Speakers

Dr. Fr. Abraham V M is the Vice-Chancellor of CHRIST University, India. He has a Master’s degree in Mathematics from University of Calicut; and a Master’s in Computer Science from Iona College, New York. He obtained his PhD in Mathematics from Bangalore University, in the area of graph theory. As an accomplished scholar, Dr. Fr. Abraham has significant publications and figures on the Editorial Board of reputed journals. In his career at CHRIST spanning almost 30 years, he has served in various capacities, as Principal of Christ Junior College; Finance Officer of Christ College; Professor, Department of Mathematics; Director, Centre for Research; and the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University.

Dr. Gregory Postel is the President of The University of Toledo, USA. He is former interim president and executive vice president for health affairs at the University of Louisville (UofL). Prior to joining UToledo, Dr. Postel served as the senior client partner representing healthcare services and higher education at Korn Ferry, a global organizational consulting firm. Dr. Postel has more than 25 years of experience with academic medical center and university operations, governance, clinical care, teaching and the support of research.

Dr. Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry is Professor at the Department of International Studies and History, CHRIST University, India. He has a Ph. D in History from Pondicherry University. He has Co-authored an edited book - Revisiting a Treasure Trove: Perspectives on the Collection at St Kuriakose Elias Chavara Archives and Research Centre. One of his latest publication is “Organization Culture and Work Values of Global Firms: Merging Eastern and Western Perspectives”. His area of interests are Maritime Studies, Organizational Culture and Work Values.

Dr. Paul C. Hong is a Distinguished University Professor of Global Supply Chain Management and Asian Studies of John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation at the University of Toledo, USA. His recent books include Rising Asia and American Hegemony: Case of Competitive Firms from Japan, Korea, China and India (2020; Springer), Creative Innovative Firms from Japan: A Benchmark Inquiry into Firms from Three Rival Nations (2019; Springer). He can be reached at <paul.hong@utoledo.edu>.

Dr. Tony Sam George is the Dean of School of Social Sciences, Head of the Psychology department and an Associate Director of the Centre for Research at CHRIST University, Bangalore, India. He is also a Professor of Psychology with a demonstrated history of working in the education management industry. Dr. George is expert in E-Learning, Social Services, Group Therapy, Student Counseling, and Family Therapy. He is a strong education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) focused in Group Psychotherapy from National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences.

Dr. Anne L. Balazs is the Dean of John B. and Lillian E. Neff College of Business and Innovation, The University of Toledo, USA. She holds a Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. During her 10 years at EMU, Dr. Balazs also served as interim assistant vice president and director of graduate studies, interim director of graduate studies, special assistant to the dean of the College of Business, head of the Department of Marketing and professor of marketing. Her research has been published in the Journal of International Business, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Psychology & Marketing and Journal of Business Research.

Dr. James F. Keenan, S.J., is the Canisius Chair, Director of the Jesuit Institute, and Vice-Provost for Global Engagement at Boston College. A Jesuit priest since 1982, he received a licentiate and a doctorate from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. He has edited or written 25 books and published over 400 essays, articles, and reviews. As the founder of Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church (CTEWC), a network of over 1500 Catholic ethicists (www.catholicethics.com), he chaired the international conferences in Padua (2006), Trento (2010) and Sarajevo (2018).

Dr. Michael Dreyer is Professor for political theory and history of ideas at the FSU Jena since 2005. Previously he was a DAAD Professor at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. He secured his Doctorate with Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrich Matthée (Kiel) in 1986 with a work on the German theory of federalism in the 19th century. He has been the Director of the institute; Institute for Political Science from 2006-2009. He is the Deputy member of the faculty council of the Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences since 2006. since 2007: DAAD expert for the North America program. He is a member of several academic associations.

Dr. Sandeep Shastri is the Vice Chancellor of the Jagran Lakecity University, Bhopal. Dr Shastri's research has been in the fields of Elections Studies, Federalism, Political Institutions and Processes, Karnataka Politics and the Teaching/Learning Process. He has authored 13 books, over 50 chapters in Edited books and over 95 articles in refereed research journals besides more than 300 Op Ed page articles in leading international and national newspapers. Dr Shastri is also a political commentator who appears frequently on television and has been a featured election analyst on India Today TV, CNN-IBN, CNBC.

Dr. Amalendu Jyotishi is a faculty with the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bangalore. He has two books and 35 research papers published in journals and book chapters to his credit. He is one of the core research members of ‘Asian Initiative on Legal Pluralism’ and was the coordinator of the group during the period 2012 to 2015. He is also an Executive Committee member of Indian Society for Ecological Economics (INSEE) 2018 – 2020. His current portfolio of research interest includes fish for food security, dried fish value chain, subsistence economic models and commons.

Dr. Amit Prakash is a Professor at the Centre for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. His areas of research include politics of development and identity; critical governance studies (including governance indicators); conflict, governance and the state; democratic political process in India; policing in India; and, global governance. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Dr. Irfan Nooruddin is the Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Indian Politics in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. He is presently affiliated with Lokniti: Programme for Comparative Democracy in New Delhi, India, and with the South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council. He received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan. His research interests include problems of economic development, democratization, and civil conflict in the developing world.

Dr. Prasanta Chakravarty teaches English at the University of Delhi. His works include The Creature: In Power and Pain (Bloomsbury, 2021), Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Opulence of Existence (Three Essays Collective, 2018) and Like Parchment in the Fire: Literature and Radicalism in the English Civil War (Routledge, 2006). He is the editor of the anthologies Shrapnel Minima: Essays from Humanities Underground (Seagull Books and University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Populism and Its Limits: After Articulation (Bloomsbury, 2020).

Dr. Danijela Majstorović (MA 2003, Ohio University; PhD 2006 University of Banja Luka) is Professor of English Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the University of Banja Luka’s English department. Her research interests involve critical discourse analysis, critical theory, feminist theory, post- and decolonial theory, and post-Dayton Bosnia. She published over 25 journal articles, co-authored Youth Ethnic and National Identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Palgrave, 2013), authored Diskursi periferije (Biblioteka XX vek, Belgrade) and Diskurs, moć i međunarodna zajednica (FF Banja Luka, 2007).

Prof. Hartwell Christopher is the Head of the International Management Institute at ZHAW School of Management and Law in Zurich and full Professor at Kozminski University (Warsaw). He holds a PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics and an MPP in International Trade and Finance from Harvard University. He is the author of Institutional Barriers in the Transition to Market: Examining Performance and Divergence in Transition Economies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) and Two Roads Diverge: The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2016).

Dr. John Dean is a Professor at Catholic University of Paris (l'Institut Catholique de Paris) from 2018-present at English Department and Information Communications Department. He completed his PhD from the University of London in English Literature. He has been a Consulting Historian, Ford Motor Company; Visiting Distinguished Professor or Resident Scholar at, inter alia, the Huntington Library, San Marino, California; the University of Colorado at Boulder; the University of California, Santa Cruz; the Henry Ford Museum & Archives, Dearborn; the Graduate Institute, St.John’s College, Santa Fe; Christ University, Bangalore, India.

Dr. Jesse Richman is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Old Dominion University. He holds a PHD in Political Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Richman teaches courses in American Politics and research methods for the Department of Political Science and Geography, and also teaches Game Theory, Statistics, and Research Methods for the Graduate Program in International Studies. He served as an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow from 2011-2012, and completed a Fulbright grant in Budapest Hungary in Fall 2019 where he studied populism. He has served as Director of the Social Science Research Center at Old Dominion University, and as Acting Director of the Graduate Program in International Studies.

Dr. Vishwanath N S is currently the Honorary Director General (Research), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s MP Birla Institute of Management (MPBIM). He was the Professor of Marketing & Economics, Maharishi Institute of Management, M.S. Ramaiah Institute of Management (1995-1999). He was awarded PhD in Economics (Commodity Marketing) Karnataka University, Dharwad (1994). He has Successfully guided fourteen scholars for PhD in Management. He possesses 23 years of PG teaching in Management and rich Industry research experience of 21 years. He is also the Referee for PhD/fellow theses of IIM Bangalore and several other universities. He can be reached at <viswanathns19@gmail.com>

Dr. Jeevananda S is presently the Associate Dean at School of Business and Management, CHRIST (Deemed to be University). He has over 24 years of industry and teaching experience. He has worked with telecom service provider and electronic industry for nearly thirteen years in the area of corporate sales and strategies before joining SBM, Christ University in the year March 2009. He has published more than 25 articles at various National and International Refereed Journals. His research interest is in the areas of retailing, service marketing, business to business marketing, CRM, consumer behavior, international trade.

Dr. Benjamin De Cleen is an associate professor at the VUB Communication Studies Department where he is the coordinator of the English-language master on Journalism and Media in Europe. His research has mainly been focused on radical right rhetoric, and on the discursive conceptualization of populism, nationalism and conservatism. Dr. Benjamin is the co-director of the VUB research group Echo - Media, Culture and Politics and the international chair of DESIRE, the Centre for Democracy, Signification and Resistance, an international joint research group that brings together people from the VUB, University of Ljubljana, University of Essex, Charles University in Prague, and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Benjamin-De-Clee