Dr Dirk Meissner is Deputy Head of the Laboratory for Economics of Innovation at HSE and Academic Head of the international Master program “Governance Science, Technology and Innovation”. Dr Meissner has 20 years experience in research and teaching technology and innovation management and policy. He has strong background in science, technology and innovation for policy making and industrial management with special focus on Foresight and road mapping, science, technology and innovation policies, funding of research and priority setting. Prior to joining the HSE Dirk was responsible for technology and innovation policy at the presidential office of the Swiss Science and Technology Council. Dirk also has long experience in top-level consulting to key decision-makers in the industry as a management consultant for technology and innovation management with Arthur D. Little. He is and was member of international working groups on technology and innovation policy. Dirk represented Switzerland and currently the Russian Federation at the OECD Working Party on Technology and Innovation Policy.

John W. Goodell is a Professor in the College of Business of The University of Akron. His research interests focus on the impact on financial systems of national culture, and institutions. In 2011 he received the Stockholm School of Economics/Women in the Academy of International Business Award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research. His research has been highlighted in numerous media outlets including the Washington Post, PBS NewsHour, and Bloomberg Businessweek, as well as the blogs of the Columbia University and Duke University law schools. He is formerly Assistant Editor of the Journal of Teaching in International Business, and formerly served on the Board of the Southwestern Finance Association. Since completing his PhD from Kent State University in 2008, he has co-authored over eighty articles and book chapters. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s Research in International Business and Finance; as well as an Associate Editor for several leading finance journals.

Prof. Dr. Gaur is working on understanding the strategic adaptation of emerging economy firms during institutional transition. Prof. Dr. Gaur has also worked on issues related to the institutional distance between different governance environments, MNCs' ownership strategies, staffing strategies and entry mode choice in international investments. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UK and the USA. Some of his research has appeared in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business and Organization Research Methods. Prof. Dr. Gaur served as the President of the Asia Academy of Management for two terms from 2015 to 2019. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business.

William Arnold Barnett is the Oswald Distinguished Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of Kansas, Director of Advances in Monetary and Financial Measurement at the Center for Financial Stability (CFS) in New York City, and Director of the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference in Moscow. His current work is in the fields of chaos, bifurcation, and nonlinear dynamics in socioeconomic contexts, econometric modelling of consumption and production, and the study of the aggregation problem and the challenges of measurement in economics, especially in financial and monetary economics. His MIT Press book, Getting It Wrong, won the American Publisher’s Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, and his book with Nobel Laureate, Paul Samuelson, Inside the Economist’s Mind, has been translated into six languages. He is Founder and was First President of the Society for Economic Measurement, Founding Editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and of the Emerald Group Publishing monograph series, International Symposia in Economic Theory and Econometrics, and originator of the Divisia monetary aggregates and the "Barnett critique." He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Charter Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics, Charter Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement, Fellow of the World Innovation Foundation, Fellow of the TANDO international policy institute, Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise, and Honorary Professor at Henan University in Kaifeng, China. Special issues of the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Reviews, and the Journal of Financial Stability have been published in his honor. He is ranked among the top 2% of the world's economists in RePEc.

Rose Liao is an associate professor of finance in the department of Finance and Economics at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on international finance and empirical corporate finance. Her most recent work explores female representation on boards of directors around the world, motives for cross-border mergers and acquisitions, global investor relations activities, and motives of corporate inversions. Her research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science, among others. Rose currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Emerging Markets Review, a premier journal for publishing high impact theoretical and empirical studies in emerging markets finance. She is also a subject editor at the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and Journal of Multinational Financial Management. In the past she has served as a member of the program committees for the American Finance Association Meetings, the Western Finance Association Meetings, and the Financial Management Association Meetings.

Ioannis Kyriakou works on quantitative methods and the development of numerical techniques with applications in the fields of operations research and management science, finance, actuarial science and sector studies, including derivatives, risk management, shipping, commodities, pension product design and communication, stock returns forecasting and machine learning. His recent research contributions have appeared in Operations Research, European Journal of Operational Research, Mathematics of Operations Research, Tourism Management, Transportation Research Parts A and E, Review of Finance, European Financial Management, and others. He currently serves as Editor for the International Journal of Finance & Economics and an Associate Editor for the Annals of Actuarial Science. He studied his PhD in Finance at City, following his MSc in Risk and Stochastics at LSE, and BSc in Actuarial Science at City. He holds a Diploma in Actuarial Techniques.

Sofia Johan, Ph.D., earned her first degree in Law from the University of Liverpool and her LLM in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, both in England. After working for several years in the financial markets, she returned to academia and earned her Ph.D. in Law and Economics from Tilburg University in The Netherlands. Her areas of expertise and research interest include legal and ethical issues in financial markets, entrepreneurial finance, and regulation of financial markets around the world. Dr. Johan is the author of three books and more than 72 articles in refereed journals. Her research has appeared in such leading journals as Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Banking and Finance and Oxford Review of Economics. She is a co-editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance and an associate editor of the British Journal of Management. She is also Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance at University of Aberdeen and has been a visiting fellow at the University of New South Wales and the University of Cambridge. She is also a PADI licensed scuba diver.

Domingo Ribeiro-Soriano is a Professor of Business Administration. As a researcher, he has published more than 100 papers in SSCI-ranked journals. Throughout his career, he has edited and contributed to books, journals, and conferences and has delivered keynote speeches at international conferences. Currently, he is the Senior Associate Editor at Journal of Business Research and Associate Editor for Special Issues at Technological Forecasting and Social Change. He has also led several EU-funded projects, and contracts with private companies. Before starting his career in academia, he worked as a consultant at EY (formerly Ernst & Young).