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Bernard Bell

University of North Carolina, USA

 B. Bell is the executive director of the Shuford Program in Entrepreneurship in the UNC College of Arts and Sciences. He has worked is an entrepreneur-in-residence in the Minor in Entrepreneurship. In this role, Bell has been responsible for teaching, mentoring and coaching students with a special emphasis on social entrepreneurship ventures. He is also a member of the Dean’s Working Group for the Minor in Entrepreneurship, where he has served for several years, including prior to joining the entrepreneurial faculty for the program. The Dean’s Working Group helps the dean set the strategic direction for the minor and work with alumni and friends of the University to generate and manage resources...

Jurgen Brauer

Augusta University, USA

 J. Brauer was born in Berlin, Germany. An internationally renowned scholar in the field of conflict, peace, and security economics, he has been a consultant to numerous governments, international organizations, and nonprofit organizations. He has spent most of his academic career as a business school professor in the USA and has held visiting professorships in Australia, Asia, Europe, and South America. He and his Colombian-born wife also own a consulting business serving clients from the private, public, and nonprofit sectors.

Darek M. Haftor

Uppsala University, Sweden

 D. M. Haftor is professor of Information Systems, serving both at Linnaeus University and at Uppsala University, Sweden. He is the co-founder and first Director of the "Gunilla Bradley Center for Digital Business", a twenty-people strong research network inquiring into the conditions of digital business practices. Dr. Haftor is an expert on digital business development, as enabled by information and its digital technologies; he provides regular advice to various business and nonprofit organizations and is a frequent guest speaker at industrial fairs...

Olov Isaksson

Stockholm Business School, Sweden

 O. Isaksson is Associate Professor of Operations Management at Stockholm Business School, Stockholm University. His primary research topics relate to operations management and its intersection with retail and healthcare. With a special interest in data analytics, Olov uses data and empirical approaches to investigate how firms can make better operational decisions.
Olov earned his Ph.D. from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, his Diplôme D'Ingénieur in General Engineering from Ecole Centrale Paris and his Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from Linköping University. Before his academic career, he worked as a project manager in different operations and supply chain management capacities at Louis Vuitton, France and Henkel, Germany.