We are delighted to confirm the following plenary speakers for the BAM2024 Conference:
Bruce Avolio
Bruce has published 12 books and over 150 articles on leadership models and methods and currently has a Google citation count of 206,000. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations around the globe in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, in the design and delivery of leadership assessment and development systems. Based on a recently completed Stanford University study, out of 6,880,389 scientists, who have published at least five papers in any of 22 major disciplines, ranging from biology to engineering to economics to management, Bruce’s research record was rated in the top 0.01% of the most-cited scientific researchers overall, and #25 among the 36,319 researchers in the category of business & management.
Lynn Saunders OBE
Lynn Saunders OBE is the the Head of Law and Social Sciences and a Professor of Applied Criminology. She has a professional background working in the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales, working in both prisons and in the community. Most recently as Governor of a large medium secure treatment site for people with sexual convictions, Professor Saunders co-founded a charity, (the Safer Living Foundation) in 2014 with the aim to prevent sexual (re) offending.
Jean-Pascal Gond
Jean-Pascal Gond is a Professor of Corporate Social Responsibility at Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City University London.
Before arriving at Bayes in 2012, he held various academic positions at HEC Montréal (University of Montréal, Canada) and at the International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School. He earned his PhD in Management Sciences from the University of Toulouse I (France), graduated from the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Cachan (1996), and was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship (2008). His research mobilizes organization theory and economic sociology to investigate corporate social responsibility (CSR). Key research programmes currently in progress on CSR include the roles of standards and metrics in the institutionalization of CSR in the financial marketplace and in corporations, the influence of CSR on employees, and the variations of CSR across varieties of capitalism. His research in economic sociology is concerned with the influence of theory on managerial practice, the governance of self-regulation, and the interplay of society’s commodification and markets’ socialization.
He has published in the fields of corporate responsibility and organization theory in leading academic journals such as Business Ethics Quarterly, Business and Society, Economy and Society, Human Relations, Organization Science, Organization Studies, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management Studies.
Petra Molthan-Hill
Professor Petra Molthan-Hill, PhD is Co-Chair of the UN PRME Working Group on Climate Change, Professor at NBS (UK), Author of the 'Handbook of Carbon Management. A Step-by-Step Guide to High-Impact Climate Solutions for Every Manager in Every Function' and Editor of 'Sustainable Management. A Complete Guide for Faculty and Students' (3rd edition). She is an international multi-award-winning expert for Climate Change Mitigation Tools and leads the ‘Climate Literacy Training -CLT-ECOS' distributed worldwide with QS Impact and UN PRME, which won the QS Reimagine Education Award in Sustainability (Gold) in 2022. She has worked with SMEs and many other organizations such as the NHS on how to reduce GHG emissions. From 2013–2021, she led the Green Academy at NTU integrating with her team the SDGs into the curriculum of every discipline across all faculties.
David Lefevre
Dr. David Lefevre is Professor of Practice in Digital Innovation at the Imperial College Business School. Prior to this, David headed an award winning innovation team called the Edtech Lab. This team launched Imperial’s first online courses and currently delivers 220+ online modules including online degree programmers. David stepped down from this role in 2022 and is currently exploring on applications of AI to education with a focus on ‘human in the loop’ automated education systems.
In 2005, David was the founder of the digital publishing company Epigeum which currently supplies interactive courseware to 200+ universities globally and in 2018, co-founded the learning platform company Insendi together with his Imperial colleague Marc Wells. David is a Special Advisor at Study Group, a trustee for the British Council and is currently supporting the launch of Tutello, and AI Tutoring venture.
Hannah Jeacock
Hannah Jeacock is Research Director at HR, payroll, and finance software provider MHR. In her role at the company, Hannah explores how new technology and ideas can bring value to MHR’s customers, employees, and the wider world of work. With nearly 20 years’ of experience in software and technology, she has worked in software engineering, management and leadership roles. Hannah’s research focuses on topics such as the future of work, the implications of AI and automation, and improving the employee experience. Additionally, Hannah is a champion for Women in Tech and is involved in initiatives to support young people begin their career in tech.
Mairead Brady
Associate Professor, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Management Education and Development (MED) division of the Academy of Management.
Sir Kenneth Olisa OBE
Ken is Founder and Chairman of boutique technology merchant bank, Restoration Partners. Ken’s technology career spans over 40 years commencing with IBM and then as a senior executive at Wang Laboratories working in the UK, Belgium and the USA.
He has considerable public company Board-level experience on both sides of the Atlantic. The first British-born black man to be appointed as a Director of a FTSE 100 company (Reuters) he has also served on the Boards of Open Text, Thomson Reuters, Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation and several AIM-listed businesses. Today he chairs a portfolio of high potential technology businesses including Inogesis (home to the Virtual Technology Cluster), Interswitch (Nigeria’s leading payments company) and Proxymity – (digital investor communications platform) Interswitch.
Ken is equally committed to public service and has been an NHS Trust Director, an inaugural member of regulators, Postal Service Commission and IPSA (Independent Parliamentary Standard Authority); and a Governor of the Peabody Trust. He is the founder of the Aleto Foundation; President of Thames Reach (for which he received an OBE in 2010); Chairman of Shaw Trust; and President of London Youth. In 2015 Her Majesty the Queen, appointed him as her Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London. He was knighted in 2018 for services to business and philanthropy and in 2021 he was appointed High Bailiff and Searcher of the Sanctuary at Westminster Abbey and a Trustee of the Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund. On January 1st 2022, Ken becomes Chair of BusinessLDN (formerly known as London First.)
He captures his motivations in his official motto – ‘Do well. Do good.”
Mike Keoghan
Michael Keoghan leads the Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics Group (ESEG) in ONS.
Mike is responsible for ensuring ONS continues to produce the UK’s most important statistics about the economy and society, expanding our work on the environment and driving the transformation of economic statistics. Under the ESEG umbrella sit national accounts, labour market statistics, trade, public sector finances, prices, crime, subnational data and climate change statistics, amongst other key products.
Mike joined ONS in 2022, having transferred from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). Most recently at BEIS, Mike was the Director of Analysis and their Chief Economist. He also held the role of Acting Director General for Business Sectors between 2020 and 2021, taking responsibility for the overall leadership of UK government policy for business, including delivering the EU Business readiness programme prior to EU Exit.
Mike begun his Civil Service career over twenty years ago. Prior to his time at BEIS, he held the role of Deputy CEO at the Institute for Apprenticeships, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Education, and was the Director of Skills and Apprenticeships at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, where he’d previously held the post of Senior Economic Adviser.
Fang Lee Cooke
Fang Lee Cooke is a Distinguished Professor at Monash Business School, Monash University, Australia. Her research interests are in the areas of strategic HRM, knowledge management and innovation, diversity and inclusion management, digitalization and implications for employment and HRM; climate change, energy transition and the future of work; Sustainable Development Goals and the role of firms, including HRM.
Fang Lee Cooke’s recent research projects examine some of the tensions, challenges and implications associated with these topics for various key stakeholders such as the state, employers’ associations, trade unions, workers, and non-government organizations. She is currently involved in the project: ‘Digital Futures at Work Research Centre’ funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, UK: https://digit-research.org/.
Fang Lee Cooke is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for PRME Research Excellence (2018) and the Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (2011), Faculty of Business and Economics, Monash University, Australia. She was also a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Scheme) Visiting Professor, Georg-August-Universität Goettingen, Germany (2016), and visiting professor at King’s College London (2022) and at the University of Sussex (2020-now).
Fang Lee Cooke is a panel member of the United Nations Environment Programme-International Sciences Council (UNEP-ISC), Foresight Expert Panel (2023-2024), and a member of the Research Review Panel, International Labour Organization (2024-).
Dana Minbaeva
Dana Minbaeva is a Professor of Strategic Human Capital at King's Business School, King’s College London, UK. She also has a part-time appointment at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, and works as an affiliate faculty at London Business School, UK. Professor Minbaeva published over 70 articles in international peer reviewed journals, numerous book chapters and reports. Her research on strategic and international HRM has appeared in such top international journals as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Human Resource Management, and many others
Professor Minbaeva is the Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB). She received several national and international awards to research achievements, including the prestigious JIBS Decade Award 2013. Currently, Professor Minbaeva serves as an Associate Editor of the Academy of Management Review.
Professor Minbaeva is actively involved in the MBA and executive teaching at various European business schools. Previously, she has taught in Denmark, Austria, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Russia, Lithuania, Kyrgyzstan, Finland and Germany as well as having held visiting research positions in Ireland, Australia and Canada.
Dana is a founder and research partner of Nordic Human Capital Advisory ApS
Andrew Hoffman
Andrew (Andy) Hoffman is the Holcim (US) Professor of Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan; a position that holds joint appointments in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the School for Environment and Sustainability.