48th ANPAD Annual Meeting
EnANPAD 2024

Oana Branzei is the Paul MacPherson Chair in Strategic Leadership and Professor of Strategy and Sustainability at the Ivey Business School at Western University in Canada. She is also the founding Director of the HBA Sustainability Certificate program and the Master of Science Graduate Diploma in Sustainability; the founder, convener and host of PhD Sustainability Academy, an annual event of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability; and co-founder of the recently inaugurated virtual-based and accessible Spring Institute. Ivey’s champion for the United Nation’s Principles for Responsible Education for a decade (until 2019).

Professor Branzei, a Western Faculty Scholar (2018-2020) currently cross-appointed with Western University’s Centre for Climate Change, Sustainable Livelihoods and Health, vice chairs the Western University Research Board, represents Ivey on Western’s Senate, is an Advisory Board member for the Africa Institute, and sits on the Steering Committee for Western’s Carbon Solutions Fund.

Dr. Cheng obtained her PhD degree in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Her research is dedicated to helping employees achieve and maintain well-being in the workplace. This includes understanding how and when workplace anxiety can enhance performance, recovering from daily job demands, and maintaining proactivity in the workplace. She has published in journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Her research has been featured in leading media sources such as The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, The New York Times, and Harvard Business Review.

Chantale Mailhot, M.Sc., Ph.D., is Full Professor in the Department of Management of HEC Montréal. She is a member of the Center for research on social innovations(CRISES) and the Pôle en gestion des entreprises sociales IDEOS. Her research focuses on social transformation from the perspective of practice. She is interested in the management of organizations that work towards social transformation, practices and the effects of these practices.

Dr. Christiane Molina is Research Professor in the Strategy and Leadership Department at EGADE Business School. She currently teaches corporate sustainability to MBA students and courses on strategic planning, innovation and sustainability, and planning models and processes at the State of Mexico Campus. She is a member of the SNI, (Sistema Nacional de Investigadores), Candidate level, Conacyt, and an active member of the Academy of Management in the divisions of international business and organization and administration. Dr. Molina’s research has been published in Business & Society magazine, and in Advances of International Management.

Associate Professor at DTU Construct and Principal Investigator of an ERC Consolidator project (REBOUNDLESS). Works within the fields of Sustainable Design, Rebound Effects, and Circular Economy. Strong research and innovation activities demonstrated in 20+ national and international projects, carried out in close collaboration with industry. Member of the Advisory Board of the Design Society. Several high-impact publications, international recognition with impressive industrial impact. 

Professor of Finance and Associated Dean for Academic Strategy. He has also been a professor at Harvard University, Yale University, the University of Amsterdam, EDHEC, and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. His lifetime academic citations place him among the three most widely cited business authors in the world according to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and Thomson Scientific’s Essential Science indicators. His research interests and main publications are in corporate finance, corporate governance, family firms, law and finance, regulation of financial markets and banks, state-owned enterprises, and legal reform and deregulation.

Sociologist, Scientific Researcher at the Center for African Studies at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (CEA/UEM), Mozambique. PhD in Sociology and Political Science (2022) and Master in Political Sociology (2015) from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil. He has experience in Sociology, with an emphasis on General Sociology. As a scientific researcher he has research interests in areas related to issues of political behavior, political participation, gender relations, human rights, HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health in general, social justice, public policies, rural sociology and development. She researches and collaborates in research on gender and women's participation in peace and security issues, on women's presence in public spaces, on sexual and reproductive health among adolescents and young people. For her doctorate she researched rural and agricultural development with a focus on small-scale farming in Development Corridors. She is currently part of the Mozambican team in the research project "Contribution(s) of the Non-Profit Sector to African Economies-with a specific focus on the creation of dignified and fulfilling work for young people in Africa", involving 17 countries and funded by the Mastercard Foundation. 

Jacobo Gómez is a professor in the Accounting Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, within the Program of Excellence for University Teaching Staff (PRICIT). He holds a PhD in Financial Economics and Accounting from the University of Vigo and a degree in Business Administration and Management from the same university. His areas of interest include research in accounting and management control, as well as the uses of accounting information management. Jacobo has published his work in several journals, as well as being funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation, Fundación Ramón Areces, Santander Financial Institute, AECA, Fundación COTEC para la Innovación and FUNCAS, among others. He is currently editor of the Revista Española de Financiación y Contabilidad / Spanish Journal of Finance and Accounting.

Luca Cian is a professor at the Darden School of Business. When he lived in Italy, the Italian Association of Psychology awarded his doctoral dissertation "Best Dissertation" in his division. The Council of Italian University Rectors, the Italian National Research Council, and the Italian Minister of Youth recognized him as one of the best young researchers in Italy. Luca was at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business from 2010 to 2015 and has moved to the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business since then.

Paulo holds a joint appointment between the Department of Engineering Science and Saïd Business School. His primary fields of expertise are entrepreneurship, sustainable development, systems change, and innovation management.

The emphasis of his work is on transforming unjust systems through entrepreneurship. Outside academia, he worked as an entrepreneur and as a consultant to large companies, governments, and intergovernmental organizations. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge, as a Gates Scholar.

Dr. Prashant Palvia is Joe Rosenthal Excellence Professor in the Bryan School of Business & Economics at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA. Prior to 39 years in academics, he had 9 years of industry experience. He received his Ph.D., MBA, and MS from the University of Minnesota and BS from the University of Delhi, India. Prof. Palvia received UNCG’s senior research excellence award in 2005.  He has worked extensively in the field of Global Information Technology Management (GITM). He founded the Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA).

Professor Palvia is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Global Information Technology Management, Associate Editor for Information & Management and is on the editorial board of several journals. His research interests include global information technology management, healthcare IT, security and privacy, virtual teams, societal issues of IT, and media choice theory.

Professor of Business Studies. His research focus subsidiaries in multinational enterprises. With a theoretical base in network theory his research concentrates on subsidiary evolution, knowledge development and transfer, and strategy and management in the multinational enterprise. He is further Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, and Senior Editor of Journal of World Business. He primarily teaches in the programs International Business Management och International Marketing.