Highlighted Speakers
Dr. Sphesihle Ndlela
Dr. Sphesihle Ndlela is a Senior Software Developer at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE). She also holds a Doctor of Business Administration degree from MANCOSA, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Regenesys Business School, and a Bachelor of Science (Data Communication Technology) degree from the University of Zululand. She has developed an interest in solving a small business problem, by merging technical expertise with business management knowledge. She has recently embarked on a journey of research in order to provide solutions to problems faced by small businesses in South Africa and beyond. Her areas of interest are innovation, creative thinking, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, SME management, SME survival, SME longevity, and SME sustainability.
Ass. Prof. Natália Teixeira
Associated Professor Natália Teixeira is working at ISG – Instituto Superior de Gestão. Natália has a PhD. in Economics (University of Manchester, 1999), and her research interests are economic growth and economic cycles, social responsibility, and environmental sustainability, being an integrated member of CEFAGE – Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics.
Dr. Vibhas Amawate
Dr. Vibhas Amawate is a doctorate from IIM Kashipur, Associate Professor in Marketing, IIM Shillong. He has held academic and corporate roles in a career spanning over two decades at LG Electronics and Kantar Group (WPP). He is a visiting faculty at leading management institutions in India in different areas of marketing. He has published series of research papers in international journals (A and B). He works in the area of Cause related marketing, business to business to marketing and online brand communities.
Ms. Christina Jiang
Ms.Christina Jiang is a third-year student at Blair Academy. Her research interests focus on international economics, statistics, econometrics, and relationships between economic models.
Ms. Ayat Nader Yousef Abdalgani
Ms.Ayat Nader Yousef Abdalgani, is a PhD student at UTM university doing research on finance and banking. She has experience teaching Financial management and corporate governance
Miss. Ling Liu
Miss. Ling Liu is a senior student at the College of Business and Public Management, Kean University-Wenzhou. Her major is Accounting. In Ling’s studies, she focuses on Financial Accounting and Managerial Accounting while doing research in Auditing area with faculty.
Past Speakers
Prof. Dejan Trifunovic
Prof. Dejan Trifunovic is a full professor of Microeconomics and Industrial Organization Of the university of Belgrade, Faculty of Economics. He has PhD-Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade which was completed in 2009. His areas of interests are Auctions, Matching, Competition policy, Game theory, Network industries, Asymmetric information.
Dr. Nadia Sbei Trabelsi
Dr. Nadia Sbei Trabelsi is currently an Associate Professor of Accounting at the American University in Dubai. Her education includes a Ph.D. in Accounting from “Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis – Nice, France. Her academic experience includes courses ranging from introductory courses to upper-undergraduate and MBA courses in Accounting, Business, and Finance. In her research, she is interested in studying the quality of financial accounting information and its usefulness for decision-making. In her recent papers, she analyzed in different contexts the role of International Financial Reporting Standards in providing high quality
information to users and the costs related to their adoption for firms. She has published papers in top-quality journals such as the International Journal of Accounting and Information Management and the Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal.
Mrs. Imen Omri
Mrs. Imen Omri is graduated with a PhD in Finance from Carthage University. She is an Assistant Professor at Law and Business School and researcher at the “Research and Innovation Center CRI” at Polytech Intl Group, Tunisia.
Her areas of interest revolve around Financial markets, Asset pricing, Financial contagion, Portfolio management and Applied finance.
Mr. Dingyan Guo
Mr. Dingyan Guo is currently an undergraduate in Durham university. He is a 3rd year undergraduate in Bsc Finance. After the first 2 years’ study, he found the attraction of Economics and is looking forward to paying more attention on this domain.
Mr.Iulian Nicolae Vasiloiu
Mr.Iulian Nicolae Vasiloiu is a PhD Student at the Romanian Academy from Bucharest, Romania and economist at the National Bank of Romania since 2009. His PhD studies focus on economic integration, analysis of macroeconomic indicators, adoption of the euro.
