Invited Speakers
Prof. Atour Taghipour, University of LeHavre, France
Atour TAGHIPOUR is an Associate professor and the head of an international management master program at the University of Le Havre in France. He holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Montreal in Canada. He received two masters’ degrees, one in Management, Logistics & Strategy and other in Industrial Engineering. He has more than ten years of experiences as a manager in automobile industries. He has published two books and many research papers in international journals. His areas of research are supply chain and operations management.
Prof. Vikas Kumar, University of the West, UK
Prof Vikas Kumar is
a Director of
Research and
Professor of
Operations and
Supply Chain
Management at
Bristol Business
School, University
of the West of
England, UK. He has
over a decade of
teaching and
research experience
and is fellow of
HEA. Prior to
joining UWE in 2013,
he was a Lecturer in
Management at Dublin
City University
Business School
(2009-2013). Since
2019, he is acting
as a Director of
Research.
He serves on the
editorial board of
around ten
international
journals and has
guest-edited several
special issues in
high impact
journals. He is also
a reviewer of more
than 15
international
journals including
ABS 4/4* and ABS 3*
journals.
Prof Kumar works
very closely with
industries and has
generated research
funding in the
excess of £1 million
from various
research agencies
such as Innovate UK,
EPSRC, British
Council, British
Academy, Newton
Fund, and Science
Foundation of
Ireland. He is
currently (2021 )
involved in two
projects funded by
the Royal Academy of
Engineering with
Jordan and another
project funded by
the British
Council/Newton Fund
with Thailand. He
has worked on
several
international
collaborative
projects with
researchers from
several UK
universities and
researchers from
Brazil, Vietnam,
Thailand, Indonesia,
India, Mexico,
Taiwan, Columbia,
Peru, Costa Rica and
Turkey.
Assoc. Prof. Babek Erdebilli, Yıldırım Beyazıt University, Turkey
Dr. Babek Erdebilli (B.D. Rouyendegh) is an Associate Professor at the Industrial Engineering Department, Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University (AYBU), Turkey. His work has been published in high-impact journals such as the International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, and Annals of Operations Research. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Turkish Operations Management and an Academic Editor at Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing. His main teaching and research interests include performance measurement, fuzzy sets, linear programming, and multi-criteria decision-making. He was awarded a grant by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and served as a Research Fellow at the University of Toronto, Canada (2011-2012) and a postdoc at Auburn University, USA (2015-2016), respectively. He is a member of INFORMS and MCDM.
Dr. Hesham O. Dinana, American University in Cairo, Egypt
Hesham Dinana has
over 30 years of
working experience
in strategy,
marketing,
information
technology, customer
care and hi-tech
manufacturing. In
addition, he has
more than 15 years
of teaching
experience both in
undergraduate and
graduate degree
levels.
His industry
experiences include;
healthcare, ICT,
real estate, food
and agribusiness,
oil and gas,
furniture, and FMCG.
Through his various
managerial positions
at Philips Medical
Systems-North
America and his
consultancy work in
the United States,
Europe and the
Middle East, his
experience and
expertise evolved to
cover a wide
spectrum of business
and technical areas
with hands-on
specialization in
strategic
management,
marketing,
healthcare planning,
corporate
governance, IT
management and CRM.
Dinana is an
assistant professor
of integrated
marketing
communications (IMC)
at The American
University in Cairo
and has taught MBA
and DBA courses in
strategic and
international
marketing at Arab
Academy for Science
and Technology.
Dinana has active
research agenda in
various marketing
areas with a focus
on digital
marketing,
entrepreneurship and
SME's marketing and
the use of the
internet-of-things
in marketing. He has
supervised many MBA
theses and DBA
dissertations in
those areas.
Dinana has given
numerous interactive
talks/training
courses to senior
and middle managers
and served as a
speaker at numerous
international
conferences focusing
on strategic and
international
management,
healthcare
marketing, and
information
technology
management
especially
e-marketing and
e-health. As the
vice president and
regional managing
director of a
leading
international
consulting group,
his consulting
projects' engagement
level span from
one-on-one executive
coaching to
national-level
strategy development
initiatives.
He is a certified
management
consultant (CMC) by
the UK Institute of
Management
Consultancy; a
certified board
director by the
Egyptian Institute
of Directors; a
certified balanced
corecard consultant;
a certified
management
simulation trainer
and is a member of
the American
Management
Association, Academy
of Management,
Association for
Service Managers,
American College of
Healthcare
Executives, Egyptian
Engineers Syndicate
and the Egyptian
Society for Quality
in Healthcare. As an
active member of his
community, Dinana
has served as a
board member at the
Egyptian Junior
Businessmen
Association, the
Management
Consultants
Association, and has
been advising the
Board of Children
Cancer Hospital
Foundation 57357 and
actively leading the
development of their
projects since 1998.
Senior Lecturer Reza Kiani Mavi, Edith Cowan University, Australia
Reza Kiani Mavi holds a PhD degree in operations management. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in supply chain and project management at the school of business and law, Edith cowan university, Australia. In addition to his usual teaching and research duties, he is involved in grant applications and has received several funds from industry including the Australian Institute of project management, the Department of transport, and iMOVE collaborative research centre. His research interests include analysing eco-innovation and eco-efficiency of supply chains, and project performance using mathematical models such as data envelopment analysis. Dr Reza Kiani Mavi has published over 70 papers in many prestigious journals such as Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Supply Chain Management, Transport Policy, Computers & Industrial Engineering. In addition to his service as the reviewer and editorial board member of Technological Forecasting & Social Change, and Management Decision, Reza is the associate editor for the Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS). He is also a member of the ethics committee in the Australasian Supply Chain Institute (ASCI).