Patrick Vermeulen
Keynote Speaker

Biography
Patrick Vermeulen is professor of Strategic Management and International Management at Radboud University. He is specialized in the strategic behavior of organizations in their institutional context as well as in organizational change and innovation. Current projects include strategic responses to institutional change, transitions and institutional complexity as well as innovation and growth in developing countries (and base of the pyramid). In his work he uses varied methodologies, but with an emphasis on qualitative research. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Studies, Strategic Organization, Research Policy, Long Range Planning, and the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He has published books on Entrepreneurial Decision Making, Innovation and Institutions, and Strategic Challenges at the Base of the Pyramid. He also has his own consulting company in which he focuses on strategy and organizational development for a variety of organizations in the public and private sector.

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Yoshitaka Okada
Event Organizer

Biography
Yoshitaka Okada is Professor of Sociology and Business, Director at the Institute for International Strategy, and Director in Center for Corporate Social Responsibility and Inclusive Business at Tokyo International University. He is also Professor Emeritus at Sophia University. His main area of specialization is the socio-economics of development and innovation, covering such areas as corporate social responsibility (CSR), poverty-reducing business activities (BOP and inclusive business) in developing countries, the national innovation system, and Japan’s competitive-cum-cooperative management system. He is an editorial board member of Japan Forum (the official journal of the British Association for Japanese Studies) and was also an editorial board member of the Oxford-University-Press-published Socio-Economic Review until 2013. In the past, he participated in international projects, conducted by Professor Rogers Hollingsworth (UW-Madison), the World Bank, and the United Nations University, He has been a visiting scholar, to conduct research on high-tech industries in foreign countries, at University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison, 1998), Cambridge and Oxford Universities (2001), and the Max-Planck Institute-Cologne (2008), and also taught as an invited professor at UW-Madison (U.S.), University of Victoria (Canada), Carleton University (Canada), Helsinki School of Business and Economics (Finland), and De La Salle University (the Philippines). He has quite many publications of journal articles, book and book chapters. For details, please see /iis/members/okada.html.

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Samuel Amponsah

Biography
Samuel Amponsah obtained his Ph.D. in Economics at Tokyo International University in 2014. He was awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for Foreign Research, in FY 2014-2015. He is Associate Professor of World Economy and Statistics at the Institute for International Strategy, Tokyo International University. He conducts research on education, poverty, health insurance, labour and inclusive business issues in Africa. He has consistently presented his research works at international and domestic conferences, including the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) Annual Meeting in the United States of America, the Japan Economic Association Annual Conference and the Western Economic Association International. Some of his research have been published in various refereed journals, such as the Journal of African Development and Perspective on Global Development and Technology. He is the current President of the African Finance and Economics Association and Associate Editor of the Journal of African Development.

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Bhaskar Chakrabarti

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Bhaskar Chakrabarti, Professor in the Public Policy & Management Group at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta studied social anthropology at Calcutta and Cambridge, and received Interdisciplinary Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. With a core competency in evaluation of institutional environment towards implementation of government projects, Chakrabarti synthesises knowledge from various disciplines to foster innovation in practical challenges of governance. His work on decentralization titled Participation at the Crossroads (Orient Blackswan, 2016) is listed as a featured book on service delivery by the Commonwealth Knowledge Hub. He has worked as a Consultant to the federal government of India, to regional governments in the states of West Bengal and Orissa, and to International organisations like UNICEF on analysis of cluster level resource centres, effectiveness of local governments, public-private partnerships, restructuring of co-operatives, and microfinance programmes for marginal groups. He has published, amongst others, in Journal of South Asian Development, Review of Development and Change, Government Information Quarterly, and Journal of Rural Development. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of Decision (Springer) during 2012-14 and as Editor of Journal of Human Values (Sage) during 2014-18. He is a Member of the Board of Commonwealth Local Government Forum, London, and member of the Indian Council of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute.

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Shekhar Chaudhuri

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Prof. Shekhar Chaudhuri is a doctorate in Management from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and is currently Director and Chair Professor in Strategic Management at Calcutta Business School, Kolkata, India. Previously he was Director, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and Professor of Business Policy at IIM Ahmedabad.

He has been a Senior Fulbright Fellow at U. C. Berkely, U.SA and a Visiting Scholar at the Twente University of Technology, Enschede, Netherlands. During 1989-91 he was a Visiting Professor in the College of Business and Administration, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Illinois, USA and a Visiting Professor at ESCP (Paris School of Management), Paris, France during October- December, 1997.

During the mid 90s he was invited by The World Bank to lead the India part of a multi- country study on “Institutional and Policy Priorities for Industrial Technology Development” and later as a consultant. He pioneered research in the area of Management of Technology at IIM Ahmedabad and is the author or co-author of a large number of research articles, working papers and cases in the areas of Strategic Management and Management of Technology and Technology Acquisition and Assimilation.

During 2006-2007 he was elected as the President of the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) and has been and is currently on the boards of several organizations and educational institutions of repute. In 2009 he received the prestigious MIT-MAEER’s Bharat Asmita Acharya Shreshtha Award (Best Teacher in Management) from the Vice-President of India and in 2012 he received the Ravi J. Mathai National Fellowship Award from AIMS.

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Tomonaga Horiguchi

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Dr. Tomonaga Horiguchi graduated with his Doctorate from Georg-August-University’s Faculty of Business and Economics in 2007. He was a Research Associate at the Japan Center and Faculty of Business at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich from 2006 to 2009. He became a Specially Appointed Lecturer at Osaka City University’s Urban Research Plaza in 2009. In 2014, he became an Associate Professor at the Department of British and American Studies at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies where he is serving as a Liaison Officer (Vice-President treatment) since 2018. His has written an article on risk management for BOP Businesses in 2015 alongside his other works, including his book on economic rationality and foreign direct investment behavior of Japanese companies published in 2008.

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Naomi Inoue

Biography
Researcher, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (IDE-JETRO)

Naomi is a researcher at IDE-JETRO, Institute of Developing Economies and Japan External Trade Organization. Her research field is business and human rights, responsible business conduct, inclusive business, and business and development. More recently, she has been engaging a research project on innovation and development in East Africa. Another ongoing research project is on Japanese corporations' responsible business conduct in Japan and overseas and she has been promoting business and human rights issues among Japanese stakeholders. She has more than 10 years of experiences of strategic business development in ICT related products and services in Asia, inclusive business development in private business in Kenya and NGO in Philippines, and development assistance in some African countries including Ethiopia and Mozambique. She holds a master's degree in Responsible Business and Sustainable Development from University for Peace (Costa Rica) and Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines).

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Partha Sarathi Roy

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Prof. Partha Sarathi Roy is a doctorate in Management from the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) and presently working as Assistant Professor in the School of Management & Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University (SNU), Greater Noida, India. At SNU he teaches courses on Design Thinking, Entrepreneurship and Qualitative Research. His research interests lie at the intersecting domain of strategic management, entrepreneurship and innovation. His thesis was grounded in the domain of social entrepreneurship wherein he tried to enrich the scaling-up literature of social enterprises from a strategic perspective. He has presented research papers at various prestigious international peer reviewed conferences. Apart from his doctoral work, he was part of a national level research project on understanding innovations in Indian MSMEs from an ecosystem perspective funded by an International Development Agency.

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Sumire Stanislawski

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Sumire Stanislawski obtained her Bachelor of Business Administration degree in 2004 with a major in Marketing and Management & Organization Studies at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada. She came to Japan in 2006 to pursue her graduate education at Waseda University. She majored in Labour Economics for her Master of Arts degree and majored in Marketing Theory for her doctoral program. She was a research associate for Waseda University’s Faculty of Commerce from 2012 to 2014, and is currently an associate professor for the Institute for International Strategy (IIS) at Tokyo International University. Her primary research interest is sustainability in marketing and consumption. Current research topics include socially responsible consumers, cause-related marketing, and ouen consumption. She has presented at the Association of Consumer Research in the US and various marketing conferences in Japan.

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