Agricultural Marketing
Dr. Tzong-Ru Lee
Professor, Department of Marketing, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Dr. Tzong-Ru Lee is a professor at the Department of Marketing, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan R.O.C. His research interests include SCM and decision making, agriculture innovation, Internet marketing and e-commerce, Logistics, Management science, Technology and Innovation, etc.. He serves as International Committee General Convener of CIBED, Fullbright Visiting Professor to USA, Vice Chairman of IAAS, international adviser for Small Businesses of EBRD, and conference lecturer of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). He has published 6 books and more than 225 articles in domestic and international journals. He also is the chairman of IAIC conferences from 2016 to 2020 and editor-in-chief of IJAITG.
ASEAN Family Business
Dr. Wee-Liang Tan
Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Dr Wee Liang Tan is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Singapore Management University (SMU).
Dr Wee Liang Tan joined SMU in 1999 as a member of the Core Planning Team of the then new university, SMU, when he developed the predecessor offices of the present day Office of Student Life and Office of Career Services. He joined academe beginning his career with the Faculty of Accountancy and Business Administration at the National University of Singapore in 1985. Prior to SMU, he had served as sub-dean, vice-dean and director of the Entrepreneurship Development Centre at NTU.
His current research interests lie in the domains of entrepreneurship, family business, international cooperation and corporate governance. His initial research was in law as he began his career as a law professor, when he had publications in the Malayan Law Review. He has since moved into entrepreneurship research. He has published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Family Business Review, Journal of High Technology Management Research, and Journal of Business Research. In addition to journal publications, he has co-authored Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development in Asia (2001) and edited a number of books. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Small Business Management, International Entrepreneurship and Management Research, and Small Business Research.
He has served as national expert for entrepreneurship and SMEs for APEC, Asian Productivity Organization, the Colombo Plan Secretariat and the Commonwealth Secretariat.
He holds degrees from The National University of Singapore (LLB), Cambridge University (LLM), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MSc) and Eindhoven University of Technology (PhD).
EU Family Business
Dr. Rania Labaki
Director, EDHEC Family Business Research Centre, France
Rania LABAKI, Ph.D. is associate professor of finance and family Business, director of EDHEC Family Business Research Centre, and family business fellow at Cornell University and Family Firm Institute.
Among her additional roles, she serves as board member of IFERA, family business advisor at Lansberg Gersick & Associates, and member of the advisory committee of Women in Family Business. She is also co-editor of Entrepreneurship Research Journal and member of the editorial board of FamilyBusiness.org and Revue Droit & Patrimoine.
A global speaker with presentations and lectures in more than 50 countries across continents, her insights have been featured in nearly 200 publications in academic and professional journals, books, and reports as well as in various international media outlets, such as Financial Times, Forbes India, Les Echos, El Pais, La Tercera, Radio France, and Tharawat.
Among her past appointments, she was academic expert of The Family Business Network International, director of the Financial and Wealth Management Master Program at the University of Bordeaux and director of the Family Business Global Executive MBA at EDHEC Business School.
Rania is recipient of numerous awards recognizing her contributions to the family business field, including the prestigious Barbara Hollander Award in 2020. Her current research, advising and teaching interests revolve around the interplay between family dynamics and decision-making, governance design and development of responsible owners.
Agribusiness Innovation
Dr. Maryem Cherni
Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management at Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle, France
Maryem Cherni, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Management at Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle (France), member of the research unit INTERACT. Responsible of an endowed chaire Alliance Agri Avenir launched in 2020. The direction of his current approach is to focus on agriculture and agribusiness. Her objective is to contribute to the research on agricultural entrepreneurship, particularly family entrepreneurship, and on the sustainability of family businesses. Maryem is also co-coordinator of the European chapter of IFAMA (International Food and Agrifood Management Association).
Plant Developmental Biology
Dr. Michel Hernould
Professor University of Bordeaux, France
Dr. Michel Hernould is the Professor at the University of Bordezux, France. He received his habilitation to supervise research and a university Doctorate in Life and Health Sciences in 2005.
Dr. Hernould received his Diploma d’Estudis Avançats (DEA) in Biology, Health “Regulation of Expression in Eukaryotes” at Bordeaux II University INSERM Unit 117, and his SVS Doctorate degree for Laboratory of Cellular Biology and Plant Biotechnology at Bordeaux II University. Finally, he also completed his Post-Doctoral Internship at Uppsala Genetic Center in Sweden.
RESEARCH TOPICS
Dr. Hernould developed the research programs that focused mainly in the field of Plant Developmental Biology. The programs concerned about the organogenesis of the fruit and the flower, with tomatoes being the main model. It aimed more particularly at the question of studying the relations between the genetic programs of the development of the flower and the fruit and the hormonal signaling. By this context, Dr. Hernould and his team could apprehend the regulation of the phenomena of degradation of proteins which occupy key positions in the developmental processes. Lastly, they also tested the potential involvement of these mechanisms in the regulation of plant-pathogen interactions.