Mike Wright, late Professor of Entrepreneurship, Imperial College London,Geoffrey T. Wood, DanCap Private Equity Chair and Professor, Western University,Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Professor of International Business and Strategy, Northeastern University,Pei Sun, Chair of International Business, University of Manchester,Ilya Okhmatovskiy, Associate Professor, Universidade Nova de Lisboa,Anna Grosman, Associate Professor, Loughborough University

Mike Wright (1952-2019) was Professor of Entrepreneurship at Imperial College Business School. He held an honorary doctorate from the University of Ghent, was a visiting professor at ETH Zurich and INSEAD, and a member of the BCVA's Advisory Board. Wright was also Director of the Centre for Management Buy-out Research, the first centre to be established devoted to the study of private equity and buyouts, which was founded in March 1986 at the Nottingham University. Wright has published around 1300 pieces of work according to Google Scholar, including 40 books and around 400 articles in scholarly journals on entrepreneurship, management buy-outs, venture capital, emerging markets, and strategy. Wright was a Fellow of the British Academy, Academy of Social Sciences and The British Academy of Management. Wright made an outstanding contribution to the business and management research community and was one of Britain's best-known academics.

Geoffrey T. Wood is DanCap Private Equity Chair and Head of DAN Management at Western University in Canada, and Visiting Professor at Trinity College, Dublin. Previously, he served as Dean and Professor of International Business, at Essex Business School and before then as Professor of International Business at Warwick Business School, UK. He has authored/co-authored/edited eighteen books, and over one hundred and eighty articles in peer-reviewed journals. He has an h-index of 41, and an i10-index of 163. He holds honorary positions at Griffith and Monash University in Australia. Geoff's research interests centre on the relationship between institutional setting, corporate governance, firm finance, and firm level work and employment relations. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, and a Fellow of the British Academy of Management, and is also in receipt of an Honorary Doctorate in economics from Aristotle University, Greece.


Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra is a Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University and co-editor of Global Strategy Journal. He studies the internationalization of firms, with a special interest in emerging market multinationals; capability upgrading, particularly technological capabilities; and governance issues, focusing on state ownership and corruption in international business. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Management Division at the Academy of Management. He has served as a consultant on global strategy to firms and governments in emerging markets. He received an honorary doctorate from Copenhagen Business School and was awarded a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pei Sun holds Chair of International Business at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK. He received his PhD in business economics and strategy from Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. His research interests include corporate governance and nonmarket strategy, with a particular focus on how foreign and domestic firms manage and exploit institutional complexity and changes in emerging economies and how their strategies and corporate governance arrangements impact upon firm outcomes, stakeholders, and society at large. He has published papers in renowned academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Journal of Management Studies. He serves as a senior editor of Asia Pacific Journal of Management and an associate editor of British Journal of Management.


Ilya Okhmatovskiy is Associate Professor at Nova School of Business and Economics, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Previously he taught at McGill University and at the University of Southern California, where he obtained a Ph.D. degree in Business Administration. His research interests focus on corporate governance and business-government relations, mostly in the context of emerging economies. He has published in Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and other journals. Ilya is a member of the Editorial Boards at Corporate Governance: An International Review and Strategic Organization. He served as Guest Editor for the Journal of World Business and currently serves as Senior Editor for Management and Organization Review.

Anna Grosman is Reader in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University London. Her research falls at the intersection of corporate governance, corporate finance, and international business, with special emphasis on contemporary state capitalism, corporate governance issues of state-affiliated organizations, and Russia. She has published on state capitalism and corporate governance in journals such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Economic Modelling, among others. Anna is also on the editorial boards of the Journal of World Business and Global Strategy Journal. Prior to her academic career, she worked for the US multinational Georgia-Pacific as a Director of Corporate Strategy and M&A for 4 years. Before that engagement, she worked for six years in investment banking and corporate finance for CIBC World Markets, Citigroup, and Close Brothers.

Matthew M. C. Allen is Professor of International Business and Strategy, and Head of the Strategy, Operations and Entrepreneurship Group, Essex Business School, UK.

Daniel J. D'Amico is the Associate Director at the Political Theory Project and lecturer in economics at Brown University.

Maciej Baltowski is Professor of Economics, the Head of the Department of Economic and Regional Policy at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.

Christine Bischoff is a Researcher in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits University).

Robert Boyer is a French economist trained at Ecole Polytechnique, Sciences-Po Paris and Paris 1 University.

Alan Brejnholt is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London.

John Campbell is the Class of 1925 Professor and Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College.

Richard W. Carney is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS).

Rohit Chandra is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi and a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi.

Elizabeth Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of History and the College at the University of Chicago, and a Fellow of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Andrea Colli is Professor of Business History at Bocconi University, Milan.

Douglas Cumming is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida.

Daniel J. D'Amico is the Associate Director at the Political Theory Project and lecturer in economics at Brown University.

Rodrigo B. DeMello is an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Girard School of Business, Merrimack College, in Massachusetts, USA.

Wilfred Dolfsma is Professor and Chairholder of Business Management & Organisation at Wageningen University.

Jiyang Dong is an assistant professor in entrepreneurship and strategy at Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Business.

Saul Estrin is a Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy and the founding Head of the Department of Management at LSE.

James Foreman-Peck is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cardiff University.

Renfei Gao is a Presidential Fellow at Alliance Manchester Business School, the University of Manchester.

Aleksandra Gregorič is Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy and Innovation, Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

Amanda M. Girth is Associate Professor of Public Affairs, Director of Washington Studies, and Enarson Fellow at the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at The Ohio State University.

Xia Han is a Lecturer in International Business at the University of Manchester.

Hiroaki Hayashi is Professor of Economics at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan.

Kirk Helliker is a research professor in the Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology at Rhodes University in South Africa, as well as founder and director of the Unit of Zimbabwean Studies in the department.

Robert Hockett is Edward Cornell Professor of Law, Cornell University. He is also Adjunct Professor of Finance, Georgetown McDonough School of Business.

Xiuping Hua is Professor of Finance at Nottingham University Business School China, Director of UNNC-NFTZ Blockchain Laboratory, and Executive Deputy Director of Centre for New Structural Economics at University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

Barclay E. James is Associate Professor of International Business at St. Mary's University's Greehey School of Business where he has been a faculty member since 2018.

Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business.

Matthew R. Keller is an Associate Professor at the Southern Methodist University, USA.

Gilton Klerck is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology & Industrial Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa, an advocate of the High Court, and a research associate at the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit in the department.

Piotr Kozarzewski is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin.

Sergio G. Lazzarini is the Chafi Haddad Professor of Management at Insper Institute of Education and Research.

Professor Yong-Shik Lee is a lawyer, economist, and international relations scholar with internationally recognized authority in law and development and international trade law. He is currently Director and Professorial Fellow of the Law and Development Institute and Visiting Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law.

Cheng Li is a Ph.D. candidate in General Management and International Business at the Ivey Business School, Western University, Canada.

Xia (Summer) Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in finance from the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of Oklahoma.

Xiaohui Liu is Professor of International Business at the Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.

Xiaowei Rose Luo is The Rudolf and Valeria Maag Professor in Entrepreneurship in the area of entrepreneurship and family business, INSEAD, France.

Pedro Makhoul is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Strategy group at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Łukasz Mamica is an Associate Professor and the Head of Department of Public Economics, Cracow University of Economics.

Bill Megginson is Professor and Price Chair in Finance at the University of Oklahoma's Michael F. Price College of Business and Visiting Professor at the University of International Business & Economics (Beijing).

Tomasz Mickiewicz is 50th Anniversary Professor of Economics at Aston Business School, Birmingham, UK.

Anupriya Misra is an applied economist currently working as a Quantitative Analyst for the UK Government.

Satoshi Mizobata is Professor at the Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan.

Aldo Musacchio is a Professor of Management and Economics at the Brandeis International Business School and a Faculty Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Saule T. Omarova is the Beth and Marc Goldberg Professor of Law and Director of the Jack Clarke Program on the Law and Regulation of Financial Institutions and Markets at Cornell University.

Sophus A. Reinert is Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and an Affiliate Professor of History at Harvard University.

Jukka Rintamäki is a Lecturer at the Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London.

Krislert Samphantharak is Associate Professsor at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC, San Diego.

Gerhard Schnyder is a Professor of International Management & Political Economy at Loughborough University London and a Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

Vania Sena works in the area of innovation and business analytics. She is a Professor in Entrepreneurship and Management Science at the University of Essex.

Yusuf Sidani is Professor of Leadership and Business Ethics at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut (AUB).

Emily Simmons is Operations Manager for Remerge, a non-profit advancing reconciliation in the historic Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, GA.

Liudmyla Svystunova is a Visiting Fellow in International Management at Loughborough University London, UK.

Paul M. Vaaler is Professor and John and Bruce Mooty Chair in Law & Business at the University of Minnesota's Law School and Carlson School of Management where he has been a faculty member since 2007.

Lucien van der Walt is professor of Industrial and Economic Sociology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and director of the Neil Aggett Labour Studies Unit in the department.

Heather Whiteside is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and Fellow at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada.

Minjie Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Windsor Odette School of Business.