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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.

Karol Olejniczak is an associate professor of public policy at SWPS University in Warsaw, Poland, and a co-founder of the Polish policy research company - Evaluation for Government Organizations (EGO s.c.). 
His work focuses on policy design and evaluation, emphasizing the use of evidence in decision-making. In his research and teaching, he integrates games, experiments, and behavioral design to enhance learning and practical application. 

Karol has over twenty years of experience in applied research and training for numerous institutions worldwide, such as the European Commission, World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and several public institutions in Poland. 

He has been publishing his works in books (Polish six-volume series on Learning Ministries, Comparative Policy Evaluation book series published by Routledge) and academic journals (e.g., American Journal of Evaluation, Policy Design and Practice, Policy & Politics). 

Karol has been an Ostroms' Policy Analysis Workshop fellow (Indiana University - 2006), a Kosciuszko Foundation fellow (2012), and a Fulbright fellow (2021 – George Washington University). He is a laureate of Leader of Evaluation – a title awarded by Polish public administration (2014). In 2022, he received the Minister of Education and Science prize for the team's significant achievements in applied research.

At SWPS University, Karol leads The Center for Policy Design and Evaluation (C4PDE): https://english.swps.pl/33207-center-for-policy-design-and-evaluation-c4pde

Professor of strategy at the Faculty of Management and Communication of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. His recent publications focus on the behavioral underpinning of strategic actions, including the role of trust, perceptions, preferences and frames. Guest-editor of several special issues and organizer of workshops and conference tracks on coopetition. Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences Committee for Management and Organization Science, former vice-president of EURAM.

Prof. Taran Patel is the Director of the Doctoral School of Grenoble Ecole de Management. She is Senior/Full Professor in the People, Organization, and Society Department of GEM. She earned her PhD from the Open University at Milton Keynes (UK) under the supervision of Prof Steve Rayner (University of Oxford) in 2006 and her Habilitation à Diriger des Recherche (HDR) from University of Rouen (France) under the guidance of Prof Michalis Lianos in 2022. She has published academic articles in many internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals such as Organization, Management Decisions, European Management Review, Journal of Business Ethics, and Business and Society. She has published three books on cross cultural management and has been a consultant to companies such as Salmson, Technip-Coflexip, Atos Origin and AXA. In addition to her permanent position at GEM, she serves on the Research Advisory Committees and Faculty Recruitment Committees of certain Indian and European business schools.

Dr. Agnieszka Trzeciakiewicz is a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at the University of York (UK). She specialises in corporate finance and issues related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors. Her research, supported by funding from the British Academy, the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), the University of Hull, and the University of York, has been published in prestigious academic journals, including The Accounting Review, The European Journal of Finance, and The British Accounting Review. Agnieszka’s research has received best paper awards at leading international conferences, and her findings have been featured in major media outlets such as Bloomberg, Yahoo!, The Accountant Online, and Columbia Law School's Blog on Corporations and Capital Markets.

Agnieszka is also a Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy and has over a decade of experience in designing, delivering, and managing undergraduate and postgraduate courses, as well as executive education programmes.

She holds a PhD in Finance, an MSc in Financial Management, and a BA in Business and Financial Management from the University of Hull, as well as a ‘Licencjat’ degree in Banking and Finance from Kozminski University.

Dr. Laurent Scaringella is an associate professor at Rennes School of Business and a research affiliate at Kozminski University. He has two doctorate degrees — a DBA from the Grenoble Ecole de Management and a PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Rennes. During his doctoral studies, he was involved in several projects funded by the European Commission. He has been a visiting scholar at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and he received a habilitation to supervise research from Paris Dauphine University | PSL. His research interests focus on strategic, knowledge, and management of innovation. He is particularly interested in strategic alliances, absorptive capacity, ambidexterity, knowledge dynamics, radical innovation, and ecosystems. He publishes in journals such as Information and Management, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, R&D Management, Technovation, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Decision Support Systems, the Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, Information Processing and Management, Strategic Change, and the European Journal of Innovation Management, among others.

Karen is a Reader in Doctoral Education in the School for Arts and Creative Technologies at the University of York and Co-PI/Director of the Next Generation Research SuperVision Project (RSVP). RSVP is a £4.6million, Research England funded project designed to transform the practice and culture of research supervision. Working with 58 research organisations and global businesses RSVP is believed to be the largest collaborative, cross-disciplinary, transnational research project into doctoral education ever funded.

Karen has been actively involved in researcher development for over 25 years and designed programmes for Graduate Teaching Assistants, Fellows and Research Leaders at the University of York. She has published on assessment and reflective practice in HE and doctoral education. She is an elected executive member of several professional bodies, a trained coach and an accomplished conference speaker.

Nicola has worked in Higher Education for over 25 years and in Doctoral Programmes Management for 15 years. She is an experienced Business School Doctoral Supervisor who, to date, has supervised 19 doctoral candidates to completion and examined over 20 candidates. She was one of the first doctoral supervisors to achieve UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE) Research Supervisor Recognition and has won an Inspirational Research Supervisor award for her practice. Nicola served on the management focused Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative (NARTI) Board 2014–2017 and the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Doctoral Programmes Committee 2016–2022. She is an academic based in the Doctoral School at Sheffield Hallam University and the School for Business & Society at the University of York and is a Visiting Associate Professor at UCL. Nicola is involved in the delivery of Research England funded projects on postgraduate research race equity and the transformation of doctoral supervision. She is co-Chair of the UKCGE Research Supervisors’ Network.

Pamela Koziol - has a master's degree in finance and is currently a doctoral student in psychology. Key areas of interest in psychology are cognitive, political and social psychology. In addition to her business work in the medical industry, Ms. Pamela is also President and founder of a foundation that supports chronically ill people on a diagnostic odyssey. The goal of the Foundation's activities is to improve accurate diagnosis, promote an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosis, and support the differentiation between psychosomatic and organic diseases. On a daily basis, Ms. Pamela coordinates the work of several teams of volunteers, among whom psychology and medical students predominate.

Ms. Pamela's professional experience includes: consulting for capital companies with regard to intercompany settlements (transfer pricing), coordination of corporate social responsibility projects in the NGO sector, logistics in a global medical company, and journalism. 

Psychologist and researcher. Initiator of the PhD Mental Health project, implemented within the Polish PhD student community. Author and co-author of several academic articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. A graduate of the University of Wrocław and SWPS University. Currently a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Psychology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Her research, covering media psychology, health psychology, and environmental psychology, involves collaboration with researchers from the USA, Europe, and Asia.

Zuzanna Staniszewska is a PhD candidate jointly at Kozminski University and ESCP Business School in Paris. She is a member of the Center for Women and Diversity in Organizations at Kozminski University. Her current research focuses on women in leadership and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in organizational settings. Co-author of articles published, among others, in Government Information Quarterly, Gender, Work and Organizations and Gender in Management.