Plenary Conference 10:15 - 11:55 

Professor Chi Wei Su is a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor at Qingdao University.

He is also the dean of the Capital Market Research Institute and the deputy director of the China Center for Financial Inclusion Research. He has been recognized as one of the world’s top 2% scientists in 2021 to 2024 by Stanford University, and was listed in the World’s Most Influential Researchers list (1% of the World, Clarivate). In addition, he was awarded the title of the International Engineering and Technology Institute Fellow. He is a guest editor of Energy Economics, Economic and Analysis Policy, Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting, Economic Research- Ekonomska Istrazivanja, Frontiers in Public Health, Environmental Science and Pollution, among others. His research interests focus on the theoretical and practical issues related to green finance, regional economic development, energy, carbon neutrality, and climate change. He has published more than 350 papers (WOS) as the first or corresponding author and dozens of highly cited papers. His work has been featured in various top-tier academic journals, including Energy Policy, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, Resources Policy, Energy, Urban Studies, Economic Modelling, International Review Economic and Finance.

Can artificial intelligence become an accelerator for achieving carbon neutrality?

 10:15 – 10:45

(China time zone 15:15)

Paolo D’Anselmi wrote Unknown Values and Stakeholders: The Pro-Business Outcome and the Role of Competition, Palgrave (2011 and 2017). He edited SMEs as the Unknown Stakeholder, Palgrave (2013) and Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility, Springer (2015). He is working on an edited volume for Palgrave (forthcoming 2025): The social responsibility of public administration: cases, models, nuances. In 2023 he published the article ‘Inequality as the Vertical partiality of Public Administration: Empirical Evidence from the Judiciary’ in the Minnesota Journal of Law & Inequality. He is also working on an authored book: Public law and public administration.

The Social Responsibility of Public Administration - Cases, Models, Nuances

 10:50 – 11:20

Dr Sander Schroevers is a top-rated cultural keynote speaker, and author of approximately eighty books on international communication. He serves as a Professor-of-practice at Bahria University, is a former Dean of a Chinese Business School, and was elected 2024 Business Lecturer of the year in Amsterdam. He has conducted longitudinal academic research on leadership practices in 150 countries across the globe. His eye-catching, humorous and upbeat keynotes have made him a first-choice request for audiences worldwide. Dr Sander speaks eight languages for professional use and developed the ‘mobile minor’ concept for Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, allowing students to complete a 30-credit minor entirely on their smartphones.

Decoding Local Leadership: analysing leadership styles in Romania’s top 10 expat destinations

11:25 – 11:55

Workshop International Approaches to Doctoral Studies 13:00 - 15:00 

Professor Dr Jamilah Hj Ahmad is attached to the School of Communication, Universiti Sains Malaysia, in Penang, Malaysia. She holds a PhD from Deakin University, Australia, a Master in Science from Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and a Degree from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). Malaysia. Jamilah also obtained her IPR Professional Master’s in Strategic Communication from Institute for Public Relations Organisation USA (2021), a Professional Diploma in Corporate Social Responsibility from the Academy of Responsible Management UK (2010) and a Certificate in Community Relations and Communication from the Public Relations Institute of South Africa (PRISA) in 2007. Jamilah is currently a visiting Professor at STIE Baktie Business School, Indonesia, since 2023, Invited speaker at Universitas Multimedia Indonesia Nasional, Indonesia, since 2021 and has been newly appointed as Communication Audit, Publicity Content And Research Consultant for Wuhan Centrio, Advertising Media Co. Ltd. China. Jamilah is also the Secretariat to Academic Professor Malaysia, Social Development and National Unity Cluster. Jamilah was previously a Visiting Scholar at Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia and Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey. Jamilah also actively shares her expertise as the editorial board and issue reviewer for more than 33 international and local journals. She has given presentations at conferences, graduated more than 50 postgrad students, and been appointed as an internal and external examiner locally and abroad. She has carried out more than 50 research projects and published more than 150 journal articles, including a research monograph, book chapters and a few books.

Navigating the Process of PhD. Journey: Malaysia Experience

 13:00 – 13:25

(Malaysia time zone 18:00)

Ekrem Tufan, Prof. Dr. PhD in Finance, was born in the historical city of Bergama (Pergamon). He has first received a bachelor's degree in Business Administration, then a master's degree in Finance and finally a doctorate in Finance from Anadolu University in Türkiye. He is currently working for Çanakkale Faculty of Applied Sciences at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University as Head of Health Management Department. He has had 30 years experience in academia. He is currently teaching Behavioral Finance and Behavioral Economics. He has numerous international publications on this subject. Two different publishing houses published his master’s and doctorate theses. The very first of Behavioral Finance Book in the Turkish market belongs to him.

 Pursuing a PhD in Türkiye: Suicide or Something Else?

 13:30 – 14:00

Dr. Magnús Árni Skjöld Magnússon is an Associate Professor at Bifröst University, where he has served as Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law and as Rector. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Iceland and multiple advanced degrees, including an M.Mus. in Composition from the Iceland University of the Arts and an MPhil in European Studies from the University of Cambridge. His experience includes advising NATO in Kabul and evaluating for the European Commission's Erasmus+ programme. Currently a Vice-Member of the Icelandic Parliament, Dr. Magnússon has published books and papers on Icelandic and international politics, Europeanization, the Icelandic Space Sector and regional studies.

 Doctoral Studies in Iceland

 14:05 – 14:30

(Island time zone 11:05)

Andre Kolodziejak grew up in the Netherlands as a son of a Polish World war II soldier and a Dutch mother.  He studied at Tilburg University and was a Robert Schuman Fellow at the Directorate for Research of the European Parliament in Luxembourg. He became a Professor of International Economics and Economics of European integration at the Catholic University in 1987, a position that he combined with being chief economist of the Bishopric of Roermond in the period 1988-1993. From 1997-2000 he also was a research fellow at the economics department of Frankfurt JW Goethe University. In 2001 he became an economist at the European Commission in Brussels where he also teaches at the campus of Maastricht University. In 2009 he was a visiting professor at Harvard University and New York City University teaching on the Economics of European integration, ageing and migration. He writes reports for the Martens Centre, the think tank of the European People’s Party in Brussels.

 Doctoral studies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany

 14:35 – 15:00

(The Netherlands time zone 13:35)