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Holding two PhD degrees, in Management and in African Studies, Renato Pereira is Professor at the Department of Marketing, Operations and General Management, Researcher at the Business Research Unit (BRU-Iscte) and at the Center of International Studies (CEI-Iscte) and he teaches in programs from Iscte Business School and from the School of Sociology and Public Policy.Specialized in Entrepreneurship, Innovation, International Business Management, and in Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Former resident-student at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the private foundation in charge of managing the international campus of the French capital city, elected by a college representing 5,000+ voters from 150+ nationalities.He has worked for different companies of the ICT cluster, including Outsystems, one of the initial Portuguese unicorns.
As Director of Inteli - Innovation Center, he has integrated the coordination structure of the Mobi.E consortium, responsible for the development of the 1st nation-wide network in the world for electric vehicle charging, and the board of directors of SGORME, the network operations management company.
For thirteen consecutive years, he was member of the Supervisory Board of Taguspark, the managing company of one of the biggest and most relevant science and technology facilities in Portugal.He was Advisor to the Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communications of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Portuguese Constitutional Governments.He has directed the Executive Master in Innovation Management at Iscte Executive Education and several master-level subjects at Iscte Business School and at the Master of African Studies.
As Associate Professor of UniversidadeAutónoma de Lisboa, he directed: the PhD program in Business Economics, the Geoeconomics Seminar of the PhD program in International Relations, the MSc program in Business Management, and the BSc program in Management, as well as several subjects from all three levels.
His paper Entrepreneurship role on dynamic capabilities: A longitudinal study on Brazilian and Portuguese firms, written in co-authorship, was short-listed for Best Paper Prize at the Special Conference of the Strategic Management Society, in 2011. His paper Resilient employees are creative employees, when the workplace forces them to be, published in co-authorship, was awarded with the Tudor Rickards and Susan Moger Creativity and Innovation Management Best Paper Award, reported to the year 2019.
He has supervised 5 post-docs, 17 doctorates and 168 master's.He has a long and extensive international academic experience, having taken visiting positions in universities from Angola, Brazil, France, Hungary, India, Mozambique, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan.

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Prof. Srikanta Patnaik is Director of I.I.M.T., Bhubaneswar, India. He has received his Ph. D. (Engineering) on Computational Intelligence from Jadavpur University, India in 1999. He has supervised more than 30 Ph. D. Theses and 100 Master theses in the area of Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, Soft Computing Applications and Re-Engineering. Dr. Patnaik has published around 100 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He is author of 2 text books and 55 edited volumes and few invited book chapters, published by leading international publisher like IEEE, Elsevier, Springer-Verlag, Kluwer Academic, etc.
Dr. SrikantaPatnaik is the Editors-in-Chief of International Journal of Information and Communication Technology and International Journal of Computational Vision and Robotics published from Inderscience Publishing House, England and, Editor of Journal of Information and Communication Convegence Engineering and Associate Editor of Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), which are all Scopus Index journals.
He is also Editors-in-Chief of Book Series on “Modeling and Optimization in Science and Technology” published from Springer, Germany and Advances in Computer and Electrical Engineering (ACEE) and Advances in Medical Technologies and Clinical Practice (AMTCP), published by IGI Global, USA.
He is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also Fellow of IETE, Life Member of ISTE, and CSI. Dr. Patnaik has visited more than 20 countries across the globe and visiting professors to some of the universities.

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His Research interest area is on TechnologyAdoption, Mobile Commerce and Electronic Commerce, Virtual Communities, Business Analytics and Supply Chain Management. He had received awards as Accredited Management Teacher, All India Management Association, New Delhi, 2010, NUS President Graduate Fellowship, 2005 and NUS Research Scholarship, Singapore, 2002 - 2006.

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Dr. Prabodh Kumar Mohanty has joined as the Director (HRD) of Odisha Hydro PowerCorporation Ltd. on 01.08.2017. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Mohanty was theVice President (Human Resource & Employees Relation) in OCL IRON AND STEEL LTD.(Amtek Group, a leading MNC). He brings with him more than 30 years of qualitativeexperience in HR discipline. He has earlier served in various senior managerial positions(HR) in both public and private sectors such as Coal India Ltd., Paradeep PhosphatesLtd., Engineers India Ltd., NINL and Jindal Stainless Ltd. He also served as a Visiting Professor (HRM) at XIMB and Director, IBS. Presently, he is associated with School ofManagement, NIT, Rourkela as adjunct Professor. He has been actively associated withprofessional bodies like NIPM, ISTD, AIMA and QCFI.Dr. Mohanty is a well-known trainer in HR, OB, Industrial Laws, CSR and Strategic HRM.He was the recipient of prestigious AIMA Young Managers Award, NIPM Gold Medal forexcellence in HR, Best Case Study Award on HR from Labour Commissioner,Government of Odisha.
He holds a Ph.D Degree in Management and is a Post Graduate in PMIR from UtkalUniversity and has LL.B. Degree and Diploma in Training and Development from ISTD,New Delhi. He has presented more than 20 papers in National and InternationalConferences and has published eighteen research papers/articles in leading Nationaland International Journals and a book on “Strategic HRM-A New Perspective for SteelIndustry".

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Mr. Bikram Keshari Swain, B tech (Mechanical), MBA (HR & Production), Post Diploma in Industrial Safety (PDIS), Bachelor of Law (LLB), Bachelor in Science(BSc.). He is a Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 45001 and an approved Safety Officer by Govt. of Odisha & Goa. He is a Guest faculty for safety training by Directorate of Factories & Boilers, Govt. of Odisha and a member of National Safety Council. He is also a trainer for the Industries: Lafarge cement, Birla Tyres, Tata Motors, IDL explosives, OCL Iron n Steel, United Beverage, Hindustan Coca-Cola beverage.

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Prof. Pramod Kumar Prusty is the Dean Academics of IIMT, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. He has received his Ph.D degree from Utkal University, Vani Vihar on Accounting and Finance based topic. He has supervised five Ph.D Scholars.He is the Author of 35 Research Articles and 3 Test Books i.e., Management Accounting, Cost Accounting and also Advanced Cost and Management Accounting which are useful for CA , CMA and MBA Students.He has supervised more than 300 Projects in different Disciplines. Prof. Prusty has Chaired as Key Note Speaker in many Conferences within the Country. During his Professional Career Prof.Prusty has performed his job as a successful Academician and Administrator around 40 years in different Govt., Govt Autonomous Colleges including Ravenshaw and also in different reputed Educational Institutions as Prof.and Dean of Commerce.

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Prof. (Dr) Kuruvilla Pandikattu SJ (born 1957), Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation for Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur and was Professor of Physics, Philosophy and Religion at Jnana Deepa , Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, India, since 1996. He has three Masters’ Degrees in Physics and Philosophy and two Doctorates in Philosophy and Theology to his credit. He has been actively involved in science-religion dialogue; transhumanism; viable human life-style and philosophical anthropology. Author/Editor of more than 45 books and 210 academic articles, Pandikattu is a Jesuit priest belonging to Dumka-Raiganj Province, India. He has been involved in organizing more than 25 national and international conferences on science-religion dialogue. He has visited more than 15 countries and attended more than 100 conferences on Philosophy, Theology and Science-Religion Dialogue. He had been on the editorial board of five philosophical/religious journals. His main topics of research are: Business Ethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, Anthropology, Eschatology and Transhumanism.

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Prof Dr Jagamohan Pattanayak is a prolific writer, poet and accomplished researcher. He has 8 research publications in National & State journals. He has been awarded PhD degree in participation and status change in development process, a study of tribal’s in koraput district, odisha. He was the research fellow of Tribal development Department, Ministry of welfare Govt of India. He is an illustrator in both Academics and Administration. With an exceptionally mentoring career leading to nearly four decades, he has held an administrative position as principal in Sri Jagannath Degree College, kaipadar khurda. Prof Pattanayak was conferred with prestigious award as best NSS programme officer, odisha for his selfless service to the society. Prof Pattanayak conferred with Law degree founded an institution to provide free legal service to the stranded people to establish their view. He has planted Twelve Thousands saplings over 7 acres of lands. He has attended 12 National Integration camps across India, he is being acclaimed by distinguished honour in social service being a counselor of IGNOW Odisha State Open University, he has been with students for continuous Learning.