Prof. (Dr.) Ajantha S. Dharmasiri
Professor in Management,
Postgraduate Institute of Management,
University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Nugegoda, SL

Prof. Ajantha Dharmasiri has a rare combination of being a Chartered Manager, Chartered HR Professional and a Chartered Electrical Engineer. He is acclaimed as a conference speaker, corporate trainer, strategy consultant, author and an academic. He was the Director and Chairman of the Board of Management of Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka. He is an Adjunct Professor at Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. He was the editor of the pioneering Sri Lankan Journal of Management (SLJM). Being a Commonwealth AMDISA Doctoral Fellow Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellow, he is also an independent director of several boards.

Dr. Christopher Russell,
Director of the Business School,
Canterbury Christ Church University, UK

Prior to joining Canterbury Christ Church, in February 2018, he was at Cardiff Met for fifteen years, where he rose from being a Lecturer in Information Systems to a Principal Lecturer and Head of Department for Accounting, Economics and Finance. Before that he worked in a variety of roles as a Graduate Trainee at Orange and France Télécom R&D and as a researcher at the University of Oulu in Finland. He studied at the universities of Oxford, Aston, Wales and Roehampton.
Key foci of his professional activity have been the development of students’ employability skills and the internationalization of higher education. Together with colleagues at partner education institutions and in industry in the UK, Egypt, South Africa, Ukraine and Vietnam. He has also co-authored CCCU’s Framework for Developing Enterprising and Professional Graduates and the International Strategy.