2026 Responsible Research Summit

A graduate of Sciences Po Paris and HEC Paris, earned his PhD in management from Paris Dauphine University

He has held leadership positions and academic appointments at business schools in Europe and Asia. He has also co-founded and served on the boards of several international organisations, including PRME, CEIBS, GRLI, HigherEd and ITP, contributing significantly to the development of global management education.

His honours include Shanghai’s Magnolia Award and the French National Order of the Légion d’honneur. A recognised author, he wrote Management Education and the Rise of Uncertainty of Global Business, published by Oxford University Press. He holds fellowships at respected institutes and has been awarded Doctorates Honoris Causa from Koźmiński University and ESCP Business School.

Lily Bi is President and CEO of AACSB International, the world’s largest business school association, representing over 2,000 institutions across more than 100 countries. A global leader with 30+ years of experience, she is recognized for driving bold strategies, transformative change, and cross-sector innovation on a global scale.
 
Before joining AACSB, Lily held senior executive roles across the U.S., Japan, Singapore, and China, leading high-impact initiatives in global growth, audit, technology, and stakeholder engagement. She is widely respected for her influence in global standard-setting and advancing professional credentialing.
 
At AACSB, Lily is leading a sweeping transformation of standards-setting, accreditation, governance, and membership engagement—redefining the role of business schools in a rapidly evolving world. Her work champions quality, inclusivity, and the broader societal impact of business education.
 
Lily holds a Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas, and both a Master’s and bachelor’s degree in computer science from China.

Head of the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME)

A long-standing leader within the PRME community, he brings deep expertise in aligning responsible management education with business practice to advance the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and beyond. His career reflects a sustained commitment to positioning business education as a force for good, translating the Principles of PRME into meaningful action across research, partnerships, teaching, and practice. Dr. Steingard spent over 25 years at Saint Joseph’s University, where he served on the faculty of the Leadership, Ethics, and Organizational Sustainability programme and as Director of the SDG Dashboard initiative at the Haub School of Business. He currently leads the AI and Research & Development (AIRD) Implementation Team under the Higher Education Sustainability Initiative (UN HESI), as part of the Futures of Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence Action Group. His teaching and research focus on ethical leadership and the transformative role of business education in advancing social justice, sustainability, and human rights. His recent work explores the use of Artificial Intelligence to assess social and environmental impact, including the development of AI tools to measure SDG impact across institutions, research outputs, and academic journals. This work has been published in AI & Society, Journal of Social Impact in Business Research, Business and Society Review, and Learned Publishing. As Head of PRME, Dr. Steingard guides the initiative’s strategic direction, leads the PRME Secretariat team, strengthens global partnerships, and advances PRME’s mission worldwide. 

Chair in International Business at the University of Birmingham, UK

She is a leading advocate for responsible management research and education, with a strong track record in advancing responsible research practices, education, and knowledge exchange across international contexts. Prof. Chidlow serves as Chair of the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) global network and has previously served two terms on the RRBM Working Board. She is also a former secondee to the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), where she worked on policy development through research and PRME Working Groups and on global engagement. She continues to contribute to PRME’s global forums and Responsible Management Education Week. In addition, she is the Responsible Management Research and Education Lead for the British Academy of Management’s International Business/International Management Shared Interest Group. She has a proven record of institutional leadership, doctoral supervision, international accreditation (e.g., AACSB, EFMD/EQUIS, AMBA), and impactful industry collaborations and consultancy. She has served in multiple leadership roles in leading professional bodies in her field (e.g., EIBA, AIB, AIB-UK&I) and has received several awards for her leadership and service contributions. Her research has been published in leading international journals and is widely recognised among her peers. She has been invited to present her work at leading international conferences and impact events, helping to shape the global responsible research agenda. She co-founded the Academy of International Business Research Methods Shared Interest Group, attracting global participation, and founded two major international symposia at the University of Birmingham — the Annual Strategy & International Business Symposium and the Responsible Research Methods Symposium. Her research focuses on internationalisation, strategic location decisions, and the methodological challenges of cross-language and data-driven research. Through her PRME secondment and leadership of RRBM, she is shaping global responsible research and management education policy and practice. 

Professor Grzegorz Mazurek, is the Rector of Kozminski University – one of the leading business schools in Europe. He has held this position since 2020. He is a tenured professor specializing in digital transformation strategies for organizations and digital marketing. His primary areas of interest include technological advancements in the education and research sectors as well as the development of managerial competencies.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Advisory Board for the Central and Eastern Europe region within EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development) – a prestigious global organization that brings together leading business schools and sets the direction for the development of management education. He also serves on the European University Association's Innovation Committee and the EQUIS Accreditation Board, which is responsible for accrediting the world's top universities. Additionally, he is the Vice-Chair of the Internationalization Committee of KRASP (The Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland). Since 2020, he has served as the President of the International Advisory Board of the French business school ISC Paris. He regularly participates in global university accreditation processes on behalf of EQUIS, AACSB, and BSIS.

From 2012 to 2020, he served as Vice-Rector for International Relations at Kozminski University, where he was responsible for the university’s internationalization strategy. Between 2016 and 2018, he was a member of the Digitalization Council at the Ministry of Digital Affairs. Since March 2025, he has been involved in the team responsible for developing a higher education strategy for Poland under the Minister of Science and Higher Education.

Professor Mazurek is actively engaged in international academic and research initiatives and collaborates with universities worldwide. He has completed research fellowships at IESE Business School in Spain and Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He has also been a visiting professor at several prestigious academic institutions, including ESCP Europe, SKEMA Business School, and École de Management de Normandie in France; ISCTE Business School in Portugal; Nottingham Trent University in the United Kingdom; Soongsil University in South Korea; Universidad del Pacífico in Peru; and the University of Reykjavik in Iceland.

His academic output includes dozens of research articles, book chapters, and books published by renowned publishing houses such as Cambridge University Press, Emerald Publishing, and Routledge, as well as in scientific journals such as European Management Journal and Business Horizons. He is the author of Digital transformation (Transformacja cyfrowa, PWN, 2019) and the editor and co-author of the textbook E-marketing – Planning, Tools, and Practice (E-marketing – planowanie, narzędzia i praktyka, Poltext, 2018), which was recognized by the Polish Academy of Sciences. He is also the Director of the Kozminski MBA in Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence program and postgraduate studies in the field of digital economy, including Internet Marketing, E-commerce, and Digital Business Transformation.

Professor Mazurek has received multiple awards for his academic and publication achievements. In 2015, he was awarded the LUMEN Prize, which recognizes leaders in university management. In 2017, he received the Eduinspirator distinction from the Foundation for the Development of the Education System for his active contributions to education and his positive impact on the community. In 2020, he was honored with the Internationalization Star award in the Scientific Research category, granted by the Perspektywy Foundation. During his tenure, Kozminski University was recognized as the most internationalized higher education institution in Poland.

His activities also extend to business collaboration. He has carried out consulting and research projects for numerous well-known companies, including Nokia, Nikon, Polpharma, Egmont, PZU, Michelin, IKEA, and Mars Corp.

Vice-Rector for International Relations and ESR (Ethics, Social Responsibility), Dean of the College of Management

Prof. Mariola Ciszewska-Mlinarič, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and International Business Strategy at Kozminski University, where she serves as Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and ESR and Dean of the College of Management. Since 2024, she has also been a member of the MBS International Advisory Board and the ESIC University Academic International Advisory Committee.

Her research and teaching interests focus on strategy, internationalization, dynamic organizational capabilities, and business model innovation. She conducts studies on firms from emerging markets, international expansion processes, and cross-border cooperation. She has led projects funded by the National Science Centre (NCN) and collaborated on international research grants with CEIBS.

Prof. Ciszewska-Mlinarič is the author and editor of numerous publications in reputable journals and academic books. Her work has appeared in International Marketing Review, Journal of Business Research, Business History, and the European Journal of International Management (EJIM).

She has received several prestigious awards, including the Medal of the National Education Commission (2017), the Polish Prime Minister’s Award (2021), the Silver Medal for Long Service (2023), as well as multiple Best Paper Awards, including at the AIB UK & Ireland 2025 Conference.

Vice-Rector for Research and HR Development at Kozminski University, Head of the Department of Human Resources Management

From 2011 to 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and from 2016 to 2020 - a visiting researcher at INSEAD Business School. His research interests include human resources management, human resource development, leadership, and technology. He has numerous publications in recognized international scientific journals, such as the European Management Journal, Internet Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Human Resources, International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Managerial Psychology, Business Horizons, and Harvard Business Review. Pawel also serves as the Editor-In-Chief of the Central European Management Journal and the Senior Associate Editor of the European Management Journal.

Professor of International Business Policy and Head of the International Management Institute at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law, University Professor in Strategy and International Business at Kozminski University in Poland, and former President of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw. A leading scholar on the evolution of economic institutions. Prof. Hartwell’s interests are in institutional development, especially the interplay between business and politics. In terms of scholarly achievements, Professor Hartwell has published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Explorations in Economic History, Journal of Comparative Economics, and Regional Studies. Prof. Hartwell holds a PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, a master’s in public policy from Harvard, a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his habilitation from Kozminski. He is also the author of Two Roads Diverge:  The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2016), and Kazakhstan: Snow Leopard at the Crossroads (Routledge, 2023).

Professor of economic sciences. Expert in accounting and finance. Certified accountant. Graduate of the Cracow University of Economics in the field of Economic Cybernetics and Information Technology. Business trainer. Scholarship holder of the Fulbright Foundation. Member of the Chapter of the Accountant of the Year award. She is the Head of the Department of Accounting. Worked as a visiting professor in many universities in the USA and Europe.

Coordinator of many national and international research projects in the fields of intellectual capital measurement, corporate governance and financial and non-financial reporting. She has won numerous scientific awards and prizes. She is the author of numerous works on accounting, finance, intellectual capital management and corporate governance. Since 2017, she has served as vice-president of the European Academy of Management. Member of supervisory boards of institutions in the financial sector.

is an Assistant Professor at Kozminski University and Director of the Women and Diversity in Organizations Research Center. She is a member of the Young Academy of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of General Council for Science and Higher Education and an Associate Member of the Centre for Work, Organization and Society at the University of Essex. She studies gender in organizations and higher education institutions. Her research investigates how structural and cultural forces, such as neoliberalism, meritocratic ideals, and institutional norms, impact academic careers, with a focus on promoting greater inclusivity, equity, and justice within higher education.

Her recent book, Quitting Academia, analyzes how why- how- and after academic departures. Currently, she serves as co-editor-in-chief of Tamara: Journal for Critical Organization Inquiry and an associate editor and member of editorial board for various international journals.

Anna has participated as a principal investigator and researcher in multiple projects funded by the Polish National Science Centre, EU funds, British Academy, and Norwegian Funds. She has also received scholarships and awards including the Fulbright Award and the Minister of Science and Higher Education Scholarship for Young Prominent Scholars. She has gained international experience as a visiting scholar at Columbia Business School and ESCP Business School.

She is a sociologist and economist, and a full professor of social sciences. She was granted a PhD by the Department of Economics at the University of Warsaw and holds two Master’s degrees (in economic sciences from University College Dublin and in sociology from the University of Wroclaw). In 2021 she joined the Department of Economics at Kozminski University, where she established and became the director of the CRASH Center for Research on Social Change and Human Mobility.

In 2016–2021 she was the director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral School at SWPS University in Warsaw. In 2002–2019 she was a Research Fellow at the Centre of Migration Research in Warsaw (and she is currently a member of its Scientific Board). In 2008–2019 she was a member of the IMISCOE Executive Board and Board of Directors. She is a national expert of the European Commission in ESCO and the European Mobility Partnership; she now advises the European Labour Agency and the European Employment Services (EURES).

She is a co-author of the research monographs Migration and the Transfer of Informal Human Capital. Insights from Central Europe and Mexico (with Jastrzebowska; Routledge 2022); The Impact of Migration on Poland: EU Mobility and Social Change (with White, Kaczmarczyk and Slany; UCL Press 2018); and Migrants as Agents of Change (with Garapich, Jazwinska and Radziwinowiczowna; Palgrave Macmillan 2017). She is also the co-editor of Mobility in Transition. Migration Patterns After EU Enlargement (Amsterdam University Press 2013).

She has led research projects on migrants’ careers, social remittances, peer groups and migration (completed in 2020), life courses of young migrants and Brexit (completed in 2021), and migrant liquid integration (H2020 MIMY, completed in 2023). In 2023 she became the scientific coordinator of the Horizon Europe research project Link4Skills. She is the author or co-author of 50 migration‑related publications.

EVP, Chief Thought Leadership Officer & EMEA, AACBS International

Eileen McAuliffe is a member of the AACSB executive team and leads thought leadership initiatives, positioning AACSB as the global voice of business education. She advocates for the quality, relevance, and societal impact of business schools around the world, while also managing strategy and operations for the EMEA region to ensure effective engagement and support for AACSB members. She previously served as pro vice-chancellor (global) and executive dean of the Faculty of Business, Law, and Social Sciences at Birmingham City University. In this role, she guided the university’s 2030 and Beyond Strategy, ensuring alignment of global initiatives with the institution’s long-term vision. As executive dean, she led 12,000 students and 400 faculty overseeing a budget of approximately 100 million GBP Beyond academia, McAuliffe has extensive international experience in the oil industry, having held executive positions with ConocoPhillips in tax advisory. She earned her PhD in 2017 and was named Professor of International Taxation in 2020. McAuliffe is an active member of the United Nations Platform for the Collaboration on Tax. She is a former member of the AACSB Board of Directors.

Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and Harold Bierman, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Management

Andrew Karolyi is a scholar in the area of investment management with a specialization in the study of international financial markets. He has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies, and has published several books, including Cracking the Emerging Markets Enigma (2015). He is sought out as a consultant for his expertise by corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms.
Karolyi served as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies and has been an associate editor for dozens of other journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Finance. He is a recipient of the Michael Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations (2017), the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001).
Karolyi is the past Board Chair of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) and Vice Chair of the UN’s Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). He also serves as a Global Advisory Councilor for Accounting for Sustainability (A4S). He is a past board director of the American Finance Association, is past president of the Western Finance Association, and is past chairperson of the board of trustees and past president of the Financial Management Association International.
Karolyi received his BA (Honors) in economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and PhD degrees in finance at the Booth School of Business of the University of Chicago.

She is The Richard E. Sorensen Dean of the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. Prior to her role as Dean, she served as Professor of Informatics, at Lund University, Sweden and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics. Previously, she was at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, where she held many roles including Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Area Coordinator of IT, and Rolls Royce Commonwealth Commerce Professor. Her research interests are smart infrastructure and sustainability, healthcare information technology and technostress, and technology-enabled collaboration, and she has published in all the leading Information Systems journals Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, USA, and she has also co-authored a Palgrave-Macmillan book on work-life balance and IT. She is Senior Editor Emeritus at MISQ and was the inaugural Director of DEI at MISQ, and also served as Senior Editor at Journal of the AIS (JAIS). She is currently serving as Vice-Chair of Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) and member of its Working Board. 

Dean of the School of Management at Uniandes

She holds a Ph.D. in geography from Clark University and a master's degree in urban planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She was a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and has served as a visiting professor at the Stanford Center on Food Security and the Environment.
Her research focuses on understanding how companies make decisions about sustainability investments and the impacts of such decisions on business, people, and the environment. With over 20 years of experience working on trade, development, and biodiversity conservation, she has authored 50+ scientific and policy publications. She has been with UASM since 2013 and is currently co-chair for the IPBES assessment on Business and Biodiversity.

Chair in International Business in the Department of International Business and at the Centre for International Business, University of Leeds (CIBUL), UK

She earned her BSc in Economics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, and an MSc in International Business and Economic Integration from the University of Reading, UK. She completed her PhD in International Business at the University of Reading in 1995. Prior to joining the University of Leeds, Professor Papanastassiou held professorial appointments at Middlesex University, UK (2012–2019) and at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (Professor MSO, 2007–2012). She is currently a Visiting Professor at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, UK, and has previously held visiting appointments at universities worldwide, including a Visiting Professorship at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar from January 2022 to June 2023. Her research focuses on the international R&D strategies of multinational enterprises (MNEs), global value chains, and the implications of MNE activity for sustainability and the UN Sustainable Development Goals. She has published extensively in leading academic journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Research Policy. Professor Papanastassiou has co-authored two influential books with Robert Pearce on multinational enterprises, subsidiaries, and innovation, and has edited a volume on food security and sustainability in global agro-food chains. She has been a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) since 2011, served as Co-Chair of the EIASM Danny van den Bulcke Doctoral Symposium (2022–2025), and in 2025 was appointed the inaugural Chair of EIBA’s Ethics Committee. 

Professor of Business Information Systems at the University of Queensland

Prior to returning to UQ (his undergraduate alma mater), he was on the faculty of the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He conducts research on systems analysis and design, the effective use of information systems, and research methods. Much of his research, teaching, and service focus on supporting the digital transformation of healthcare. He has served the Information Systems field in many ways, including as Editor-in-Chief of MIS Quarterly and President of the Association for Information Systems. He serves on the Working Board of the Responsible Research in Business and Management (RRBM) network. 

David J. Reibstein is the William S. Woodside Professor of Marketing at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has previously served on the faculty at Harvard Business School and as a visiting professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and INSEAD in France. At Wharton, he has held leadership roles including Vice Dean, Director of the Graduate Division, and Julian Aresty Professor of Marketing. He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University and holds B.S. and B.A. degrees in statistics and political science from the University of Kansas, along with an honorary master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Reibstein is a former chairman of the American Marketing Association’s board of directors and serves as Executive Director of the Marketing Science Institute, which bridges academic research and industry practice. His research focuses on branding, competitive strategy, marketing metrics, and survey research, and he has published extensively in leading journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, and Harvard Business Review. For nearly a decade, he has led research on nation branding, launching the Best Countries report at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016 in partnership with U.S. News & World Report and WPP. As an award-winning educator, he has received more than 30 Wharton Excellence in Teaching Awards and has designed and led executive programs for over 300 companies worldwide. He is the author or coauthor of 15 books, including the widely used Marketing Metrics, and is a frequent contributor to major media outlets.

Professor in the Department of Management at Kozminski University. Graduate of Japanese Studies at the University of Warsaw and the Department of Management at The University of Tokyo. Scholarship holder of the Japan Foundation and the Japanese Ministry of Education. He conducts research on Japanese management, human resource management, and management in local branches of multinational companies. In 2012, he participated in international comparative research under the Ministry of Learning project on effective learning practices in public institutions.

In 2018, he went on an 8-month sabbatical at the Faculty of Management at the University of Tokyo funded by the Japanese Studies Fellowship Program. The purpose of the trip was to research the longevity of Japanese companies and develop continuity theory in collaboration with Prof. Toshio Goto from our partner university the Japan University of Economics. At the same time, together with colleagues from Hosei University, he summarized a 3-year research project on the hybridization of Japanese companies in Central and Eastern Europe.

Over the course of 8 months, he visited 30 companies and corporate museums, participated in 15 scientific seminars, delivered 11 papers, wrote 9 cases, and wrote the article "Measuring Change in Hybrid Factories: Longitudinal Study of Japanese Manufacturing Subsidiaries in Poland" which is the result of the research. The publication was awarded by Palgrave Macmillan and AJBS for the best research paper at the combined Association of Japanese Business Studies (AJBS) and Academy of International Business (AIB) conference in Copenhagen.

He is the author of the monograph "Does Culture Matter? HRM in Japanese Factories in Poland" and "Japanese Hybrid Factories in Poland and Central and Eastern Europe. From Socialism to Industry 4.0 " as well as many scientific articles and chapters in monographs. 

An expert in Management from Kozminski University. In his academic work, he studies the influence of cultural aspects on the way companies are managed. He is particularly interested in the topics of business history, Japanese management, and management in local branches of multinational companies. He is passionate about the culture of Asia, and Japan in particular. He conducts research projects on Japanese investment in Central and Eastern Europe and comparative studies of the continuity of the oldest companies in Poland and Japan. He was the head of a research project funded by the National Science Center and a contractor in the LEADER project funded by the NCBiR.

Member of many scientific and professional organizations, including the Association of Japanese Business Studies, the European Association for Japanese Studies, and the Japan Academy of International Business Studies. Plenipotentiary of the Rector for the Internal Quality Assurance System, Director of the Quality Office at Kozminski University.

She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Kozminski University and a member of the Sustainable Development Center. She specializes in the effectiveness of public interventions, policy evaluation, and evidence use in decision-making. In the context of responsible research, she explores how AI—especially generative tools—can strengthen credibility and relevance by improving evidence synthesis, methodological transparency, and the responsible uptake of findings, while addressing risks such as bias and accountability. She contributes to international initiatives including IbeReGloMi, a project advancing business curricula through an integrated focus on internationalisation, ethics, responsibility, sustainability, and social entrepreneurship aligned with the UN SDGs, and ENERGiES, a European programme developing a progressive training pathway to promote doctoral research in sustainable entrepreneurship and managerial innovation.

Professor of Sustainable and Responsible Business and Associate Dean (Ethics, Responsibility & Sustainability) at Newcastle University Business School. Her research examines how organisations can create responsible forms of value, with a focus on global value chains, sustainable business model innovation, corporate decarbonisation, and international development. Her work is framed by the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and explores how business practices intersect with broader social and environmental challenges. She currently serves as Chair of the Academy of International Business UK & Ireland Chapter and President of Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB). She is Senior Associate Editor of the European Management Journal and Associate Editor of Critical Perspectives on International Business.

Maria Lipińska is a PhD candidate at Kozminski University in Warsaw, Poland, under the supervision of prof. Dariusz Jemielniak (Kozminski University & Harvard). She holds two Master's degrees from the University of Warsaw— in Digital Sociology and in Language and Society. Her doctoral research examines pseudoscientific content and AI-generated disinformation in online environments, with a broader interest in social media dynamics, AI in healthcare, digital trust, and the societal impact of emerging technologies.
She is a researcher in Human AI Institute in Campus AI, EUonAIR and AISOME project — a Kozminski University initiative funded by a European University Institute Widening Grant.
Her first-authored publications appear in peer-reviewed journals including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. She has presented her research at international conferences such as ICA, IEEE VR, Conference AI for People and JMS Cambridge conference 2026.