Dolly Predović is the founder and CEO of Career Paths, an Italian consulting company operating in the field of education.

After 20 years as Professor of Corporate Finance at Bocconi University, she ended her academic career as the Director of the Master programe in Corporate Finance. In 1990 she was instrumental in the planning and realization of Bocconi University’s first international MBA, which then opened the doors to the internationalization of the university. She later held the positions of Director of the International Executive Education Division and Professor of Corporate Finance and Valuation for the MBA. She has published a number of papers and books, in particular on topics of valuation with a focus on brand valuation.

Robert E. Kennedy is the former Dean at Nanyang Business School and assumed office on January 1, 2018. He came to NTU from the Ivey Business School in Canada, where he was Dean and the Tapp Chaired Professor since 2013. Under his leadership, the school increased research output by more than 30% per faculty member and improved its global rankings. The school was twice ranked as the top “international” program in the BusinessWeek MBA rankings (2014 and 2015), and improved its FT Research rank from 44th to 26th. Kennedy is a well-known scholar, speaker, and educator. His research focuses on business strategy and policy issues in developing countries and has been widely published in leading economics and strategy journals. He has authored more than 120 articles, chapters, notes, and case studies on emerging market issues. From 2002-2016, his teaching materials were used at every one of Business Week’s top 25 U.S. business schools. Prior to Ivey, Kennedy was the Tom Lantos Professor of Business Administration at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business – where he led the school’s international programs. He was also Executive Director of the William Davidson Institute. Prior to Ross, he was an Assistant, and then an Associate, Professor at Harvard Business School. Prior to his academic career, Kennedy worked as both a strategy consultant (late 1980s), and as a partner in a Private Equity firm in Poland (1991 – 1995). He holds BA degrees in Economics and Political Science from Stanford University, an MSM in Management from MIT, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University.

After her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Iva graduated from Cornell University. She gained great experience in the financial sector by working at Wachovia Bank, Citi Group, and Goldman Sachs in New York. She currently holds the position of Managing director at Goldman Sachs in New York. She is a board member of the Grace Institute of New York, whose organization aims to provide free training for women to enter the job market. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, over 100,000 women at Grace Institute have learned skills needed to successfully enter the workforce.

Konstantina Tsigkou, PhD is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Department of Chemical Engineering at University of Patras, while she additionally teaches at the Department of Chemical engineering, at University of Western Macedonia (2021-2022). She holds a BSc in Chemistry (University of Patras, 2014), an MSc in Green Chemistry and Clean Technologies (University of Patras, 2016) and a PhD on Chemical Engineering (University of Patras, 2021). The waste/wastewater valorization via the anaerobic digestion process and the production of added-value products through sustainable approaches in the context of circular economy are her main research fields. She has participated in more than 20 biotechnology and waste/wastewater treatment/valorization conferences, where she was awarded twice, while she is a co-author in 28 scientific papers and 1 patent. Finally, she has participated in 6 EU research projects mainly related to the implementation of circular economy model on waste and wastewater valorization, co-funded by EU and national sources.

Dr Adrian Solomon is the Director of Helixconnect Europe. He is an experienced knowledge & technology transfer manager with expertise in environmentally sustainable and resilient organizations and digital transformation. Higher education reforms, the development of regional innovation ecosystems and digitalization are among the core capacities from his current portfolio. So far, he has successfully acquired and managed +31 projects amounting to more than 31.2 million Euros. In the past he has served as the Chairman of the External Grants Committee at the Triple Helix Association (University of Stanford-initiated technology transfer association); Consultant at Drees & Sommer; Project manager at the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (United Kingdom), a hub focusing on environmental sustainability technology commercialization; Associate Professor in Digital Transformation and Sustainability at the University of Sheffield; Deputy Director of the South East European Research Centre; and Co-founder of a World Bank Working Group on Law and Technology.