Dr. Farhad Taghizadeh-Hesary is an associate professor of economics at Tokai University in Japan. In addition, he is a vice-president and co-founder of the International Society for Energy Transition Studies (ISETS) based in Australia.

He is a recipient of the Excellent Young Researcher (LEADER) status from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT).

Presently he is also a visiting professor at Keio University, Japan, a visiting professor at Chiang Mai University (Thailand), and a distinguished research fellow and external scientific member at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam).

Dr. Taghizadeh-Hesary has published a wide range of topics, including energy economics, energy policy, green finance, small and medium-sized enterprises finance, monetary policy, banking, Asian economics, and contemporary Japanese economy.

He is currently serving as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management and associate editor/board member of several other journals, including Economic Change and Restructuring, Energy Efficiency, Singapore Economic Review, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Risk Finance, China Financial Review International, Frontiers in Energy Research and, Vision-The Journal of Business Perspective.

He has guest-edited special issues for prestigious journals, including Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Finance Research Letters, Economic Analysis and Policy, Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Management, Climate Change Economics, Economic Change and Restructuring.

His research credits include authoring more than 200 academic journal papers and book chapters and editing 15 books published by major publishers, including Springer, Routledge, World Scientific, and the Asian Development Bank Institute

Kaveh Moghaddam is an Associate Professor of International Strategy and Entrepreneurship at University of Houston-Victoria (UHV). His primary research interests are Internationalization Strategies of Emerging Market Firms and International Entrepreneurship. He has published his research articles in several respected academic journals including Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, International Business Review and Journal of International Management.

He has received several awards and recognitions for his teaching, research, and service activities including 2017 UHV Research and Scholarly Activity Excellence Award, 2015 Bloomberg Businessweek UHV Teaching Award and 2012 Old Dominion University International Leadership Award.

Dr. Moghaddam has been involved in several professional organizations and has served as a reviewer and session chair for Academy of Management and Academy of International Business. Since 2017, he has been serving as one of the AIB-southeast chapter conference track chairs. He is currently serving on the “Journal of International Management” editorial board

Hamid Vahidnia is an assistan professor of management at Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University. He is interested in questions and phenomena in the intersection of entrepreneurship, strategy, and organization theory. Presently, Hamid is working on two streams of research. First, he is studying a number of corporate, institutional, and entrepreneurial mechanisms at work that may have a role in reducing vibrancy of entrepreneurship and in the fostering of inequality of entrepreneurial opportunity in developed and developing countries. Second, he is working on a research program that helps with further identifying the contextual, behavioral, and cognitive mechanisms that may facilitate the creation of new value by individuals, teams, and existing or emerging organizations. His professional experiences include working in several national-level projects in the management consultancy industry of Iran as well as in a number of entrepreneurial businesses in the United States, including in Silicon Valley

Sina Khoshsokhan is an Assistant Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. Sina received his Ph.D. in Strategy & Innovation from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Prior to joining the Leeds School, Sina worked with the Social Innovation on Drug Resistance (SIDR) program at Boston University as a post-doctoral associate to examine the factors affecting innovation in the antibiotics sector. In this capacity, he collaborated with Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Accelerator (CARB-X), the owner of the world’s largest portfolio of early development pipeline of new antibiotics, vaccines, and diagnostics.

Sina’s research explores intellectual property rights and their role in the division of innovative labor.  His research is acknowledged by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for Entrepreneurship, as a recipient of the 2018 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowship, and the Strategy Research Foundation, as a recipient of 2016 Dissertation Research Grant. Sina was also the recipient of the 2018 Academy of Management’s Robert Litschert award for the Best Student Paper submitted to the STR division