Category: 2021 Delegate
Miss Salsabila Kusuma
Salsabila Arini Kusuma currently serves as staff for international partnership at Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) Global Engagement, Surabaya, Indonesia. She is responsible for partnership initiation & innovation and short programs in STEM conducted by ITS Global Engagement with its international partners.
Mr Anderson Cruz
Professor at Metrópole Digital Institute at UFRN and coordinator of Internacionaliza RN Network by UFRN, he participated in creating the Business Incubator Inova Metrópole and the Tech Park Metrópole Digital, where he was director from 2014 to 2017 and from 2017 to 2020, respectively. He was President of the Potiguar Network of Incubators and Parks (REPIN) from 2017 to 2020. He holds a Doctorate (2012) and a Master’s (2008) from the Systems and Computing program at UFRN. His main areas of activity and interest are Technological Innovation and Fuzzy Theory.
Professor Sankar Sivarajah
Sankar Sivarajah is a Professor of Technology Management and Circular Economy and the Dean and Head of School of Management at University of Bradford.
He holds a PhD in Management Studies from Brunel University London, a MSc with Distinction in Management specialising in Entrepreneurship from Bayes Business School (previously known as Cass), City University London and a first-class BSc (Hons) in Business and Management specialising in Computer Sciences from Brunel University London.
His passion for research and teaching is interdisciplinary in nature focusing on the use of emerging digital technology for the betterment of society, be it in a business or government context. He has published over 50 scientific articles in leading peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research has featured in reputable media/trade publications such as The World Economic Forum, BBC Yorkshire, Computer Weekly and The Conversation.
To date, he has a successful track record as Principal and Co-investigator in over £3 million worth of Research and Innovation and consultancy projects funded by reputable funding bodies and commercial organisations. Some of the notable funders have been the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie), Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), Innovate UK/DEFRA and British Council focusing on projects addressing business and societal challenges surrounding themes such as AI Innovation Strategy Development, Smart Cities and Sustainable Sociteties.
He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the British Academy of Management (BAM).
Mrs Gayaneh Issyan
Gayaneh Issayan studied technical Physics at the Johannes Kepler University Linz. Since 2018, she is affiliated with the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Energy Research Group ASiC in thermochemical energy storage field. And currently, she is working on her PHD-thesis.
Mr Stuart Watson
Stuart Watson is a Lay member of council at the University of Bradford, a Non Executive Director at Clipper Logistics plc, runs the Strategy Unlocked consultancy and is Chairman of Gateways Educational Trust Limited. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and was a Partner with EY, the international accountancy firm.
Dr Solomon Mombeshora
Dr Solomon Mombeshora is a Quality Assurance Director at Women’s University in Africa. He holds a PhD and MPhil degrees in Social Anthropology from The University of Cambridge and a BSc Honours in Sociology from the University of Zimbabwe and, among others, a Certificate of Participation in the EU-funded Harmonisation of African Higher Education, Quality Assurance and Accreditation (HAQAA2) Training Course: IQA-4-Africa – From Pan-African Policy to Practice that was facilitated by DAAD. He has 26 years of consulting experience in environmental governance, policy and livelihoods. He has performed professional services in Botswana, Liberia, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe. He conducted his doctoral research in the Southern Highlands of Tanzania.
Dr Simon Mair
Simon is an ecological economist. His work focuses on understanding the current economy in order to build a better one. He is currently working on questions of productivity, energy, value and work in sustainable economies. At Bradford, Simon is Lecturer in Circular Economy and is program lead for the Master in Business Administration in Innovation, Enterprise and Circular Economy.
Before Bradford, Simon worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Surrey. Here he was researcher with the ESRC funded Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, and co-investigator on the ESRC funded “Powering Productivity”. He was also a teaching fellow at the University of Salford.
Simon is currently co-investigator on “Pedagogy Without Growth: An exploratory study of post-growth teaching in UK Business Schools”. Funded by the UK and Ireland Chapter of The UN Principles for Responsible Management Education, this project uses action research to explore teaching of degrowth and post-growth ideas in a management education context. He is also co-investigator on the NERC funded project ““Marine Spatial Planning Addressing Climate Effects (MSPACE)”. He leads a work package using input-output models to explore links between marine resources, climate change, and regional supply chains.
Simon’s academic work has been published in Ecological Economics, The Lancet Planetary Health, and The Journal of Cleaner Production, amongst others. In addition to his academic publications he has been published in outlets including BBC Future, New Socialist, and Current Affairs. He is currently UK country contact for the European Society of Ecological Economics.