Jean-denis Garon, an associate professor of economics at ESG-UQAM. I completed a doctoral degree at Queen's University in 2012, under the supervision of Robin W. Boadway and Sumon Majumdar. Afterwards, I was appointed as a professor of economics at ESG-UQAM where I teach/taught Advanced microeconomic theory and Public economics at the graduate level, Intermediate microeconomic theory at the undergraduate level in economics, as well as Introductory microeconomics for non-economists

I specialize in public sector economics, with special emphasis on theoretical normative tax and behavioural issues, and on fiscal federalism. I am a fellow at CIRANO, the Centre Inter universitaire de Recherche en Analyse des organisations and a research affiliate at the CESIfo Group Munich. I am currently director of the Fiscal Federalism branch of the Centre d'Analyse Politique Constitution et Fédéralisme (CAP-CF), a multidisciplinary research centre at UQAM.  I also act as a member of the Public Policy Committee, an advisory body of the Association des Économistes Québécois. In the past, I have been active in the medias as a columnist and a commentator. I regularly act as a private consultant.

Prof.Bhumika Gupta is a Doctor of Philosophy and holds a PhD in the area of Human Resource Management from the University of Pau, France. She holds a position as Associate Professor in the area of Human Resource Management and post as Program Director of Master of Science in International Management. She works’ in the Department of Management, Marketing and Strategy atInstite Mines-Telecom BusinessSchool, Evry, France. She is also taught Master level course at University Paris Dauphine.

Her research explores a comparison of motivation levels in management practice between the traditional and virtual project teams, corporate culture and psychological contracts at work place. Prof. Bhumika GUPTA wrote several articles published in peer review academic ranked journals concerned with Human Resource Management, Organization Behaviour, Strategic Human Resource Management, and Corporate Social Responsibility. She has over 50 research articles and research conference in A, B and C ranked Journals. She is Working on many different government funded Research Projects in different nation including France, India and China.

Prof. Bhumika GUPTA has taught extensively in the Executive Education programs offered at TELECOM BUSINESS SCHOOL for CHINESE, INDIAN and MEXICAN delegation. She has over 14 years of experience in the area scientific research, teaching, executive training, conducting programs abroad and over 5 years of experience in corporate sector.

In collaboration Instite Mines-Telecom BusinessSchooland partners from United States, India China and UAE, Professor Bhumika GUPTA collaborates very closely for the projects with Northern Illinois University college of Business, USA, Virgina Tech, Boston University, Manhattan Institute of Management, Indian Institute of Technology -Bombay, Shailesh J. Mehta School of Management, Indian Institute of Technology -Delhi Department of Management studies, Indian Institute of Management -Lucknow and Indian Institute of Management –Kozikode, Institute of Management and Technology –Ghaziabad, Institute of Management and Technology –Dubai, Amrita University in Bangalore and Coimbatore, Alliance University, School of Management Bangalore, Pekin Normal University, Pekin University of Post and Telegraph, Lanzhou University, Pekin Technolgy and Business University and Northwestern Politechnical University, Xi’An.

Prof. GUPTAs’ Research and Teaching interest includes’ Human Resource Management, Organization Behavior, Strategic Human Resource Management, Corporate Social Responsibility, International Human Resource Management and Innovation and Change Management, HR Analytics, Organization Design, etc.

Rahul Vishwanath Karad is an enterprising young educationist in the forefront of the 68 institutes strong MAEER's MIT Group of Institutions, Pune with over 55,000 students under its fold. A graduate in engineering and a post graduate in management from Cardiff U.K, He is an alumnus of the Harvard Business School, U.S.A.

Rahul is advancing the inherited vision and mission of his visionary academician fatherProf. Dr. Vishwanath Karad(a visionary educationist of India and Founder and Executive President of MAEER's MIT Group of Institutions, Pune), with a fearless passion and deep rooted patriotic content in his heart. He holds a firm conviction in channelizing the power of youth to augment their active participation in our pluralistic democracy. His true nationalistic consciousness keeps finding expressions through numerous activities that he initiates and infuses a renewed sense of pride and patriotism amongst the young budding minds of India.

It takes lots of audacity, nurtured patriotic sentiments and strength of will to sow the seed to bring about transformation in a country where not many people think differently.Addressing his burning desire in contribution to Nation Building, prompted him trudge a new path reflecting in the shape ofMAEER’s MIT School of Government, thefirst institution of its kind not only in India but also in Asiato start a professional program for a career in Politics & Government. With his energized focus and genuine involvement the school is honing and nurturing the next generation of Indian Political Leaders and his efforts are appreciated, placed and valued in the national context. The school has increased manifold in stature and prestige by its concentrated efforts of strengthening the fabric of Indian Democratic Leadership.

He is also the driving force behindBharat Asmita National Awards,which are national level annual awards inspiring many a generation of management gurus, journalists and people in the forefront of Indian Parliamentary Practices for their meaningful contribution in the process of Nation Building. Rahul’s relentless efforts are driven by his foresight and conviction of "Education" being the strongest element of social and economic transformation.

In June 2007, Rahul V. Karad was conferredThe Hague Human Rights AwardbyGlobal Human Rights Defence (GHRD),an NGO based in the Netherlands. This award is conferred on young men and women who have contributed to the cause of promotion of human rights in different countries of the world.

Rahul V. Karad realizes that educational institutions provide an excellent platform to promote the cause of nation building and social commitment and actively encourages the students of the various institutions headed by him to participate in nationally and socially relevant activities.India is shaping up to be a superpower by the year 2040and Rahul V. Karad takes every effort to ensure that the youth of today work relentlessly to achieve this noble goal. In this regard“India the Super Power Vision 2040”First EverYoung Parliamentary Conferencewas organized by Rahul V. Karad on 9th August 2004 in Pune.

He expanded the canvas of MIT School of Government, by bringing out the classroom training to the thousands of common youth through an innovative platform, theBharatiya Chhatra Sansad(Indian Student Parliament). This is a youth movement for the transformation of society, for nurturing dreams and legitimate aspirations of the youth, for building the nation, and for intensifying the flame of Indian democratic leadership. The platform works with the objective of bringing the representation of youth in the mainstream of political and social democracy and imparts practical leadership training to prepare them for future leadership of the nation.

Dr.Guijun Liserves as Director of Center for Global Economy and Sustainable Development and Dean of Office of Research Administration at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE). His faculty background is in finance management and management science, and he is a professor in the School of Management Science and Engineering at CUFE. He has published numerous academic articles in urban sustainable development, water-energy-food nexus (WEF-nexus) and construction management. Now his research focuses on urban complex ecosystem, financing and investment of infrastructure. He has chaired and worked collaboratively on about 20 projects. He holds a PhD degree in management science and engineering from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Master degree in industry economics from Harbin University of Commerce. He is a visiting scholar at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Dr.Yulong Liis an associate professor and serves as Deputy Director of Global Economic and Sustainable Development Research Center at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE) in Beijing, China. He received his PhD from Harbin Institute of Technology, Heilongjiang, China, and his research interests concern infrastructure reliability, community resilience and community governance, engineering management and urban sustainable development. Yulong Li is a visiting scholar funded by China Scholarship Council (CSC) to Louisiana State University (LSU).He has more than 30 publications in multidisciplinary journals. He is an active member of several organizations including City Transformation and Innovation Research Committee of China Urban Studies Society and Engineering management Committee of Architectural Society of China. Previously, he worked as a project officer for the Administrative Center for China’s Agenda 21 for a year. He is also a communication reviewer of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation and was selected as Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher.

Dr.Liguang Liuserves as Deputy Director of the Center for Global Economy and Sustainable Development at Central University of Finance and Economics (CUFE). His faculty background is in public administration and climate policy, and he is an associate professor in the Department of Resource and Environmental Management in the School of Government at CUFE. Prior assuming his current position, Dr. Liguang Liu served as a policy analyst at Chinese Academy for Coal Sciences and a research fellow at the Economic Research Institute attached to Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission. Previously, he was, for two years, an assistant with Energy Management project in the EU-China Liaoning Integrated Environmental Program. He has published numerous academic articles in multi-disciplinary journals and his research focuses on education for energy policy, environmental governance, e-government and research methods. Recently, he has worked on a number of issues around higher education for sustainable development (HESD) and community resilience.He holds a PhD degree in Public Affairs from the Florida International University.

Mr.Raju Manthenahas been an entrepreneur started few initiatives including BluePal Solutions, USA where he currently serves as Founder & CEO for the last 15 years and also serves as Advisor & National Coordinator Strategy for MIT-World Peace University, India. With his passion of providing best services and solutions in IT and Educational sectors, he has been more focused on forward thinking, unique way of execution methodologies, marketing processes and management styles. Raju has MS in education and worked for 26 years in the industry including leading companies in Silicon Valley, California.

Dr.Petra Molthan-Hillleads the Green Academy at Nottingham Trent University since 2013, with the aim to include ESD related curricular and extra-curricular initiatives into the whole university, for example the internal online course offered to all 30.000 student at NTU: ‘Sustainability in Practice Certificate’ . She won ‘The Guardian University Award 2015 for Business Partnership’ (Greenhouse Gas Management Project) together with NetPositive Ltd and the Sustainability Professional Award in the Green Gown Awards 2016. Petra is also Associate Professor of Sustainable Management and Education for Sustainable Development at Nottingham Business School and was as NBS Sustainability Co-ordinator responsible for embedding sustainability and business ethics into the curriculum of the business school.Petra is the Co-Chair of the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) working group on climate change and environment. She is the editor of 'The Business Student's Guide to Sustainable Management' offeringseminars and other teaching material in how to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals in accounting, marketing, HR and other subjects in management/business studies but also ideas on how to teach system thinking, corporate peace-making and the crowdsourcing of sustainable solutions, which would be of interest to lecturers/students from other disciplines; the second edition is now part of the PRME book series and published by Routlegde. Petra is also the Academic Lead for PRME in Nottingham Business School, the Chair of the TILT group ‘Education for Sustainable Futures’ and the Lead for the Pedagogical Research of the Responsible and Sustainable Business Lab.

Prof.Michael Nobel, PhD, participated in the initial introduction of magnetic resonance imaging as vice president of Fonar Corp. and served as executive chairman of the Magnetkameran Group from 1991 to 2006,

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Dr.Yiyang Shenis senior Energy and Green Finance Consultant for ADB/UNDP on green investment field. At the same time he is also partner of Green Route Capital, and Green finance Expert at Financial Service Center of the China International Chamber of Commerce for the Private Sector (CICCPS). His current work is supporting energy/environment/infrastructure related loan and equity investment projects to achieve environmental target and mainstream MDG. Before joining ADB, Dr. Shen was a Program Manager of Energy & Environment Program in UNDP, responsible for management of UNDP-China’s programmes in areas of environment and energy with special focus on Clean Energy，transportation and eco-agriculture. Dr. Shen has been intensively involving in strategy, policy, technology and financing in energy, agriculture, transportation and environmental field in Europe and various Asian and African countries.

Monica Singhaniais Professor at Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, India. She is a graduate from Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), post-graduate from Delhi School of Economics (DSE) and a Fellow Member (FCA) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She has the distinction of securing All India Merit Rank 22^ndin ICAI examinations. She has been awarded Ph.D. in the area of corporate finance and taxation from the University of Delhi. She is the author of 7 books on direct tax laws and several research papers published in leading international journals. With over 20 years of teaching and research experience, Monica has taught in over 10 countries, written more than 20 international business cases and has spoken at over 100 national and international conferences, workshop, symposiums, faculty development programs and corporate training events. She teaches management accounting, management control systems and project management to MBA students at FMS. Monica mentors at Ashima Foundation, a registered not for profit organization, as she is deeply passionate about uplifting the underprivileged by upgrading their skills. She can be reached at monica@fms.edu

Dr.Sankar Sivarajahis a Reader (Associate Professor) in Technology Management and Circular Economy at the School of Management, University of Bradford, United Kingdom. He is also the current Head of Logistics, Supply Chain and Technology Research Centre. Prior to this role, he was a Lecturer in Operations and Information Systems Management and a Senior Research Fellow at the Business School in Brunel University London.

Sankar has published widely in leading international journals and continues to enjoy teaching at undergraduate, postgraduate and executive level. His current research interests include exploring the emergent role of digital technologies in the circular economy, information systems evaluation, and digital governance. He is an investigator of several multi-million-pound R&D projects funded by the European Commission (FP7, H2020, Marie Curie) addressing societal challenges surrounding themes such as Energy Efficient Smart Cities, Green Data Centres, Social Innovation and Participatory Budgeting.He actively publishes in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Business Research, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers in Human Behaviour and Government Information Quarterly and is also invited member of editorial advisory board of journals. His research has also been featured in leading media/trade publications such as Computer Weekly, PublicFinance, UKauthority etc.

He has a PhD in the area of technology management and evaluation from Brunel University London. Prior to his PhD, he was awarded a MSc in Management with distinction from Cass Business School (CASS), City University of London and a first-class honours BSc degree in Business and Management (Computing) from Brunel University. He was also awarded by CASS an honorary membership to the Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) society, an international honour society recognizing business excellence.

He is a member of British Academy of Management (BAM) and Association for Information Systems (AIS). He is also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Dr.Heidi Smithis a political economy expert studying the politics of trade, debt, taxes and fiscal policy in Latin America. Her research focuses on how governments fund their public programs at the local, state and federal level. Her recent publications have appeared in Dr. Smith has taught public policy classes in Washington DC (George Mason University), Miami (Florida International University) and Mexico City (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México).

Dr. Smith has a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from Florida International University, a Master’s degree in Public Policy from American University and a BA in Political Science, Spanish and Latin American Studies from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). She has extensive experience working with local and regional governments in Latin America as a consultant for international organizations (IDB, OAS, OECD) and serving in the U.S. government at the US Department of State and the Inter-American Foundation (IAF).

Prof.Jiutian Zhanggraduated from University of Science and Technology of China(USTC). He used to work in the Administrative Center for China's Agenda 21 and now is the deputy executive director of Green Development Institute, Beijing Normal University. Professor Zhang has been working in the field of climate change for 16 years and has taken charge of more than ten national projects and research such as "Key supporting technologies for the third national assessment report on climate change", "Integration of science and technology achievements and construction of service platform for tackling climate change", and "Research on China's strategy of tackling the development of climate change science and technology". As the head of the Chinese project, he took the lead in the smooth development of several international cooperation projects such as "China-UK Near Zero Emissions Coal Initiative project", "China Zambia/Garner renewable energy technology transfer cooperation project". He participated in the writing of "China's special scientific and technological action on climate change", "The '12th Five-Year' national special plan for the development of science and technology for climate change", "The national report on sustainable development of China" and other policy studies and reports. He sent the "Several suggestions on the coordinated development of energy and water in China" "the assessment of China's carbon dioxide utilization technology and its development proposals" to the Central State Council for Internal references.

As a member of the Chinese delegation, Professor Zhang has participated in the negotiations on the United Nations Convention on climate change for 2008-2016 years, and has undertaken to adapt to the negotiations on climate change and technology transfer. As a Chinese representative, he has kept close cooperation with international multilateral organizations such as IEA, CSLF, APN and other international organizations.