Prof. Raghu Sundaram

Raghu Sundaram is Senior Vice Chancellor and Chief Global Officer at New York University (NYU), Dean Emeritus, and Edward I. Altman Professor of Credit and Debt Markets at NYU Stern School of Business. He served as Dean of NYU Stern from 2018 to 2024, leading major initiatives in academic innovation, scholarships, entrepreneurship, technology, and global expansion. A distinguished scholar in finance and economics, his research spans corporate finance, derivatives, credit risk, and game theory, with publications in leading academic journals and two authored books. He is also the recipient of NYU Stern’s inaugural Distinguished Teaching Award. Prior to joining NYU in 1996, he was on the faculty of the University of Rochester. He holds an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Madras, and an MA and PhD in Economics from Cornell University.

Mr. Prabhjeet Singh

Prabhjeet Singh is Managing Director, India, at OpenAI, where he focuses on building AI for India. He previously served as President, India & South Asia, at Uber, leading the company’s growth, localisation and operations across the region. Before Uber, he was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, advising private- and public-sector organisations across India and Southeast Asia, with a focus on financial services and consumer technology. He began his career as a Senior Analyst at Lehman Brothers in London.

He holds an MBA in General Management from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a B.Tech in Electronics & Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. His honours include being named to the Economic Times 40 Under Forty, selection as an Aditya Birla Scholar, and Young Alumni Achiever Awards from IIM Ahmedabad and IIT Kharagpur.

Mr. Raghav Gupta

Raghav Gupta is the Head of Education for India and Asia Pacific at OpenAI, where he works with educational institutions, governments, and ed-tech companies to expand AI access and literacy across the region. His work focuses on helping students and educators use AI to learn, create, and prepare for the future.

Before OpenAI, Raghav spent eight years at Coursera as Managing Director for India and Asia Pacific, building the regional business from the ground up. He previously launched BlaBlaCar in India and worked as a management consultant with Booz & Company. Raghav holds an MBA from INSEAD, a post-graduate diploma from NIFT New Delhi, and a BTech from Pune University.

Prof. Ashok Banerjee

Prof. Ashok Banerjee, Director of IIM Udaipur, is a Chartered Accountant and holds an M.Com. Degree from Calcutta University and a Ph.D. from Rajasthan University. Prof Banerjee is a seasoned academician with vast experience as a senior professor in the Finance and Accounting area. His research interests are in the areas of high-frequency finance, Fintech, and sentiment analysis. He was the Dean of New Initiatives and External Relations at IIM Calcutta from 2012 to 2015. During his stint as Dean, Prof Banerjee was credited with setting up an incubator at IIM Calcutta called IIM Calcutta Innovation Park, which the Department of Science & Technology recognises as a Technology Business Incubator. Prof. Banerjee was the founder-coordinator of the Financial Research and Trading Laboratory of IIM Calcutta. He was instrumental in starting the International Finance Conference in 2009 at IIM Calcutta. The conference is now rechristened as the India Finance Conference and is organised jointly by IIM Calcutta, IIM Bangalore and IIM Ahmedabad.

Before joining IIM Calcutta, he was a professor at IIM Lucknow from 2000 to 2004.

He also serves as an independent director on the Boards of companies in the financial and technology sectors.

Since taking charge as Director of the Indian Institute of Management Udaipur (IIM Udaipur) on August 1, 2022, Ashok Banerjee has guided the institute through strategic growth anchored in research excellence, sustainability, and institutional innovation. Drawing on his deep academic and leadership credentials, he has driven the launch of the JM Financial Centre for Financial Research, amplifying IIM Udaipur’s footprint in financial markets, fintech and data-driven scholarship; and the establishment of the IIMU Behavioural Lab, Jaipur, broadening the institute’s research boundary into decision-science and behavioural inquiry. Under his leadership, the institute also pioneered its infrastructure expansion under a public-private-partnership (PPP) model, becoming the first among India’s IIMs to adopt the DBFOT framework for campus development—transforming vision into a scalable built environment. In a bold move aligned with the ethos of inclusion and access, the institute under his stewardship announced the launch of a four-year online bilingual Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) programme, the first of its kind among India’s IIMs. Designed to break the language barrier, this programme offers students the option of instruction in both Hindi and English, features flexible multi-exit options and mobile-/low-bandwidth-friendly delivery, thereby opening up elite management education to first-generation learners, Hindi-medium students and underserved communities.

Dr. Bhimraya Metri

Director, Indian Institute of Management Nagpur
Chairman, Council for Logistics Infrastructure and Project Management (CLIP)
Chairman, IIMN Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (InFED)
Chairman, Atal Innovation Centre (AIC), INFED, IIM Nagpur
Plot No. 1, Sector 20, MIHAN, Nagpur – 441108, Maharashtra, India
Gmail: metriba@gmail.com Website: https://www.iimnagpur.ac.in/

Bhimaraya Metri, Director, IIM Nagpur is a distinguished academician, renowned teacher, researcher and an astute administrator. A recognized premier institution builder in management education with end-to-end expertise in the institutional lifecycle. He possesses the rare distinction of mastering both worlds: pioneering state-of-the-art greenfield campuses-including IIM Tiruchirappalli, IIM Nagpur, and the SSBS (Strathclyde University) complemented by a proven track record in executing complex brownfield modernization strategies at premier institutions like MDI Gurgaon, IMI New Delhi and L&T Institute of Project Management apart from leading research programmes at BITS Pilani,

A renowned expert in the area of Project Management & Infrastructure, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management, he has numerous research papers and books to his credit apart from being on the editorial advisory boards of several national and international journals.

Currently, Dr. Metri is the Visitor Nominee to IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Jodhpur and IIM Jammu. He is also nominee of Ministry of Education, Govt of India on the Board of Governors of NIBM Pune; member of the Governing Board of IUC-TE, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; member of the Governing Board, MARVEL, Govt of Maharashtra; member, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Governing Council, New Delhi (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Govt. of India); Trustee of Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM) Mysore and Chancellor’s Nominee on Academic Council, Gondwana University. Dr. Metri is also member of Board of Governors of CMDR Dharwad (supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education, Government of India and Government of Karnataka); MGIRI (Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialisation) Wardha (Ministry of MSME); IIP (Indian Institute of Packaging) Mumbai (Ministry of Commerce); SDMIMD Mysore; JKLU Jaipur, AIMA New Delhi; and MEPSC, New Delhi.

Dr. Metri also serves as Chairman of the Human Resources Management and Innovation Sectional Committee and the Management and Systems Division Council (MSDC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), New Delhi. He is Chairman of the AIMA Board of Studies, New Delhi, an Independent Director of the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC), and a member of the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), New Delhi; the Academic Advisory Board of L&T EduTech, Chennai; and the International Advisory Council of Chanakya University, Bengaluru. At IIM Nagpur, he chairs the Council for Logistics Infrastructure and Project Management (CLIP), the IIM Nagpur Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (InFED), and the Atal Innovation Centre (AIC), InFED, IIM Nagpur.

Dr Metri served as a member of Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU), a member of the expert committee for establishment of Higher Education Commission of India to carry out detailed mapping of existing manpower and functions performed by UGC, AICTE, NCTE etc. Chairman, WG-DEB, UGC, New Delhi; Honorary Advisor to TNeGA, Ministry of IT, Govt of Tamil Nadu; a member of the Appeals Committee of NAAC, Bengaluru; Member- National Management Committee, PMA, India, Member, Academic council, NIMSME, Hyderabad. He also worked as Visitor’s nominee & convener/member of the committee constituted for the selection of Vice Chancellor’s of Central Universities, other Central Govt. Universities and state universities. He served as Chairman, All India Board of Management Studies (AICTE); On the panel of experts for mentoring the Institutes of Eminence (IoE). He has also served as a Chairman/member of several committees of AICTE, AICTE Executive Committee , UGC, NBA, UKIERI, AIU, IGNOU, IIM Kozhikode Society, Governing Council of SACON Coimbatore under the MoEFCC, Govt. of India; UERC Uttarakhand; Principal Technical Agency (PTA) for PMGSY projects for Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan; IIIC, Govt. of Kerala; Board of Governors of IIM Mumbai (formerly NITIE Mumbai), SVVV Indore, NICMAR University Pune; member board of management Symbiosis International University, Pune; member of the committee for establishment of Online University, Govt. of Maharashtra; Member, Expert Group constituted by MoE for NEP-2020 and has also served on the board of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Houston, Texas, USA.

Dr. Metri was leader of the three Indian delegations to Tokyo (Japan), Bali (Indonesia) for ISO/ TC 260 and to Amersfoort, Netherlands for ISO/ TC 251, for development of international standards. He was the chairman of the International Academic Review Committee for Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman; Foreign expert for HEQAAC (UGC), Nepal; Member, ABMC Accreditation Panel, Osaka, Japan; Member, Eurasia-Pacific Uninet (EPU). Dr. Metri was the first Indian elected as the Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He was the Chief Guest for the 55th Convocation of Shivaji University, 3rd convocation of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University; Anna University and many other engineering and management
institutions in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He was also invited as a key Note speaker at Pan-African PMC, Cameroon and taught GMP to Mauritian Business Leaders as a visiting faculty of ESSEC Business School Paris.

Dr. Metri has conducted leadership development programmes for more than 200 Vice-Chancellors from Central, State, and Private Universities across India. He has also conducted capacity-building programmes for over 1,000 Directors, Deans, Principals, and Heads of Departments (HODs) from leading engineering institutions, including the NITs, under the World Bank-assisted MHRD-TEQIP initiative to enhance the quality of technical education in the country.

Dr. Metri is deeply involved with executive education at board, senior and middle management levels including international training with a wide range of organizations including leading organizations of government, public sector (Maharatna & Navaratna companies), private sector and foreign government bodies. He has conducted several board level and top management programs for the leading public sector organizations such as NLCIL, NUPPL, ONGC, HPCL, NRPC (CMD/ Dy CMD /IAS Officers/CEs), etc. He has trained senior executives of several leading organizations including CIL, WCL, NTPC, NHPC, PGCIL, BHEL, HCL, RBI, IOCL, CPCL, ECIL, EIL, WAPCOS, NEEPCO, SJVNL, PSEB, BEL, ATAL, NAAC, NFLP, JNVs, Sona Koyo, Fortis, Jindal Stainless Steel Ltd, PNB, CIDC, ABB, L&T, Nestle, Eli Lilly, EXL, Nova Nordisk, Lupin, Adani Group, Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), BIS, Epiroc, MOIL, STPI, Hindustan Copper Ltd, Hindustan Zinc, Sikkim Govt. Officers, Aditya Birla Group DCM Shriram, Cairn Energy, Public Enterprise, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, DOAE (Department of Atomic Energy) Officers, Army Officers, ITEC Officers (Ministry of External Affairs) from 30 plus countries, New Holland Fiat and Ministry of health & family welfare.

Dr. Metri has provided consultancy to various premier organizations such as L&T, Bosch, Titan, FDCM, NTPC, Army Ordinance Corps (AOC) Ministry of Defense, ICDDR Dhaka (Bangladesh), Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE), Nagpur District Strategic Plan, Department of disaster management, relief & rehabilitation, Govt. of Maharashtra etc. He has also contributed to the World Bank-assisted DAKSH Project of the Government of Maharashtra. His ongoing consultancy assignments include the strategic planning of the Nashik Kumbh Mela (2027) and the Ujjain Kumbh Mela (2028).

Globally exposed and widely travelled across four continents and 29 countries visiting B-schools and universities for executive education and internationalization initiatives. Dr. Metri has led a successful national and international Accreditation & Re-accreditation programs led a Curriculum Review Committee that undertook a major overhaul of the PGDM programs. He has been instrumental in enhancement of physical and intellectual infrastructure and increased the strength of PGDM programs for successfully positioning MDI Gurgaon, IMI Delhi, IIM Tiruchirappalli and IIM Nagpur amongst the leading business schools of the country.

For such illustrious contributions to the society, he has been bestowed with several prestigious awards and recognitions. Dr. Metri received the prestigious Ravi J Matthai National Fellow Award also he is the first serving IIM Director to receive the country’s prestigious AIMA-Kewal Nohria Award for Academic Leadership in Management Education. Dr. Metri also received the Distinguished Services Award by Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute, Dr. P. N. Singh Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership (2021), Top Director Award by CSR; Prerana Purshkar – Distinguished Alumnus Award, and “Top Rankers Excellence Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership”

Dr. Metri received his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai. Currently, he is the President of ISDSI Global and member of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) USA.

Mr. S. Ramann

Mr S. Ramann assumed charge as Chairperson, Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA) on 20th June, 2025.

Mr. Ramann served as an officer of the Indian Audit & Accounts Service (IA&AS) from the 1991 batch. Prior to joining PFRDA, he served as the Deputy Comptroller & Auditor General and Chief Technology Officer in the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

He has previously held several leadership positions, including Chairman and Managing Director of the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Managing Director of NeSL – Information Utility, Principal Accountant General of the State of Jharkhand; Chief General Manager (CGM) and then as Executive Director at the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) during the period 2006 to 2013.

Mr. Ramann holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics followed by an MBA from the University of Delhi. Amongst his professional and academic qualifications are an M.Sc. in Financial Regulation from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an LLB, Chief Digital Officer certification from the Indian School of Business, the Certified Internal Auditor credential from the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), Florida, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Securities Law.

Dr. Ashish Joshi

Dr. Ashish Joshi is the Dean and Distinguished University Professor of the University of Memphis School of Public Health. He is an inspirational speaker, innovator, entrepreneur, educator, researcher, administrator, mentor and a public health diplomat. He is a leading international authority in Public Health Innovation, a population health informatics researcher, public health diplomacy and applied health resilience frameworks. He is also the author of the first textbook “Population Health Informatics: Driving Evidence-based solutions into practice”. and has developed one of the first models of public health education in high schools.

Dr. Joshi is founder of the public health diplomacy lab bringing together globally a wide range of stakeholders advancing good health and well-being of all. He chairs the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH) Technology and Public Health Advisory Group, was the Chair of the ASPPH Responsible and Ethical use of AI in the Public Health Taskforce and is a member of the ASPPH Board. He is a Global architect of the internationally recognized SMAART™ Model that aims to address social, economic and health issues towards building sustainable cities and communities.

Dr. Joshi has secured nearly $25 million in research grants and contracts and published more than 150 research papers in high quality peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Joshi’s commitment to public health has been well recognized through several awards including CUNY SPH Legacy Award and the Distinguished Service Award by NYC Test and Trace Corps program for his extraordinary COVID-19 work in New York City and Memphis City Council.

Dr. Joshi has established various partnerships and collaborations with academic institutions, non-governmental organizations and public health associations across Southeast Asia, Asia Pacific, Africa, Europe, Middle East, Central Asia and Latin and South America. Dr. Joshi has widely travelled to more than 30 countries and brings a breadth of expertise through his lived public health experience. 

Prof. Ashish Verma

Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Verma is the Convenor of “IISc Sustainable Transportation Lab. (IST Lab)”. He is Ph.D. from IIT Bombay and is currently serving as a Professor of Transportation Systems Engg. at Dept. of Civil Engg, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India. His research interests are in; sustainable transportation planning & policy, transport & Livability/Quality of Life (QoL) etc. He has authored more than 300 research publications, in the area of transportation systems engineering. He also has a patent and a software copyright to his credit. He is the founding Editor-in Chief (EiC) of the journal “Sustainable Transport and Livability” published by T&F. He is the Founding President of Transportation Research Group of India (TRG) and International Group on Sustainable Transport and Livability (IGSTL). He is also currently the elected Vice-President of Institute of Urban Transport, India.

Prof. Manjul Gupta

Doctoral Director, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics,
Ryder MIS Eminent Scholar Endowed Chair,
Professor, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics, Florida International University, USA

Dr. Manjul Gupta is the Ryder MIS Eminent Scholar and Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Florida International University. He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from Iowa State University. Dr. Gupta also serves as the Director of Doctoral Programs in Information Systems and Business Analytics department.

He is internationally recognized for his research on the role of national and organizational culture in technology-driven phenomena, including artificial intelligence and big data analytics. His research has appeared in leading journals, including MIS Quarterly (MISQ), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Production and Operations Management (POM), Health Affairs, Information & Management, and the Journal of Business Research. His work on artificial intelligence and big data analytics, particularly his highly cited Big Data Analytics Capability (BDAC) framework, has had significant influence on research in these areas.

Dr. Gupta serves in Associate Editor roles at leading business journals, including the Journal of Business Research and Information & Management. Most recently, he authored a book titled “PQ-7: You Against Yourself,” which introduces a seven-dimensional framework for understanding human growth through the context of sports.

Prof. Ted Feichin TSCHANG

Session:

Generative AI and human-like intelligence: What’s human enough, and what’s not?

The talk will discuss a variety of human-like characteristics of large language models (AI for short), and how AI firms, computer scientists, and humans at work all hold different views of AI’s capabilities, and why. Some implications for work and theory, and selected trends in AI, will be discussed.

Prof. Mikko Rönkkö

Mikko Rönkkö is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at Jyväskylä University School of Business and Economics (JSBE) and a Docent at Aalto University School of Science in the field of statistical methods in management research, where he also completed his doctorate. He is recognized as one of the leading quantitative research experts in management, with research interests spanning growth entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial software companies, and quantitative research methods in management research. He is currently the most cited professor in business studies at JSBE according to ISI Web of Science data, and ranks as the highest impact researcher at JSBE in the Stanford/Elsevier’s Top 2% Scientist Rankings.

Dr. Rönkkö serves as an Associate Editor for *Organizational Research Methods* and is on the editorial board of *Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice*. Previously, he served as department editor in the *Journal of Operations Management*, handling methodological articles. His excellence in reviewing has been recognized through multiple awards, including the Distinguished Service Award from the Journal of Operations Management.

He maintains an influential research methods-focused YouTube channel with over 10,000 subscribers and more than 1 million views at (https://www.youtube.com/mronkko), providing extensive digital learning materials including over 300 professional-quality video lectures.

In addition to his academic career, Dr. Rönkkö has significant entrepreneurial experience, having founded three companies. Most notably, he founded aTalent Recruiting, which now has consolidated revenues in the €5-10M class and continues to fulfill its social mission of connecting companies with the right talent.

Dr. Sourav Bhattacharya

Dr. Sourav Bhattacharya is currently the Generative AI Research Director at NatWest Group, UK with over a decade of experience at the intersection of artificial intelligence research, product development, and technology leadership.

Before joining NatWest Group, he was the Research Director and Head of on-device AI at Samsung AI Centre, Cambridge, where he worked on developing and deploying AI technologies that reached millions of Samsung smartphone users. His work has covered a wide range of areas, including generative AI, automatic speech recognition, audio intelligence, on-device AI, and efficient machine learning systems.

Over the years, Dr. Bhattacharya has authored more than 90 scientific publications and technical articles and has contributed actively to the research community through service on the Technical Program Committees of several leading international conferences. He also has a number of granted and pending patents to his credit. Earlier in his career, he worked as a Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs.

Dr. Bhattacharya combines strong research expertise with a practical approach to building AI systems that can be deployed at scale. Alongside his technical contributions, he has extensive experience in leading and managing research teams and in translating cutting-edge AI research into real-world products and applications.

Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb

Prof. Kalyanmoy Deb is a University Distinguished Professor and Koenig Endowed Chair Professor at Michigan State University. He is also the Director of the Computational Optimization and Innovation Laboratory at Michigan State University. Previously, he served as a Professor at IIT Kanpur, where he established the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory. He holds a PhD in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Alabama and a BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur.

Prof. Deb is internationally recognized for developing computational methods to address complex decision problems involving multiple competing objectives. His NSGA-II and NSGA-III algorithms are now widely used across engineering, machine learning and operations research worldwide. His research demonstrates how rigorous methodological advances can be translated into practical tools for engineering design and decision-making across disciplines.

Prof. Deb has published 284 journal papers and 371 conference papers, supervised 36 PhD students, and has delivered 134 keynote and plenary lectures. His major honours include the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Engineering Sciences, the Infosys Prize, the TWAS Prize in Engineering Sciences, the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award, and the Clarivate Analytics Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher every year from 2017 to 2025 and recognized by ScholarGPS in 2025 as a Highly Ranked Scholar–Lifetime, placing him among the top 0.05% of researchers worldwide across all fields of scholarly endeavour.

Shailendra Pratap Jain

Shailendra Pratap Jain (Shelly) is Bret Wheat Endowed Professor of Marketing and International Business at the Foster School of Business, University of Washington, Seattle. He has earlier held faculty positions at Indiana University and University of Rochester, and visiting faculty positions at Cornell University, Indian School of Business, IIM Ahmedabad, Cambridge University, and University of Western Ontario. Shelly’s research interests include brand strategy, psychological segmentation, consumer addictions, advertising, the psychology of COVID, and consumer emotions. His work has appeared in leading journals like Journal of Consumer Research (JCR), Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology (JCP), Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science (JAMS), and International Journal of Research in Marketing (IJRM). He has been an Associate/Area Editor with IJRM and is currently an AE with JMR, JCP, Decision Science, and JAMS. Shelly has co-edited a volume of the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research on Addiction and Maladaptive Consumption and a special issue of JAMS on scarcity. He was the Chair of the Marketing Department at Foster School (2012-16) and has won over 25 teaching awards during his career. Shelly has conducted executive education programs for several companies in Asia, Europe, and the US. Shelly has a chemical engineering undergraduate degree from BITS Pilani, an MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and an M. Phil. and a Ph.D. in Marketing from New York University. Prior to moving to the US to do his PhD, he worked for United Breweries, FCB Ulka, and Mudra Communications. Shelly believes in and follows humanistic principles of respecting and upholding dignity of all things animate and inanimate. His book (co-author Professor Shalini Sarin Jain) Managing Brand Transgressions: 8 Principles to Transform Your Brand was published in 2024 and was a runner up for 2 book publishing awards.

William Schulze

Bill Schulze (Ph.D., U of Colorado) is a David Eccles Professor in the Entrepreneurship and Strategy Department at the University of Utah. His research focuses on the intersection of strategy, entrepreneurship, and organization theory, with particular emphasis on family firms. His work is published in leading academic and practitioner journals, including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Long Range Planning, and The Harvard Business Review. In addition to Journal of Management Studies, he is an associate editor for Journal of Management Science Reports. He was also an associate editor for Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Management.

Beatrice D’Ippolito

Beatrice D’Ippolito is Professor of Strategic Management and Innovation at the University of York (UK) and holds a visiting position at The University of Tokyo Institute for Future Initiatives. Her research focuses on the emergence and development of mechanisms of knowledge creation and diffusion that connect firm dynamics with industry evolution, design as a driver for innovation, inter-organizational collaborations as vehicles to knowledge creation, and the strategic opportunities and challenges attached to the advent of digital technologies. Professor D’Ippolito sits in the Editorial Advisory Board of Long Range Planning, Research Policy, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and Industry and Innovation and serves as Associate Editor at the Journal of Management Studies.

Hannes Leroy

As Academic Director of the Erasmus Center of Leadership, Hannes helps to oversee the quality of leadership development at different levels in Erasmus University (undergraduate, graduate, post-graduate, and executive education). Furthermore, as steward of the League of Leadership initiative he helps to oversee an international consortium of top business schools across the world with the mission of collectively enhancing quality standards of leadership development. Aligned with these efforts, Hannes has published numerous studies on leadership and its development in top journals, has taught a wide variety of leadership classes and is principal coordinator of various leadership development curricula.

Prof. Yasin Rofcanin

Professor of Organisational Behaviour and HRM

School of Management,

University of Bath,

United Kingdom

Yasin Rofcanin was born and educated in Istanbul, completing his undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Boğaziçi University before earning his PhD from Warwick Business School at the University of Warwick, UK. He is currently Professor of Organizational Psychology and Human Resource Management at the University of Bath School of Management and Co-Director of the University’s Future of Work Research Centre.

Professor Rofcanin is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) Academic Journal Guide, contributing to the evaluation and development of research quality within the Organizational Psychology field. He has held Associate Editor roles across several leading journals spanning management (i.e., Human Relations) organizational psychology (i.e., JOHP) , and applied psychology (JVB). He also serves, or has served, on the editorial boards of leading journals including the Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Human Resource Management Journal.

His research examines contemporary challenges at the intersection of organizational behavior, human resource management, and the future of work, with particular interests in individualized HR practices, leadership and employee well-being, work–family dynamics, flexible and hybrid working, job crafting, and the changing nature of work in an increasingly digital and AI-enabled workplace. His work has been published in leading international journals, including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management Journal, and Human Resource Management among others.

Professor Rofcanin is affiliated with IESE Business School in Barcelona and has developed extensive international research collaborations across Europe and beyond. Alongside his academic work, he contributes to executive education and engages with organizations and policy stakeholders to translate research into practice. His research has also informed UK policy discussions and practice concerning work–family issues, flexible working, and the changing world of work.

Prof. Anand Kumar Jaiswal

Professor Jaiswal is a Professor of Marketing at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. His research interests include bottom of the pyramid markets, services management, B2C e-commerce, frugal and business model innovations. He has published papers in the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Business Ethics, Long Range Planning, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Journal of Business Research, European Journal of Marketing and other journals. He has been involved in executive development programmes with several Indian and multinational corporations.

Prof. Minu Kumar

Minu Kumar is a Professor of Marketing at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and is the Co-editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Product Innovation Management. At SFSU he is also the Founder-Director of the Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship (RI&E) Research Initiatives. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy, a Masters in Business Administration (Concentration in Pharmaceutical Marketing, 2002) and a Ph.D. in Marketing. Professor Kumar has published in journals such as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Psychology, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, MIT Sloan Management Review among others in the areas of Innovation, New Product Design & Development, and Entrepreneurship. His academic entrepreneurship work has directly helped the university raise several millions of dollars for I&E programs. He has also worked for or consulted with firms such as Barilla, SAP, Ranbaxy Pharmaceuticals, Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Schering Plough Pharmaceuticals, Medtronic, Glaxo Smithkline, among others on product design & development, sales, and marketing projects.