Editorial Advisory Board

Ramli Atan

Ramli Atan is a Learning Specialist with PETRONAS Leadership Centre, the leadership development arm of PETRONAS. He has wide experience in the area of program design & development, facilitation and consultancy. His areas of specialty include consulting, mindset change, competency assessment, senior leadership team alignment, presentation and communication skills as well leadership programs. He has also delivered consultancy and learning solutions in international countries such as USA, Korea, Sudan, Vietnam and Turkmenistan.

Ramli has also conducted competency profiling projects for PETRONAS HR and for the various PETRONAS operating companies including overseas namely, Transportasi Gas Indonesia.

He holds a Masters degree in Curriculum & Instruction from University of Houston, Texas.

Chantelle Brandt Larsen

Chantelle has a DBA in organisational leadership from the Swiss Business School. A visionary Senior Business Leader and Board Member with a proven history of success in guiding innovative strategies which drive development across complex business landscapes, specifically the intersection between human design and technology. A wealth of experience has facilitated Chantelle with an adept operational and technological understanding and enabled her to navigate fluently throughout the international arena. Both a motivating leader and passionate mentor, she has mobilised cross-functional workforces, embedded high-performance cultures and encouraged individual development through training initiatives. A steady hand in the board room, Chantelle has provided strategic oversight, offered constructive challenges and advised Executives on key decision-making to steer growth and increase overall business efficiencies.

Hilary Claire Frazer

Hilary is an international Organisation Director with an Internal Auditing and Business-Finance background.  She brings extensive experience of transformation programmes and change projects for global companies in Life Sciences, Financial Services, Industry and Manufacturing.  She also serves as a NED on the Board of Trustees of The Pituitary Foundation. 

Hilary is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, with an MSc in Audit Management and Consultancy and a Chartered Internal Auditor.  Qualifications include; a Certificate in Group Dynamics at Board Level with the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (in progress), a Certificate in Organisational Development with the NTL Institute of Applied Behavioural Science and as a Chartered Management Accountant. 

Ajantha Dharmasiri

Ajantha is a renowned conference speaker, corporate trainer, strategy consultant, acclaimed author and an accomplished academic. He is currently the Director and the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIM), University of Sri Jayewardenepura. He is the Immediate Past President of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM), Sri Lanka, and was a Vice President of the Asia Pacific Federation of Human Resource Management (APFHRM). He is an Adjunct Professor at the Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma, USA. He carries three decades of private and public sector experience including Unilever and Nestle, with consultancy engagements in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. He is a Commonwealth AMDISA Doctoral Fellow, Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow and Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. and an MBA from the Postgraduate Institute of Management and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Moratuwa. He is a Chartered Electrical Engineer, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management, UK and an independent director of several boards. Being an author of seven books and editor of the longest publishing management journal in Sri Lanka (SLJM), he has won many accolades including gold medals for best papers in two international management conferences, Emerald best paper award in 2014, and in 2010 the Platinum Award by the Alumni of the Postgraduate Institute of Management (PIMA) for outstanding academic contribution. He also won the prestigious IPM Lifetime Gold Award 2014, the highest honour for an HR professional in Sri Lanka. Ajantha likes to identify himself as one who transitioned from being an “Engineer of Electrical” to an “Engineer of Hearts and Mind”.

Geoffrey Elliott

Geoffrey is Professor of Post-Compulsory Education at the University of Worcester, having taught in comprehensive schools, further, adult and higher education. He is immediate past President of the Association for Research in Post-Compulsory Education, and edits the international peer reviewed journal Research in Post-Compulsory Education.

Jorge Jauregui Morales

 Jorge started his current role as Corp. Director HR at the Americas Mining Corporation ( AMC ) in 2015. Prior to this, he has worked in HR roles at Unilever, Grupo KUO and as HR corp director at Bristol Myers-Squibb based in Mexico City. He has a Masters in organizational development from Ibero American University, Mexico City.

Allyson MacVean

Allyson MacVean graduated as a criminal psychologist at undergraduate level and specialised in intelligence, security and covert investigations for her postgraduate awards. Her current interests are motivated by her previous role in the Serious and Organised Crime Directorate at the Home Office and her PhD from Brunel University was focussed on Police Intelligence in Operations.

For the past six years, Allyson has been working closely with law enforcement organisations across England, Wales and Scotland to develop ethical leadership and culture within a local, regional and national framework. As part of her ethical leadership agenda, she advises the Royal Marines in their review of ethos and training following allegations of undesirable conduct. This led, in 2017, to a commission by the Fleet Commander to examine and evaluate the culture, ethical climate, ethical awareness and ethical leadership for the Five Arms of the Naval Service. As part of this agenda, Professor Macvean attends a NATO Working Group for Ethical Leadership.

Allyson is Director of the Centre for Leadership, Ethics and Professional Practice located at Bath Spa University. She is also the Chair for the submission of ethical dilemmas for the UK Police Ethics Guidance Group.

Berna Öztınaz

Berna holds an MBA and started her corporate HR career at Kordsa at 1998 after graduating from Istanbul University.  Along with Turkey operations at Kordsa, she also has taken part in various international projects. Subsequent to joining Enerjisa in 2005, she held the titles of Head of Strategic Business Support and  Head of HR and Business Excellence consecutively.  Berna has worked STFA group as Strategy and HR Chief Officer (CSHR) until 2019 and lately joined Defacto as CHRO.

Berna currently holds the Chairman of the Board title at Peryön, the biggest non-profit organization in Human Resources in Turkey, and has recently been appointed as a Board Member at European Association for People Management at EAPM.

Alexey Verbetsky

Alexey Verbetsky is the Deputy Director, School of Public Policy and Management at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA). He also serves as the Executive Director of International Development and Public Policy Alliance (IDPPA). Alexey Verbetsky has over 25 years of research and consulting experience in both the public and private sectors. In 1996-2000, he was a senior economist at the Central Bank of Russia. In the management consultancy sector, he has been supervising implementation of complex educational programs, including international partnerships and joint research by leading universities from Russia, U.S., China, India, and Eastern Europe.  He currently supervises a number of international programs in the area of public policy and management at RANEPA and teaches courses on strategic decision-making, organizational change management, and business research methodology. He holds an MBA with distinction from Kingston University London and MA in Economics from the New Economic School. His research interests include global competitiveness, strategic talent management, and universities’ competition strategies.

Rob Poell

Rob’s area of expertise is Human Resource Development. This encompasses all aspects of learning, training, education, development, and change in organizations and their employees. His specific interest is in the organization of learning in the workplace and the strategies used in that respect by employees, managers, and HRD professionals.

Marguerite Eid

Marguerite Eid is a full-time faculty member at the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics in the Department of Management and Marketing at Notre Dame University (NDU) – Louaize, Lebanon. She holds a PhD in Business and Management from the University of Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. She earned an MBA degree (major in Management and Strategy) and a BA degree (major in International Business Management) from NDU. She taught different courses in management, ethics, marketing, accounting, finance, and economics for nine years at NDU. She is currently an advisor for international business management students at NDU and teaching management and ethics courses. Her field of research is corporate social responsibility (CSR), ethics, and management decision-making.

Muhammad Shujahat

Muhammad Shujahat is a PhD candidate at the Knowledge Management & E-Learning Lab, Faculty of Education of Education, The University of Hong Kong. His research topics include knowledge management, intellectual capital, knowledge-worker productivity and e-learning. The current theme of his research studies is to explore and examine different innovative managerial practices (e.g., knowledge-work design practices)  that can increase the productivity of knowledge workers and organizations. On these topics, he has published in several renowned journals, such as Journal of Business Research, Journal of Knowledge Management, Computers & Education, and Educational Research Review, among others. 

Eduardo Tomé

Dr Eduardo Tomé gained his PhD in Economics (2001), with a Thesis on the European Social Fund. Since then he has worked in several Portuguese private universities. He published 40 papers in peer-reviewed Journals and presented 75 papers in international conferences. He also authored 7 book chapters, He was involved in organising and chairing 10 international Conferences for which he also co-edited the Proceedings and edited four Specials Issues in EJKM, EJTD and IJKBD. Since September 2013 he has worked at Universidade Europeia in Lisbon, Portugal. His main interests are Intangibles (Human Resources, Knowledge Management and Intellectual Capital), Social Policy and International Economics (globalization and the European Integration).