Panel Speakers
 | Professor Hari Bapuji, University of Melbourne, Australia Dr. Hari Bapuji is a Professor in the Department of Management and Marketing, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne, Australia. He has published numerous scholarly articles in many leading management journals, including Academy of Management Annals, Business & Society, Harvard Business Review, Human Relations, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Operations Management, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Organization Studies. Dr. Bapuji has won a number of awards and grants for his research and has authored cases used by thousands of students around the world. He serves as a co-editor of Business & Society, and on the editorial boards of top-tier journals including Organization Studies and Journal of Management Studies. |
 | Associate Professor Sanjoy Kumar Paul, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia Associate Editor Sanjoy Kumar Paul is an associate professor of operations and supply chain management at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia. He has received several recognitions and awards in his career, including the Research with Relevance award, the top 2% of scientists (three times based on citations in 2020-2022) in author databases of standardized citation indicators, the ASOR Rising Star Award, Excellence in Early Career Research Award, the Stephen Fester prize for most outstanding thesis, and high-impact publications award for publishing articles in top-tier journals. He is an associate editor of Business Strategy and the Environment and Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. He is also an editorial board member and guest editor of several other top-ranked journals. |
 | Associate Professor Matthew Pepper, School of Business, University of Wollongong, Australia. His recent research and consultancy activities focus on lean thinking, six sigma based process improvement and supply chain design and optimisation. He has undertaken research and consultancy across a range of industry sectors, including the manufacturing and process industries as well as local government. Most recently, his work has focused on the implementation of continuous improvement in service environments. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Boards for the Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, the International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, and the International Journal of Information and Operations Management Education. He is also an Associate Editor for the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management and the IIMK Society and Management Review Journal. |
 | Professor Lucy Taksa, Department of Management, Deakin Business School, Deakin University Professor Lucy Taksa is Deputy Director of the Deakin Centre for Refugee Employment Advocacy Training and Education, a Senior Fellow with the Centre for Unframed Thinking at Rennes Business School and a member of Toulouse Business School's International Research Advisory Board both in France and of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Centre on Global Migration at Gothenburg University in Sweden. She is Editor-in-Chief (with Prof. Amanda Pyman) of the Journal of Industrial Relations, based at Deakin Business School and on the editorial boards of Economic and Labour Relations Review, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations, Labour History and Journal of Management History. Prof. Taksa has been an assessor for the Australian Research Council (ARC) since 1998 and was member of the ARC College of Experts (2014-16). She has assessed research grants for funding bodies in Australia, Belgium, Canada, The Netherlands and Poland. |
