Olga Nosova, Professor
Kharkiv National University-Ukraine

Conference Honorary Chair for 7th LIC (May 2022)
Conference Chair for 1st LIC (January 2021)

Nosova Olga is a Professor at the Department of Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship at the V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, where she is involved in delivering lectures, conducting seminars in International Economics, Macroeconomics, Modern Economic Theories and etc., preparing reports, writing articles for conferences and journals. She investigates the following themes: Economics of transition, foreign direct investment, corporate governance, and regional integration. She was a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Centre in Washington, DC in 1997. She successfully graduated from the Master Program in Applied Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna and took part in various economic programs at Hebrew University, Central European University, and Eurasia Foundation. During 1998-2000, she participated in the joint Belgium-Ukrainian project in support new educational program in Ukraine, 2000-2004 – in the Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation research project “Restructuring, Stabilizing and Modernizing East European countries”. She worked as visiting professor at the Portland State University and Freie University Berlin. Currently, she investigates the theme ”System Transformation in Ukraine” with cooperation with Professor Dr. Timm Beichelt at the Viadrina Institute of European Studies. She received her PhD in Economics from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 1992 and Habilitation in Economics from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2002.

Ibrahim Kurt, PhD

Educational consultant
The Netherlands

Conference Chair for 12th LIC (April 2024)
Keynote Speaker for 11th of LIC (February 2024)

İbrahim Kurt was born in 1974. He graduated from Anatolian University Faculty of Sociology (1993-1997). He got his master’s degree in the pedagogical way of teaching language at Azerbaijan University of Foreign Languages (2002-2004). Heading towards the field of education began a doctorate in pedagogy (2005). He joined academic research for 3 months at the University of North Texas, USA (2006). He finished his doctorate in the field of Educational Sciences (2011). Dr. Kurt worked as a professor in the Department of Guidance and Counseling at Africa University in Lilongwe/Malawi between 2016 and 2018.
In his 27-year career, he has attended international conferences, seminars, and workshops. He gave a variety of seminars within and outside the universities to teachers and students in different countries like Azerbaijan, Turkey, the Republic of South Africa, Malawi, Angola, The Netherlands etc.
He has published over 40 articles in national and international peer-reviewed journals, and 45 papers in national and international symposiums and congresses. He was also a keynote speaker for several international conferences. He is the writer of “In the Land of Hopes”. He also published 4 book chapters in sociology, value education and moral education. His special fields of study are pedagogy, moral and values education, and cross-cultural value comparisons. He has worked on projects and as an educational consultant since 2018 in The Netherlands.

Christina Schabasser, PhD

University of Sopron Alexander Lamfalussy Faculty of Economics, Hungary
University of Applied Sciences Burgenland, Austria

Keynote Speaker for 10th LIC (November 2023)

Christina Schabasser was born in 1986 in St. Pölten in Lower Austria and still lives in the rural region of this district. She holds a master’s degree in international business administration, with a specialization in business informatics and electronic business, from the University of Vienna. Christina holds a PHD in “International Economic Relations and Management” from the University of Sopron. She has a research interest in business and management, with a strong interest in the openness to conducting interdisciplinary research at an internationally competitive level. Her understanding of science and research revolves around interdisciplinarity, networking, and problem-solving for decision-makers in business and management.
She has published in “Zeitschrift für wirtschaftlichen Fabrikbetrieb”, “lernen & lehren”, “Information – Wissenschaft & Praxis”, “Eurasian Journal of Higher Education“, and “London Journal of Social Sciences”. She has performed in various prominent positions, including a financial assistant for a social organization dealing with female genital mutilation called Desert Flower Foundation; a product manager, scrum master, and team leader in a software company producing financial software products for companies and tax consultants called DVO Software; and a texter and channel manager for a firm that offers vouchers from partners in gastronomy training institutes and event organization services called DailyDeal GmbH. Her current activities include managing receivables at a law firm and making decisions on the legality of cases, credit checks, and contact with debtors and lawyers at Kosch & Partner Rechtsanwälte in Vienna

Ali Askerov, Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies Ph.D. in Peace and Conflict Studies, UNCG-USA

Keynote Speaker for 5th LIC (November 2021)

Teaches peace studies at the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, UNC–Greensboro. His interests are peace education, ethnic conflicts, political violence, human rights, international morality, and the history of political ideas. He is an author or co-author of several books that include Russo-Turkish Relations (2021), Post-Soviet Conflicts (2020), Contemporary Relations Between Turkey and Russia: From Crisis to Cooperation (2018), Transformative Change: An Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (2015), Historical Dictionary of Chechen Conflict (2015), and Chechens from Past to Future: Healing the Wounds (2012). He has been interviewed for various television on international conflicts, terrorism, and national security issues. His present research includes ongoing refugee issues, contending interests of Russia and Turkey in the Middle East and Caucasus, international terrorism, identity formation and change, and human rights issues

Bambang Sugiyono Agus Purwono, PhD
Mechanical Engineering Department, State Polytechnic of Malang-Indonesia

Conference Chair for 4th LIC (September 2021)
Keynote Speaker for 3rd LIC (June 2021)

Doctor in Management Science, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Brawijaya, Malang, Indonesia (2011). Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture sandwich program in La Trobe University-Melbourne, Australia (2009) as a participant. International Journal has already published are the strategy of simulation effect of wind speed, variation of turbine blades and its interaction to the power generated by the vertical axis wind turbine using NACA 2412 (IJET UAE-2018), Simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) Using Turbine Blades NACA 4412 type (IJSSST-2019). Micro Hydro Power Plants (IJMPERD-2019), Energy Procedia (2013, 2015), TEM, JARDICS, IJ Psychology and Education (2021). Textbooks that have been published are Strategic Planning, Production Management, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Maintenance Management, Entrepreneur and Technopreneur, Engineering Mechanics, Linear Programming, and Research Methodology. Also as a speaker and a conference chair in numerous international conferences and national seminars about Entrepreneurship and Cooperative, Balance Scorecard, SWOT Analysis, Strategic Management, and Renewable Energy, Wind Turbine, Plastic Waste, Quality Control, Water Treatment Plants, and Micro Hydro Power Plants in Malang, Bali, Yogyakarta, Bandung, Jakarta-Indonesia, Timor Leste, Melbourne-Australia, Hong Kong Polytechnics University.

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Merjjena B. Hemp, PhD
Global Dialogue For Justice Founder-USA

Keynote Speaker for 3rd LIC June 2021)

Dr. Merjjena “Merj” B. Hemp holds a B.A. and M.A. in Communication Studies and a PhD. in Curriculum & Instruction from New Mexico State University. Her research interests include Crisis Communication and Global Community Engagement. In 2009, she conducted original mixed-method research on Improving Crisis Communication for her master’s thesis. She continued to explore the same topic for her doctoral research, exploring the multiple perspectives of Arab Muslim women in the post-9/11 era. She published her first book, Beyond the Shadow of 3000 Pairs of Shoes: A Story of Hopelessness, Persistence, and Survival in July of 2014, two months after receiving her doctoral degree.

Sophia Butt, Doctoral Researcher
University of Birmingham-United Kingdom

Keynote Speaker for 2nd LIC (April 2021) 

Sophia Butt joined the UK’s University of Birmingham (UoB) in 1997 as a course writer for their distance MA in Translation Studies. From 2008 to 2014, she was director of the highly-acclaimed Business Management English Presessional Programme. Sophia is a regular presenter at international conferences where she talks and trains on a variety of disciplines, including Forensic Linguistics, ESP Course Design & Strategy, and Terrorism Studies. As an interdisciplinary doctoral researcher working with Linguistics, Social Policy and Law, Sophia is currently exploring the implementation of the UK’s counter-terrorism strategy in the country’s higher education sector. Throughout 2019, Sophia was engaged as a Higher Education Consultant by the Kazakh Ministry of Education as Vice-Rector for Internationalisation at S.D.U. in Almaty. She is also affiliated to Aalto University in Finland (2006- ) and Trinity College London (2015- ). 

Diana Pak, M.A. TESOL
Senior Lecturer at KIMEP University-Kazakhstan

Moderator for 2nd LIC (April 2021) 

Diana Pak is a Senior English Language Lecturer and a Teacher Trainer at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She teaches Learning Technologies in Foreign Language Classrooms, Materials Development and Resources in ELT, and Academic and Graduate Foundation English courses. Over the past year, she has conducted a number of professional development webinars to help university professors develop teaching skills for an online learning environment. Diana’s research interests include Teacher Education and Professional Development, Educational Technologies, ELT Materials Development, Curriculum and Instruction, Language Awareness, and Inclusive Education. Currently, she is working on two projects related to online teaching.