Executive Committee Members

Dimitris Assimakopoulos is a Professor in Technology & Innovation Management at EM Lyon Business School; Scientific Co-Director of its Entrepreneurship & Innovation research centre; and the Founding Director of its Global DBA. Assimakopoulos serves as EDAMBA President; a faculty at the EIASM; also serves on the AACSB European Advisory Council. He has been an EU ‘Marie Curie’ PI and academic supervisor; visiting professor at Stanford University (USA), and several Universities in the UK and China; as well as an expert for the OECD. Research has focused on social and responsible innovation with interest in the management of R&D collaboration ; the origins and evolution of technological communities in regional clusters and industrial ecosystems; as well as talent management, new product development, quality and product safety performance. He has led and/or participated in several multi-million euros projects with world class organizations, such as CERN, Intel and Airbus. Dimitris has published 12 books and special issues, as well as more than 140 chapters, project reports and articles in scholarly and professional journals.

Dr John P. Ulhøi is Professor of OMT in the Department of Management at Aarhus University. He is Board Member of The Nordic Academy of Management. He is Associate Editor for SJM (Elsevier) and JGER (Springer). His interdisciplinary research has been sponsored by Danish, Nordic as well as European funding bodies. He has more than 20 years of experiences from directing and developing doctoral programs, including directing an inter-university doctoral program (2003-2018).

PhD Programme:
https://bss.au.dk/en/research/phd/programmes/management/

I have been working for Corvinus University of Budapest since 1997, my areas of expertise in teaching and research are corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility, as well as sustainable consumption and subjective well-being. I am committed to contribute to a responsible, healthy, sustainable, and mindful society.

Since 2006, I have been Programme Director of the Doctoral School of Business and Management at CUB, where I am specifically responsible for international relationships. In September 2012, I was first elected to be member of the Executive Committee of EDAMBA, where I am responsible for managing the Thesis competition and take the position of General Secretary.

Treasurer

Dr. M. May Seitanidi (FRSA)
Kent Business School, University of Kent UK
Email: mmayseitanidi@yahoo.com

Director, Master of Research in Management Sciences
François Collet is Associate Professor (with tenure) at ESADE Business School, Ramon Llull University. He is interested in the sociological and psychological mechanisms that shape the perception of value. He also investigates how networks affect individual performance and segregation. He is director of the Master of Research at ESADE. He holds a DPhil in Management from the University of Oxford. He teaches courses in organizational design and organizational theory.

Professor, Dr.oec. Tatjana Vasiļjeva is a Rector of RISEBA University of Applied Sciences. She is working at RISEBA since 2011. She’s a highly skilled and experienced professional, who has been working at SEB bank as a Head of IT for many years. T. Vasiļjeva holds a doctor degree in economics („Application of numeric methods in economics”); a „Latvian Bank Specialist Diploma” issued by Assosiation Commercial Banks of Latvia and Institute of Financial Services; a „Quality Systems Manager” diploma issued by Latvian Society for Quality. T. Vasiļjeva is an an individual member of The Latvian Information and Communications Technology Association (LIKTA); she is included in an international independent experts' database as an expert in European research and innovations.

T. Vasiljeva delivers study courses "Business and Information Technology strategic partnership", "Research methods", supervises master and doctoral theses in Business Management and Entrepreneurship fields. She participates in various international projects and her research interest lies in business digitalization and ICT usage for enterprises.

T. Vasiļjeva’s academic interests are connected with IT management aspects, software development management, use of e-learning methods and tools in education. She is regularly invited to participate in various international academic and research conferences as an editorial board member. She has published various academic articles about the results of her research.

T. Vasiļjeva is a keen court tennis player, she likes mountain-skiing, swimming, loves classical music and literature.

Doctoral programme: http://www.jointphd.eu/

Associate professor of Information Systems at ESAN Graduate School of Business. PhD in Business Administration (Arizona State University - W.P. Carey School of Business). Fulbright Program alumni. MBA, ESAN. BS Computer Science and Systems Engineer, Francisco Marroquin University (Guatemala).

Experience in software development, process improvement, project management and consulting. During his Ph.D. Program, worked research with Intel, US Army and peruvian government. Visiting professor at Universidad de Chile, ESPOL in Ecuador, UNITEC in Honduras and Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala.

Director of the Doctoral Program and the Academic Associate Director of the Business Analytics Program. He is mainly a researcher and instructor.

Doctoral programme.
https://www.esan.edu.pe/doctorado/

Emeritus Professor URL https://www.esade.edu/en/programmes/research-programmes/phd