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Sarah is the Assistant Vice-President, Innovation & Research Partnerships. She is a business development professional with extensive experience fostering innovation and developing strategic business operations. Sarah successfully created an innovation office at York University that provides a myriad of services across the university. She has created and grown a pan-university educational entrepreneurship programs, developed and manages a start-up incubator, as well as a 10,000 square foot innovation centre. In addition, Sarah is co-lead for the strategic development of innovation and entrepreneurship across the York University campus.

Prof. David Koli Essumang holds a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Environmental Chemistry from the Aalborg University of Denmark and a Master of Philosophy (M. Phil) in Chemistry, as well as B.Sc. in Chemistry and Diploma in Education from the University of Cape Coast. He had his secondary school education at Agona Nsaba Presbyterian Secondary School and St. Augustine’s College, Cape Coast for the ‘0’ and ‘A’ Level Certificates respectively. Published over 80 peer reviewed articles in over 50 different journals all over the world. At University of Cape Coast, he is the most cited on SCOPUS database and the second most cited by Google Scholar. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences which is on the flagship journals published by UCC. He is a reviewer for several Elsevier Journals. Ghana’s correspondent for World Library of Toxicology and Ghana’s representative of international Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) He has won some international awards (IUPAC Young Chemist Travelling Award, Royal Society of Chemistry, U. K. Research Grant). 2002: Demonstrator and Research Assistant 2011: Promoted to the rank of Associate Professor 2006: Promoted to the rank of Senior Lecturer 2013: Promoted to the rank of Full Professor

Dr. Jamal Mohammed is a Senior Lecturer in Economics in the Department of General/Liberal Studies with the Koforidua Technical University, Ghana. He is currently the Director of Research for the University. Dr Mohammed also serves as the Executive Director of the Africa Development Resources Research Institute (ADRRI), a research policy think tank based in Koforidua. His research specialisations are: Environmental and Natural Resources Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education, Economic Policy and Economic Modelling. Dr. Mohammed has published research articles in peer review journals. His research has span into: fuel wood commercialization, charcoal trade, climate change, Small and Medium Enterprises, Poverty, economics of education, entrepreneurship, and energy. He is also an entrepreneur and works on Network Marketing Techniques for entrepreneurial growth.

Dr. Yun Ii Go is Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering at Heriot-Watt University Malaysia. She is the Associate Dean of Science and Engineering Constituency and Associate Director of Academic Quality in School of Engineering & Physical Sciences. Prior to this, she served as Program Director for MSc programs and led the program accreditation by Energy Institute, ECUK. She is a certified competent person by Malaysia Sustainable Energy Development Authority, a certified energy manager under Association of Southeast Asian Nations Energy Management Scheme, a Professional Engineer awarded by Board of Engineers Malaysia and a Chartered Engineer awarded by IET, UK. Yun Ii has also successfully received well-recognized esteem and recognition among the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and Southeast Asia Nations as the APEC Engineer, International Professional Engineer and ASEAN Chartered Professional Engineer statuses. At the national level, she served as Head of Panel of Evaluator for Engineering Technology Accreditation Council, led various program accreditations for HEIs across the country. Yun Ii is passionate in green technology and sustainable development for resilient living. She leads various research projects from Energy Academy, Royal Academy of Engineering UK, Global Challenge Research Fund, Ministry of Education Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affair Taiwan etc; developed strong research partnership from UK, US, Southeast Asia and East Africa.

Dr Farhana Diana Deris is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She currently holds the portfolio as Manager of International Alliances at the office of UTM International. Her current administrative role covers, among others, the coordination of the university’s participation in alliances. She also holds executive roles for a number of alliances including as the Coordinator for the Asia Technological University Network, Secretary for the ASEAN Learning Network, and being the university’s Erasmus+ Institutional Coordinator, and SATU network coordinator. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Linguistics Association of Korea, and of the Editorial Board of the Society of Teaching English through Media based in Korea, and a member of the national Malaysian English Language Teaching Association, the Johor English Language Teacher’s Association, the Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM), the Indonesia-Malaysia Research Consortium (I’MRC).