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Plenary speakersKEYNOTE SPEAKERS Professor James Devlin James Devlin is currently Dean of the University of Leicester School of Business and Professor of Financial Services Marketing and Consumption. Prior to joining academia in 1991, he worked for 6 years in the retail financial services industry. He has also worked at the University of Nottingham (1991-1997 and 2003-2019), serving on the Executive Board of the Business School from 2010 as Deputy Dean, Associate Dean (International Relations) and Dean of the School. He has also spent time at the University of Nottingham Malaysia (2000-2003) and the Cass Business School (1997-2000). James served on the Board of Governors of the London Institute of Banking and Finance (formally ifs University College) from 2012 to 2018 and is currently serving on the Academic Advisory Board for the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. James is the author of almost 100 journal articles and conference papers covering consumer decision making and behaviour in financial services, policy issues in financial services and marketing financial services and other marketing issues. He has also contributed to three books and has edited a number of journal special issues. James has managed or been involved in specific research projects with a total value in excess of £300,000 and has worked with HM Treasury, the Thoresen Review (on behalf of HM Treasury), Financial Services Authority and the Office of Fair Trading on a number of policy related issues, both in a consultative capacity and as a member of expert panels. James served as Research Director for the Financial Services Research Forum and helped raise over £200,000 annually for a number of years to fund research projects and academic/practitioner conferences. He was also Director of the Centre for Risk, Banking and Financial Services (now the Global Centre for Banking and Financial Innovation). Currently, he is an Advisory Board Member for the Financial Markets and Institutions SIG of the British Accounting and Finance Association and he has served as a judge for the Annual Financial Innovation Awards for more than five years. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Professor Daniel Ladley Daniel Ladley is Professor of Finance and Deputy Dean of the University of Leicester School of Business. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Finance and Banking Association and previously Director of the Leicester Institute of Finance. Professor Ladley studied for a BSc in computer science and then a PhD in finance at the University of Leeds. His research area focuses on behavioural and computational finance and he has published extensively on market microstructure and systemic risk. Dr. Peter Rodgers Dr. Peter Rodgers is Associate Dean of Marketing and Global Engagement and Associate Professor in Strategy at the University of Leicester’s School of Business. He gained a BA (Hons) degree in Social and Political Sciences from Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge and an MA and PhD from the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham. Previously, he worked at the Aston Business School and at the Sheffield University Management School between 2010-2017. His research interests focus on informality within state-business relations across post-socialist spaces, non-market strategies and transnational migrant entrepreneurship. He is a fluent Russian speaker and has worked on and managed several large international collaborative research projects across the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans, involving universities and a variety of different stakeholders. He continues to provide expert briefing advice to the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office on matters relating to the business environment in Ukraine. Professor Jeong-Yoo Kim Professor Kim is Professor of Economics at the Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He has published widely in various reputable journals. Professor Kim is also the editor of Asian Journal of Economics and Law. He is also a board member of the Asian Law and Economics Association. Associate Professor Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary Dr Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an Associate Professor of Economics at Tokai University in Japan, and a visiting Professor at Keio University, Japan. He taught as an Assistant Professor at Keio University and Waseda University in Japan. Associate Professor Aviral Tiwari Dr. Aviral Tiwari is an Associate Professor at the Rajagiri Business School, Kochi, India, Research Fellow at Laboratoire d'Economie d'Orléans (LEO - CNRS), University of Orleans, France and part-time senior researcher at South Ural State University, Russia. Prior to this, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Montpellier Business School, Montpellier, France from where he also obtained the post-doc. He received his Ph.D. in Management (Economics) from ICFAI University Tripura, India and served as Assistant Professor of Economics at IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, Hyderabad, India. His main areas of research interest are macro and monetary economics, financial economics, econometrics, and energy and environmental economics, and tourism. Dr Aviral also has a great interest in socio-economic issues, financial and ecological stability. He has to his credit a large number of high-quality research papers published in journals of international repute including top ranked journals in the prestigious Financial Times 50 list. His research work has been published in journals such as: Journal of Environmental Management, Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Management, Tourism Economics, Current Issues in Tourism, Journal of Business Ethics, Economics Letters, The World Economy, Applied Energy, Ecological Modelling, Journal of Cleaner Production, Energy Policy, Applied Economics, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Economic Modelling, Social Indicators Research etc. Dr Aviral is a Regional Editor-South-East Asia at Journal of Public Affairs, Senior Editor at International Journal of Emerging Markets, Topic Editor at Journal of Risk and Financial Management, Section Editors at IJEEP, IJEFI, Associate Editor at Cogent Economics & Finance, Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (AQAFA), IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review, European Journal of Management and Business Economics, Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory and Practice and Economic Research Guardian and Guest Editor of very reputable journals such as Annals of Operation Research, Journal of Strategic Marketing, Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy, Management Decision, Energies, Sustainability, International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management etc. He is also serving as Editorial (Advisory) Board Member at Heliyon, Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal and Data in Brief. Professor Sung Y. Park Professor Sung Y. Park is an associate professor of the School of Economics at the Chung-Ang University. He was an assistant professor of Economics at WISE, Xiamen University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is interested in the fields of Econometric Theory and Applications, Financial Econometrics, Empirical Finance, and Energy Economics. He has published in a range of journals including Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Economic Inequality, Economic Modelling, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, International Journal of Forecasting, China Economic Review, Energy Economics, Journal of Futures Markets, International Review of Finance among many others. He teaches various courses in Economics and Econometrics, including econometric theory, applied econometrics, time series econometrics, machine learning with big data, and economic mathematics. He is currently the Editor of Journal of Economic Development. Dr. Peter Morgan Peter Morgan is Senior Consulting Economist and Vice Chair of Research at the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), and has been with ADBI since 2008. He has 23 years experience in the financial sector in Asia, most recently serving in Hong Kong as Chief Asia Economist for HSBC, responsible for macroeconomic analysis and forecasting for Asia. Previously, he served as Chief Japan Economist for HSBC, and earlier held similar positions at Merrill Lynch, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Jardine Fleming. Prior to entering the financial industry, he was a consultant for Meta Systems Inc in Cambridge, MA, in energy and environmental analysis, and at International Business Information KK in Tokyo, in financial sector consulting. He earned his MA and PhD degrees in economics from Yale University. His research interests are in macroeconomic policy and financial sector regulation, reform, financial development, financial inclusion, fintech, financial literacy and financial education. He has edited 14 book and has published numerous articles in refereed journals. In addition, he served as lead co-chair of the Think 20 Task Force on “The Future of Work and Education for the Digital Age” during Japan’s leadership of the T20 process as an input to Japan’s Presidency of the G20 in 2019. Associate Professor Muhammad Ali Nasir Dr Muhammad Ali Nasir is an Associate Professor in Economics and Finance at University of Huddersfield and Senior lecturer in the Leeds Beckett University, UK. His main areas of research interest are macro and monetary economics, financial economics, econometrics, and energy and environmental economics. He has published a number of high-quality research outputs in reputable journals. Dr Nasir also has a great interest in the socio-economic issues, financial and ecological stability. His recent publications are in the Journal of Environmental Management, Energy Economics, Resources Policy, the Manchester School, Annals of Operations Research and Journal of Economics Studies. Dr Nasir is guest editor of very reputable journals such as the Journal of Environmental Management, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Resources Policy and Technical Forecasting and Social Change. Associate Professor Marta Gasparin Dr Marta Gasparin is Associate Professor in Innovation And Design Management at the university of Leicester. Her research explores how design and innovation emerges, how value is created, the role of the actors (objects, managers, designers) in the innovation and design processes. She draws on ideas from Science and Technology Studies and Actor-Network Theory. She is interested in design theory and the epistemological dimension of innovation, in particular the relations between design and decision, design and art, design and aesthetic, design and epistemology, design and technology. She is currently undertaking a ESRC New Investigator research in Italy, Central Asia, UK and Vietnam on slow design driven innovation to develop "glocalised" "slow business models", to theorise the design and innovation practices that reduce the exploitation of natural and human resources, whilst increasing product lifespans and driving innovation based on quality, local traditions, alternative forms of finance and sustainable values. |
