Annik Bilodeau, PhD

Educational Developer, Research and Consulting at the University of Waterloo’s Centre for Teaching Excellence.

Keynote Speaker for 16th LIC (July 14-16, 2025)

Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies
University of Waterloo, Waterloo-Canada

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.

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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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.

Prof. Dr. M. Faizal Abd. Ghani

University of Malaya, Department of Educational Management, Planning, and Policy, Faculty of Education.

Muhammad Faizal A. Ghani’s expertise is Educational Leadership focusing on Educational
Management and Administration, and School Finance. His expertise is for the benet of society by sharing some academic knowledge,
skills, and value in the forms of reading material such as publishing nine academic books and two hunderd articles. His latest
academic book entitled “Professional Learning Communities: Theories and Practices”. All experiences of him are put in the shape of a journal namely Journal of Educational Leadership by
appointing him as an editor besides being an editorial board for some international journals like Bannu University Research Journal in
Education, Journal of Economics and Finance, European Journal of Educational and Social Sciences and International Journal of
Education Teaching and Learning.

Dr. Albert Efendi Pohan, S.Pd., M.Pd
Head of Educational Management Study Program, University of Riau Kepulauan, Batam, Indonesia.

He is the best and fastest doctoral graduate in the Master of the Educational Management Study Program, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia. His research areas include human resource development in education, educational leadership, and curriculum. He received numerous research grants from the Ministry of Education, government agencies, and other private institutions. Dr. Albert has published various national and international articles, as well as national and international proceedings. He has frequently been invited as keynote speaker at national and international conferences in various countries. In addition, he served as expert in several regions of Indonesia in the fields of curriculum development, leadership competency, and teacher competency.