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Govert Vroom is a Professor in the Strategic Management Department of IESE Business School, Barcelona. He received his Ph.D. from INSEAD. His doctoral dissertation received the Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Strategic Management division of the Academy of Management. Professor Vroom’s research interests include competitive strategy, corporate diversification, company purpose, and the future of business, society, and capitalism. His work has been published in leading scholarly journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. He has been elected in leadership roles at the Strategic Management Society and the Academy of Management. He teaches in IESE’s MBA program and in executive education.

Prof Lawrence Loh is Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability at NUS Business School of the National University of Singapore. He is also Professor in Practice of Strategy and Policy at the University.
Prof Loh received a PhD in Management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His thesis on technology governance was conferred first prize in the worldwide doctoral competition in information systems.
Prof Loh leads governance and sustainability studies covering Asia Pacific, ASEAN and Singapore. He serves as consultant for Fortune 500 companies and international organizations and conducts corporate executive development. Prof Loh is widely cited in global and local media
Prof Loh is multi-time winner of NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award and is placed on the University’s Honour Roll.

Olawale Ajai is the Professor of Legal, Social and Political Environment of Business and Head, Department of Strategy. He holds a PhD in law and facilitates sessions on social and political environment of business, business law, microeconomics of competitiveness and public sector management. His research focuses on business law, environmental laws and policies, corporate sustainability and corporate political activity. He is an alumnus of Lagos Business School, IESE Business School and Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He is a Member of the Nigerian Bar Association, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law, Institute of Directors of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Personnel Management of Nigeria; and a Fellow of the Leadership for Environment and Development International (LEAD).

With a background in classical philosophy and international relations, Prof. Bazela translates deep philosophical insights into accessible frameworks for decision-makers. He has written over 90 teaching cases, technical notes, and practice-focused articles. He examines how liberal values can persist and adapt amid the influences of techno-authoritarianism, AI surveillance, climate crisis, and geopolitical shifts. He introduces the idea of post-liberal resilience as a way to reimagine freedom and responsibility in non-liberal contexts. He teaches courses on geopolitics, comparative politics, and sustainability.

Dr. Niloy Ranjan Biswas is Professor of International Relations at the University of Dhaka. He earned his Ph.D. in International Politics from City, University of London, and an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from George Washington University as a Fulbright Fellow (2010–12). He was a USIP-Resolve Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2017 and a CRG Fellow in 2021. His research spans forced migration, peace operations, preventing violent extremism, law enforcement reform, and Women, Peace and Security (WPS). Author and editor of multiple books and over forty academic works, he has published in leading journals including International Affairs and International Peacekeeping. He frequently lectures at Bangladesh’s defense, police, and diplomatic training institutions. 

David Veredas is Professor and Associate Dean at Vlerick Business School. His expertise lies at the intersection of sustainability, data analytics, risk, and investments. For more than 25 years, he publishes regularly on these topics in general public media and in international peer-review academic journals.

Prof. Veredas has a strong social commitment. He is a member of the Club of Rome EU Chapter, of the finance committee of the King Baudouin Foundation, and of the investment committee of the Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine. In addition, he is the recipient of the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Teaching Award.

Alon Rozen is CEO, Dean and Professor of Innovation at École des Ponts Business School in Paris. A specialist in circular economy and dynamic business modeling, he helps organizations redesign value creation for regenerative impact. He served as the higher-education representative on the inaugural B Lab France Board, advancing the B Corp movement nationally. Alon also sits on ENGIE’s RDE Corporate Social Venture Capital investment committee, steering investments that align profit with purpose, and on the board of PLACE, a pioneering platform accelerating immigrant and refugee talent into entrepreneurship and leadership. A former startupper turned scholar-practitioner, he blends lean innovation, leadership science and systems thinking to challenge orthodox capitalism and cultivate the next generation of conscious change-makers across sectors and geographies today.

Sourav Mukherji is a Professor of Organization Behaviour and Dean of Faculty and Alumni Affairs at IIM Bangalore. During the past 21 years as an academic, Sourav’s teaching and research focus has been strategy and design of organizations with special emphasis on the theme of business as a force for good. He has published scholarly papers and authored case studies on environmentally sustainable and socially inclusive organizations, several of which have been published online by the Harvard Business Publishers. Based on his research on inclusivity, he published a book titled, Inclusive Business Models through Cambridge University Press in 2021.

Sourav holds a B Tech Honors from IIT Kharagpur and is a Fellow (PhD) from IIM Bangalore. Sourav worked with organizations such as IBM, Oracle and the Boston Consulting Group. Sourav has been a consultant to several for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and sits on the governing and advisory boards of many of them.

Tanya is Faculty at GIBS Business School in South Africa, focused on Climate Leadership and Sustainability in the MBA programme. She also teaches in the Corporate Education and Executive Education programmes on sustainability matters. Tanya serves on the Board of the Compliance Institute Southern Africa (CISA) and is Chairman of its Social Ethics Remuneration and Nominations (SERN) Committee. Formerly Global Head of Sustainability at Investec, she led strategy and sustainability across multiple regions, including the UK, and was also the Head of Investec Rhino Lifeline. Tanya is passionate about human rights and the UN SDGs, having represented Investec on the UN Global Compact board and the UN Global Investors for Sustainable Development.

Born in Denmark, Peter has been a resident of Japan for over 34 years. He is an expert in corporate sustainability, sustainability leadership, innovation, and organizational resilience, with a focus on his original Triple A concept (Anchoring + Adaptiveness + Alignment) as the foundation for resilient organizations. Peter David is also the co-founder and Executive Director of NELIS – Next Leaders’ Initiative for Sustainability, a global network of young sustainability leaders from all six continents. He serves on the board, as independent director, of Mitsubishi Electric, Meiji Holdings and Marui Group.

Fathyah Hashim, DBA (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), MSc (Accounting) (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia), BA (Accounting and Finance) (University of Plymouth, UK) is a senior lecturer at the Graduate School of Business (GSB), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). Prior to joining USM, she was working as an accounting lecturer at a private college in Kuala Lumpur. She has been teaching Accounting for Managers, Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Enterprise courses to MBA students at GSB. She has held the position of visiting academic at Brunel Business School, Brunel University London, United Kingdom.

Her area of specialization is in Voluntary Reporting and her research interests include Intellectual Capital, R&D and Corporate Social Responsibility Disclosure. She has presented her research works at various national and international conferences including Macrotheme Business and Economics Conference, Malaysia-Indonesia International Conference on Economics, Management and Accounting, and National Seminar Islamic Banking and Finance Conference. She has published in various journals including Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting and Finance, Jurnal Pengurusan, Malaysian Accounting Review, and International Journal of Management Studies. She has also co-edited a casebook entitled “Improving Performance and Enhancing Competitiveness: In Search of Innovative Solutions”.

She is appointed as one of the Peer Review Team Leaders of an international accreditation body, The Alliance on Business Education and Scholarship for Tomorrow (ABEST21), to review Management Programmes at several international business schools in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Japan. Recently, she has been appointed as an Accreditation Adviser to ABEST21.

Professor Park is Emeritus Professor at Seoul National University Business School(SNU Business School), Honorary Professor at Shizenkan University (Tokyo, Japan) and Visiting Professor at IESE Business School (Barcelona, Spain).

After receiving Ph.D. from Columbia Business School, Professor Park joined London Business School as an assistant professor. Since 1996, he had taught at Graduate School of Business and College of Business Administration, Seoul National University for 27 years. Professor Park also served as Vice Dean (2005-2007) and as the 18th and 19th Dean (2017-2020) of SNU Business School.

As Chairman of CEO Academy Association in Korea, he also cultivates the humanistic managers who are respected in the Korean Society. Professor Park also serves as Chairman of the Financial Innovation Division, Financial Development Review Committee at Financial Services Commission, and as outside-directors and advisory professors at major Korean companies.

Dr. Debora Linehan’s area of expertise is Intercultural Leadership. Her research is focused on cultural integration in the workplace and explores biculturalism and ethnic identity. The research also reveals the cultural interactions, power imbalances, and organizational gaps that lead to exclusion in the workplace. As a scholar practitioner, her goal is to advance the study and application of intercultural leadership competencies within organizations and to promote diversity in leadership.

Dr. Kamonkanok Kiatisakchai (Dr. Kamille) is Associate Dean and MBA Program Director at the School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT). She oversees international programs, faculty development, and executive learning initiatives. She holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy, Management, and Leadership from Chulalongkorn University, an MBA in Organizational Leadership from the University of Findlay (USA), and a Master’s in International Management from Yonsei University (Korea), with her previous academic background rooted in social administration and policy. Previously, she served as Dean of the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at a leading Thai university, directing more than 2,000 students and 100 faculty. Her expertise spans leadership, human capital development, ESG, and organizational growth. She has also led international research projects, including Thailand’s case study under the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and designed development programs for leading corporations in Thailand’s petroleum and public transportation sectors.

Siti Jahroh is an Associate Professor at School of Business, IPB University, Indonesia. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International Agriculture and Food Studies, Master Degree in International Bio-Business Studies and PhD in International Bio-Business Studies from Tokyo University of Agriculture. She is also an adjunct lecturer at Tokyo University of Agriculture, Japan. She has been teaching Business and Entrepreneurship; Business Model Innovation; Bio-business Dynamics and Transformation; Family Business; Social Entrepreneurship; Business and Entrepreneurial Mindset; Risk Assessment Techniques; Theory and Practice of Entrepreneurship; and Entrepreneurship Theory and Management Innovation. She has been conducting research in collaboration with FAO, ERIA, TUA, UUM, CRS, ICASEPS, Brighten Institute, etc. She has published papers at national as well as international journals such as Sustainability, Economies, IJSAM, ISSAAS Journal, IJBE, JMA, JABM, BRCS, etc.