Professor Mohammad Ali

Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Mohammad Ali is the Pro Vice-Chancellor & Dean at Anglia Ruskin University and holds key leadership roles, including Vice Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) and Chair of the Risk & Audit Committee. He is a distinguished academic and executive leader with over 25 years of experience in higher education, business, law, governance, and the automotive sector. With extensive expertise in corporate governance, strategic planning, risk management, and stakeholder engagement, he has a proven track record of driving institutional growth and innovation. He frequently engages with professional organisations, serving as a judge for the Financial Times Responsible Business Education Awards, British Academy of Management Education Practice Awards and previously as a board member in the Government Advisory Board for changes in ISO manufacturing standards for automotive parts. Additionally, he has been a judge for the European Foundation for Management Development, supply chain case competition and an Academic Auditor for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport. A leading researcher in business forecasting, Mohammad has an impressive publication record with 70% of his peer-reviewed journal articles appearing in highly ranked 3* and 4* journals (Chartered ABS). Through his work, he continues to enhance business education, promote institutional excellence, and cultivate impactful collaborations across sectors.

Professor Ali R. Kamali, FRSC

Northeastern University, China

Ali Kamali is a Distinguished Professor and the Director of the Green Energy and Environmental Materials Research Centre (E2MC) at Northeastern University. He directs the China-UK Joint Research Centre for Advanced Materials, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC. An alumnus of the University of Cambridge, he is the Founding Director of four materials technology firms, focused on commercialising his inventions on clean technologies for the sustainable production of advanced materials and the recycling/upcycling of waste materials for demanding applications, including energy storage and environmental protection. With over £46 million in research funding, his work has resulted in more than 50 patents, licensed to leading companies worldwide, the publication of around 200 articles in journals, including Green Chemistry, Energy and Environmental Science, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Carbon, Progress in Materials Science, Small, Chemical Engineering Journal, and Applied Energy, and books with publishers such as Springer Nature. Ali has delivered over 60 invited lectures at national and international events and has received several distinguished awards, including the NSFC Excellent International Scientist Fellowship, the International Khwarizmi Award, the Rose Award of Shenyang, and the Armourers & Brasiers Award. He currently chairs the AiScholar Academic Committee and supervises graduate and post-doctoral researchers in China and the UK. He serves on the editorial boards of journals like Mineral Processing & Extractive Metallurgy, and on national grant review boards including the EPSRC Peer Review College.

 Ingo Wender

 Founding President of Advanced Potash Technologies, Brazil

Ingo is a high-tech entrepreneur and investor with focus on natural resources conversion processes, with a track record of supporting the development of innovative and sustainable solutions in metal production, soil revitalization, water quality, energy management, and advanced materials. He was the first investor in Boston Metal, an MIT spinout and Bill Gates-backed company, commercialising molten oxide electrolysis for ferro ally and green steel production. His other ventures include pioneering potassium-based nutrients produced from feldspar, to restore degraded soils, producing sustainable potash fertilizers to enhance crop health and improving crop productivity and backing the advancing of cost-effective high-quality graphene for energy storage. As the founder of Cambridge Advanced Holdings, Ingo supports groundbreaking research on recycling waste plastics, promoting a circular economy, and upcycling waste into high-performance materials for energy storage applications and others.

Professor Qing Li

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hongkong, China

Qing Li is currently a Chair Professor (Data Science) and the Head of the Department of Computing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Formerly, he was the founding Director of the Multimedia software Engineering Research Centre (MERC), and a Professor at City University of Hong Kong where he worked in the Department of Computer Science from 1998 to 2018. Prior to these, he has also taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Australian National University (Canberra, Australia). Prof. Li served as a consultant to Microsoft Research Asia (Beijing, China), Motorola Global Computing and Telecommunications Division (Tianjin Regional Operations Center), and the Division of Information Technology, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) in Australia.  He has been an Adjunct Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) and the Wuhan University, and a Guest Professor of the Hunan University (Changsha, China) where he got his BEng. degree from the Department of Computer Science in 1982. He is also a Guest Professor (Software Technology) of the Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) -- the leading university of the Zhejiang province where he was born.

Prof. Li has been actively involved in the research community by serving as an associate editor and reviewer for technical journals, and as an organizer/co-organizer of numerous international conferences. Some recent conferences in which he is playing or has played major roles include APWeb-WAIM'18, ICDM 2018, WISE2017, ICDSC2016, DASFAA2015, U-Media2014, ER2013, RecSys2013, NDBC2012, ICMR2012, CoopIS2011, WAIM2010, DASFAA2010, APWeb-WAIM'09, ER'08, WISE'07, ICWL'06, HSI'05, WAIM'04, IDEAS'03,VLDB'02, PAKDD'01, IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-9), IDS'00, and WISE'00.

 In addition, he served as a programme committee member for over fifty international conferences (including VLDB, ICDE, WWW, DASF

Dr. Mukesh Kumar

University of Cambridge, UK

Dr. Mukesh Kumar is an Associate Professor in Operations Management and the Head of the Industrial Resilience Research Group at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), University of Cambridge. Holding a PhD in Risk in Production Networks from the University of Cambridge, Dr. Kumar has cultivated a distinctive academic and professional profile, with experience that includes serving as a MIM Supervisor at Cranfield University (UK) and as a Senior Banking and Finance Analyst with banks in India and Thailand. At Cambridge, he has held key roles such as Chair of Examiners for the Manufacturing Engineering Tripos, Co-leader of the Inclusive Manufacturing Research Theme, and Senior Treasurer of the Cambridge University Eco Racing Student Society. Beyond the university, he has contributed to high-level panels and committees, including the Food Standards Agency, UK. Dr. Kumar's research focuses on critical areas such as the UK-India Critical Mineral Supply Chain Observatory, blockchain applications in nutrition supply chain design, and circular economy practices in manufacturing networks. His work has garnered significant grant funding and is featured in leading journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Annals of Operations Research, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management.

Professor Sian Moore

Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Sian Moore is the Deputy Dean of Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Business and Law at Anglia Ruskin University. She earned her PhD from Essex University, focusing on gender and class consciousness during industrialisation, and holds a BA in History from the University of York. Before joining Anglia Ruskin, Sian was a Professor in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management at the University of Greenwich, where she also served as Director of the Centre for Research on Work and Employment (CREW). She was Professor of Work and Employment Relations and Co-Director of the Centre for Employment Studies Research (CESR) at the University of the West of England, and  has held roles as Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC) at the University of Leeds. Sian contributed to the Leverhulme Future of Unions Programme at the London School of Economics and spent five years at the Labour Research Department. Earlier in her career, she worked in local government and was an active trade unionist with NALGO (now part of UNISON).She has published extensively on topics related to work and employment, particularly on intersectional relationships, representation, and organisation in the workplace.

Professor Minna Lammi

Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Minna Lammi is a Professor of Sustainability at Anglia Ruskin University. Her expertise lies in circular economy, sustainable business models, consumer acceptance, and transition processes toward a sustainable society. Over the past decade, Minna has focused on the emerging circular economy, striving to make a meaningful impact through research aimed at promoting knowledge-based policies and driving societal change toward sustainability. She frequently employs participatory and deliberative methods in her work. Minna regularly collaborates with companies to promote the transition toward a circular economy and sustainable practices. Her research has been funded by several funding bodies, including the Strategic Research Council of Finland, among others.

Professor Marina Dabić 

University of Zagreb&the University of Dubrovnik, Croatia
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Marina Dabić is a professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, the University of Dubrovnik, Croatia and the School of Business and Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. From 2013 to 2022, she was a adjunct professor at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. She is a visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the ICN, France. She has authored over 250 Scopus and WOS-indexed articles and edited ten books with Springer, Edward Elgar, Routledge, Palgrave and De Gruyter. She is Editor-in-Chief of Technology in Society, Associate Editor of Technological Forecasting & Social Change and Strategic Change, and Senior Department Editor for IEEE Transactions on Management. She is ranked in the top 2% of scholars in business and management (Stanford list 2022;2023; 2024). She publishes her work in top-tier journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Horizons, and Journal of Business Ethics. 90% of her publications were published in Q1 listed journals in WOS and/or Scopus. Prof. Dabić has supervised nine PhDs and participated in over 20 Ph. D.'s committees worldwide. She is a panel member for the European Research Council (ERC) and Horizon Europe, a reviewer for the European Science Foundation and a grantee/partner in 20 EC-funded projects. She is also the Strategic Director for Accreditation at the triple-accredited AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA Faculty of Economics and Business Universityof Zagreb .

She is an AACSB mentor and EFMD per the review team.