS list and its reviews and updates. She also serves on the committee of Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2026.

Fang is ranked Highly Ranked Scholar by ScholarGPS in May 2026 as: No. 1 highly ranked scholar (prior 5 years) in the human resource management specialty, and No 8 (life time).  ScholarGPS: https://scholargps.com/?e_ref=ff8d746ac3e5a7e94e31 provides rankings overall (in all Fields), in 14 broad Fields (such as Medicine, Engineering, or Humanities), in 177 Disciplines (such as Surgery, Computer Science, or History), and in over 350,000 Specialties (such as Cancer, Artificial Intelligence, or Ethics).

Fang was ranked No.716 in the world and No.37 in Australia in the 2023 ‘Best Business and Management Scientists’ ranking by Research.com (https://research.com/scientists-rankings/business-and-management). According to Research.com, ‘The 3rd edition of Research.com ranking of the best researchers in the discipline of Business and Management is based on data combined from a wide range of data sources including OpenAlex and CrossRef. The bibliometric data for estimating the citation-based metrics were collected on 21-11-2023. Position in the ranking is based on a scholar’s D-index (Discipline H-index), which takes into account only papers and citation data for an examined discipline’.

Fang was ranked as one of the top 2% scientists in the world in research citation impact in the ranking by Ioannidis, John P.A. (2025), “August 2025 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Elsevier Data Repository, DOI: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.8.

Fang was ranked No.14 of business and management scholars in the world whose first publication was in 2000-current in the 2022 Harzing list that is based on the top 2% scientists in the world list: https://harzing.com/blog/2022/11/top-50-academics-in-business-management-worldwide-new-2022-ranking. 

Prior to joining Monash University, Dr Cooke was a full professor at Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester (since 2005) in the United Kingdom. She has also held positions at RMIT (Deputy Head of School of Management), Melbourne and Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.

Fang is the author of HRM, Work and Employment in China (Routledge, 2005), Competition, Strategy and Management in China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), and Human Resource Management in China: New Trends and Practices (Routledge, 2012). She is a co-author (with Nankervis, Chatterjee and Warner) of New Horizons of Human Resource Management: Models from China and India (Routledge, 2013), and is also the author/co-author of more than 180 academic journal articles and over 80 book chapters. Her work has been published in Research Policy, Human Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of World Business, Work, Employment and Society, British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Industrial Relations, International Journal of Management Review, Human Resource Management Review, The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Research, Management and Organizational Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, New Technology, Work and Employment, and so forth.  

Fang was one of the two Inaugural Australian National Business School Fellows (2008), and a Distinguished Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study (2008) at La Trobe University. She received the 2018 Dean's Award for PRME Research Excellence and the 2011 Dean's Award for Research Excellence, Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University. She was also a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Scheme) Visiting Professor, Georg-August-Universität Goettingen, Germany (2016). 

Fang's research interests are in the area of employment relations, gender studies, diversity management, strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, outsourcing, Chinese multinational firms, Chinese migrants, HRM in the banking sector, care sector, and construction sector, and the impact of technological change, AI, digitalisation and data analytics on skill, employment and the nature of work. 

Fang has been involved in more than 30 externally funded projects, leading many of them. Funding bodies include, for example, International Labour Organization; Engineering and Physical Science Research Council, UK; Department for International Development, UK; Department of Health, UK; European Social Fund, European Union; National Natural Science Foundation of China; Australian Research Council; and Institute for Safety, Compensation and Recovery Research, Australia. Fang is currently involved in the project: ‘Digital Futures at Work Research Centre’ (£7.9 million full costing, 2020-2025; a second stage of the Centre will take place in 2025-2029, over 8 million Pound full-costing), funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK: https://digit-research.org/.

Fang was the Co-Leader (2019-2024) of the Energy Leadership Theme of Woodside Monash Energy Partnership: https://www.monash.edu/woodside/energy-partnership