1. PhD. David COLLINS, Suffolk Business School

2. PhD. Alina Mihaela DIMA,Society for Business Excellence

3. PhD. Jason POWEL,University of Chester

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David Collins, Head of the University’s Business School

Professor David Collins joined the University of Suffolk in January 2017 and is the founding Head of the University’s Business School. He holds an MA (Hons) in Political Economy and Sociology from the University of Glasgow, an MSc in Industrial Relations from the University of Strathclyde and a PhD in Management Studies from the University of Essex. In many ways David owes his academic career to The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (which provided a bursary for his post-graduate education) and to his erstwhile tutor Bert Moorhouse (who penned the reference that persuaded the Carnegie Trust to support this endeavour).
Ever mindful of the need a) to widen participation in higher education and b) to demonstrate a personal commitment to this agenda, David signed over the royalties for his first book ‘Organizational Change: Sociological Perspectives’ (published by Taylor and Francis, Routledge) to the Carnegie Trust and is now one of the biggest individual contributors to this fund.
In an academic career spanning more than a quarter of a century Professor Collins has worked for Napier University of Edinburgh, the University of Sunderland, the University of East Anglia, the University of Essex and, most recently, the University of Hull where he was Director of the MBA. He is recognised as a challenging yet hugely entertaining teacher and lecturer. Indeed colleagues have been kind enough to observe that ‘students visibly grow, develop and change under his tutelage’.
David’s research has produced notable publications including key books on ‘Management Fads and Buzzwords’ and on the management ‘guru’ Tom Peters (both published by Taylor and Francis, Routledge) and some 50 articles on a broad range of topics including: management consultants and the advice industry; empowerment; management fashion; professionalism and professional projects; financial regulation and the collapse of the Equitable Life. At its annual conference, The British Academy of Management (BAM) has twice awarded prizes to David for papers based upon his research.
In recent years Professor Collins has developed an academic interest in organizational storytelling, which suggests that the essence of managerial work revolves around a concern with ‘purposeful talk’. He has utilised this storytelling approach to reflect critically upon the appeal and the legacy of In Search of Excellence (a hugely influential text published by Tom Peters and Bob Waterman in 1982) and has built upon this appreciation of the organized world to develop a one-day Executive seminar on storytelling. This seminar has been designed to allow participants to locate, understand and critique their own managerial priorities and the storytelling practices prevalent within their own organizations. A new book designed to support this one-day event entitled ‘Stories for Management Success: Harnessing the Power of Talk in Organizations’, will be published by Taylor and Francis, Routledge in 2018.

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Alina Mihaela DIMA, Faculty of Business Administration

Alina Mihaela Dima is a full Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Business Administration and since November 2011, she is the Director of the UNESCO Department for Business Administration. Alina Dima has graduated in 1998 the International Business and Economics Faculty (REI) within the Bucharest University of Economic Studies; she has a Master degree in Economics, specialization in Intra-European Transactions and a PhD. in Economics since 2007 with specialization in International Business and Economics.
Her main research fields of interest are: International Business, Competition Policy, European Integration, Higher Education. She has coordinated two national projects related to competition policy and higher education in Europe financed by UEFISCDI. She is one of the founding members and the vice-president of the association ‘Society for Business Excellence’, Chief-Editor of the journal Management & Marketing, Challenges for the Knowledge Society indexed in more than 20 international databases (Scopus, Cabell’s, Index Copernicus, CEEOL, EBSCO, RePEc, DOAJ, Ulrich and ProQuest) and published by De Gruyter German Publishing House.
She has presented various papers at academic conferences in Romania and outside and she has published more than 70 articles, books and papers in prestigious national and international journals, such as Transylvanian Review of Administrative Studies, Amfiteatru Economic Journal, Business Review Cambridge (BRC), International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry (IJLSE) and Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting.
She is the single editor of the book “Handbook on Research on Trends in European Higher Education Convergence”(2014) published by IGI Global USA, she is the co-author of 17 chapters in international edited books and she is a member in the Scientific Committee of the International Conference ECIC organized by Academic Conferences and indexed ISI Proceedings.

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1. Christophe André, Senior Economist, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

2. PhD. Gheorghe ZAMAN, Corresponding member of Romanian Academy, president of General Association of Economists of Romania

3. Dr. Dababrata CHOWDHURY, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Marketing, Director of the Middle East Research Centre (MERC), MBM-Programme Leader, Suffolk Business School, UK

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Christophe André, Senior Economist, Economics Department, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Christophe André is a senior economist in the Economics Department of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). Since joining the OECD in 1997, he has taken part in the work of the organisation in several fields, including macroeconomic analysis, economic modelling and forecasting, and fiscal and monetary policy. He has contributed to several editions of the OECD Economic Outlook. He has also co-authored OECD Economic Surveys on Finland, Sweden and the United Kingdom. In this context he has studied in depth how competitiveness and innovation has affected these countries’ economic performances. He is now heading the Sweden and Finland desk in the OECD Economics Department, monitoring macroeconomic developments and producing forecasts and economic reports. Christophe has also co-authored a report on the efficiency of health care systems in OECD countries and a number of papers in housing and economic journals. He has been invited to present his work in 18 countries around the world.

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Gheorghe ZAMAN, Corresponding member of Romanian Academy president of General Association of Economists of Romania
Prof. dr. Zaman Gheorghe - is a graduate of the Faculty of International Economic Relations (1965) a corresponding member of Romanian Academy, president of General Association of Economists of Romania, director of the Institute of National Economy. Main scientific research domains of theoretical and practical interest are: macroeconomic efficiency; sustainable economic development; impact of foreign direct investment; EU integration; economics of technological change and R&D. He is a member of scientific boards of several economic Journals in Romania and abroad and professional society.

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Dr. Dababrata CHOWDHURY, Senior Lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Director of the Middle East Research Centre (MERC), MBM-Programme Leader, Suffolk Business School, UK
Dr Dababrata Chowdhury (Daba) is Senior lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Knowledge Management and Director of Middle East Research Centre (MERC) at University Campus Suffolk (UCS). He graduated from the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Hacettepe University in Turkey and completed his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) and PhD at Plymouth University in UK.
His research interests cover small and medium-sized business development and growth in new product develops; adoption of new technologies; and Female entrepreneurial theory for start-up business and cluster development.
He is a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM) and Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). In addition, he is a visiting professor and PhD assessor for Karachi University in Pakistan, Canakkale OnsekizMart University in Turkey and Kazakh–British Technical University in Kazakhstan.
Dr Chowdhury is a Chief Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Development and Management Studies; editorial board member of the Journal of Global Strategic Management (JGSM); and an Editorial Journal Board member for the newly established Review of Enterprise and Management Studies (REAMS) at UCS. He is also member of editorial boards for number of international refereed journals. He has written and published widely on the subject of Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Management, with significant contributions to international refereed journals, through book chapters, international conferences, seminars, symposia, workshops and public talks. He is writing a book with a colleague, titled: on “Female Leadership in UK Higher Education: creating new directions”, to be published in January 2017 by Cambridge Scholars. He can speak Bengali, English, Turkish, Urdu, Azerbaijani and Hindi.
He is also a well-known public and private sector Knowledge Management consultant for UK, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Bangladesh and Oman. Currently he is serving in an advisory role to Bangladesh British Chamber of Women Entrepreneurship (BBCWE), the judging panel member for Suffolk Young Enterprise (SYE) and advisor for Global Research and Academic Associates (GRAA) in UK.

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1. PATRICK FRANCIS GRAY, Professor of Housing in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster, UK - The Private Rented Sector in the North and South of Ireland: Moving Towards Convergence

2. STEPHAN DAHL, Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Hull University Business School in England and Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University in Australia - Communications for the Social Good

3. HAFIZ T.A. KHAN, PhD, FRSA, FRSPH, Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics, Middlesex University, London, UK - The Key Research Issues Arising from an Ageing Workforce

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PATRICK FRANCIS GRAY, Professor of Housing, University of Ulster, UK
Paddy Gray is Professor of Housing in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster. He is an established academic and is a leading authority on housing in the UK and Ireland. He has wide experience of academic and applied research and has over 200 publications on housing related issues. He has acted as Expert Advisor to government and regularly sits on strategic panels. In 2010 he was appointed the first ever Irish President of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH). He has extensive experience of the voluntary sectors and Chairs a number of local and national groups. He contributes to Conferences and Seminars on housing internationally, nationally and locally on a range of housing issues including South Africa, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Russia, China, and Nigeria as well as conferences across mainland Europe, the UK and Ireland. He has recently been appointed as External Examiner for Masters Programme in Housing at the University of Hong Kong and programmes at the University of Glyndwr in Wales. He is also Chief Examiner for the CIH UK and Hong Kong and for the National Federation of Property Professionals UK (NFoPP) He was awarded a Distinguished Community Fellowship at the University of Ulster for outstanding work in the community He has recently been awarded an honorary Fellowship of RICS, Belfast Ambassador of the Year for 2014 and Outstanding Contribution to Work Experience for the UK 2015. He has secured the European Network for Housing Research for Belfast 2016, the first time it has come to NI.

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STEPHAN DAHL, Senior Lecturer, Hull University Business School, UK
Stephan Dahl is a Senior Lecturer in Marketing at Hull University Business School in England and Adjunct Associate Professor at James Cook University in Australia. Born in Germany, he worked in media, marketing and PR both for non-profit and commercial companies in the UK, Belgium, Germany and Spain before joining academia. His research interests include health and social marketing, cross-cultural marketing and online/social media marketing and he publishes widely in national and international journals, as well as being the author or co-author of several books on social marketing, marketing communications and international business. He currently serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Advertising Research, the Journal of Consumer Affairs and the International Journal of Market Research. His research has recently been featured in the UK on Channel 4's Dispatches Programme, Newsnight and BBC's Look East. He is the author of Social Media Marketing – Theories and Applications (SAGE, 2015) and co-author of numerous other books, including Marketing Ethics and Society (SAGE, 2015), Marketing Communications (Routledge, 2014) and Social Marketing (Pearson, 2013)

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HAFIZ T.A. KHAN, PhD, FRSA, FRSPH, Senior Lecturer in Applied Statistics, Middlesex University, London, UK
Hafiz T.A. Khan received PhD in applied statistics and is currently a Senior Lecture in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at Middlesex University in London and is also a visiting fellow in demography at the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, the University of Oxford, UK. Dr. Khan trained as a statistical demographer and has particular research interests in modelling ageing in Asia and its long-term care and support provisions. Mostly recently he has conducted research on The Global Ageing Surveys (GLAS) at the University of Oxford and has published articles on various issues of global ageing and health. He has co-authored two books on Research Methods for Business and Social Science, 2007 & 2014, Sage

1. DR. JAMIE SMITH Head of the Programme Grande Ecole at France Business School in Poitiers, France - See more

2. ALI SAYIGH, BSC, DIC, PHD, FIE, FIEE, CENG, MB WEC - See more

3. GHEORGHE ZAMAN PROF.UNIV.DR.

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DR. JAMIE SMITH
Dr. Jamie Smith is Head of the Programme Grande Ecole at France Business School in Poitiers, France. He is an active member of the Entrepreneurial Center of Research at his school with research interests including Competitive Intelligence (CI) as public policy, decision making in SMEs, and attitude antecedents in CI. He has twice been a speaker at international SCIP conferences and has presented papers at colloquiums on CI across Europe. He has taught CI at L’Ecole de Petrole et Moteur in Paris. Jamie completed his PhD at De Montfort University, Leceister, UK, in 2012 and has twice been a small business manager himself.

PRESENTATION TITLE: ”BUSINESS EDUCATION IN FRANCE AND UK - A LOOK TO THE FUTURE”

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PROF. ALI SAYIGH, BSC, DIC, PHD, FIE, FIEE, CENG, MB WEC, CHAIRMAN OF WREC & DIRECTOR GENERAL WREN
British Citizen, Graduated from London University, & Imperial College, BSC.DIC, PhD, C Eng in 1966. Fellow of the Institute of Energy, and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical & Mech. Engineers, called now Institution of Energy and Technology, Chartered Engineer, Chairman of Iraq Energy Institute. He started working in Renewable Energy in September 1969. In 1972, he established “The Journal of Engineering Sciences” in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and in 1984 he established with Pergamon Press his first International Journal for Solar and Wind Technology as an Editor-in-Chief. This has changed name in 1990 to Journal of Renewable Energy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of Renewable Energy incorporating Solar & Wind Technology, published by Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.
In 1990, he established the World Renewable Energy Congress (WREC) and in 1992 the World Renewable Energy Network (WREN) which hold their Congresses every two years, attracting more than 100 countries each time. Read more

PRESENTATION TITLE: RENEWABLE ENERGY WILL SUPPLY 50% OF GLOBAL ELECTRICITY BY 2030

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PROF.UNIV.DR. GHEORGHE ZAMAN
Prof.univ. dr.Gheorghe Zaman is a graduate of the Faculty of International Economic Relations (1965) a corresponding member of Romanian Academy, president of General Association of Economists of Romania, director of the Institute of National Economy. Main scientific research domains of theoretical and practical interest are: macroeconomic efficiency; sustainable economic development; impact of foreign direct investment; EU integration; economics of technological change and R&D. He is a member of scientific boards of several economic Journals in Romania and abroad and professional society.

PRESENTATION TITLE: THE COMPATIBILITY BETWEEN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PILLARS: A CHALLENGE FOR MULTIDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES