Keynote Speakers

Last updated: 01 October 2015

1. Prof. Garry D. Bruton, PhD Texas Christian University, Neeley School of Business (Fort Worth, Texas, USA) Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University. He is associate editor at the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. In addition, he serves on the editorial board of several other academic journals. Garry Bruton is former general editor at Journal of Management Studies, past president of the Asia Academy of Management and former editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives. He has published over 100 academic articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice.

   Prof. Jonathan Levie, PhD University of Strathclyde, Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship (Glagow, UK) Jonathan Levie is a Professor at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde, where he is Director of Knowledge Exchange. Professor Levie was Associate Coordinator of GEM in its founding year and has served as an elected member of the board of the Global Entrepreneurship Research Association (GERA). He is also a co-investigator at the UK’s Enterprise Research Centre. Professor Levie is currently a member of an EC DG Employment expert panel on entrepreneurship and social exclusion and an EC DG Education and Culture expert panel on data and indicators on entrepreneurial learning. His most recent articles have appeared in Journal of Management Studies, Research Policy, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics and Family Business Review, among others.

   Prof. Krzysztof Obłój, PhD University of Warsaw , Department of Strategic and International Management Koźmiński University, Department of Strategy (Warsaw, Poland) Krzysztof Obłój is a Full Professor of Management at the Faculty of Management of Warsaw University (Poland) as well as Koźmiński University (Warsaw, Poland). He is an advisor to the President of the Republic of Poland. His research has been published in journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Journal of East-West Business, Journal of Organizational Change Management, European Journal of International Management. A former president of European International Business Academy (EIBA).

   Prof. Aviv Shoham, PhD  University of Haifa, Department of Business Administration  (Haifa, Israel) Aviv Shoham (PhD, 1993, University of Oregon) is an Associate Professor of marketing and Head of the Business Administration Department at University of Haifa, Israel. He serves as a visiting professor at the Ljubljana University, Slovenia. His research focuses on international marketing management/strategy and international consumer behaviour. His research has been published in journals such as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Management International Review, the Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, the Journal of Business Research, the Journal of Advertising Research, International Business Review, the Journal of Applied Social Psychology, the European Journal of Marketing, European Journal of Management, and the Journal of Global Marketing.