Greg RICHARDS

Greg RICHARDS is Professor of Placemaking and Events at Breda University and Professor of Leisure Studies at the University of Tilburg in The Netherlands. His recent publications include Reinventing the Local in Tourism (with Paolo Russo), Small Cities with Big Dreams: Creative Placemaking and Branding Strategies (with Lian Duif) and Rethinking Cultural Tourism.

Tara DUNCAN

Tara DUNCAN’s academic background is in social and cultural geography. Her undergraduate degree is in Geography from the University of Wales, Lampeter, Wales. Her MSc (Modernity, Space and Place) and PhD were completed in the Department of Geography at UCL, London, UK. Tara is the 2023 recipent of The John Rooney Award for outstanding contributions to the field and discipline of Applied Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Geography (http://www.aagrts.org/wolfe-and-rooney-awards.html) awarded by the AAG-RTS. Tara is the current Chair of ATLAS (the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (see http://www.atlas-euro.org/home), a European based organization that promotes educational initiatives in tourism and leisure through facilitating research and networking opportunities for staff and students in higher education. She is also an editorial board member for the journal Social and Cultural Geography and a Resource Editor for Tourism Geographies. Tara's research focuses on the intersections between mobilities, work and tourism, with a focus on decent work, dignity and sustainability within tourism and hospitality careers.

Sébastien POINT

Since 2009, Sébastien POINT is full professor at EM Strasbourg Business School, Université de Strasbourg (France) where he teaches International Human Resource Management and International Management. Every year, he teaches in international programs to a wide international audience. For 7 years (2016-2023) he has led the Research Center HuManiS (EM Strasbourg – University of Strasbourg) which concentrates 50 active and productive researchers.
His research centers on organizational discourse and over the past years, he has been researching diversity and many other topics. He has a great interest in qualitative research and regularly runs seminars on NVivo for beginners and advanced researchers. He has published in journals like Business Ethics, Long Range Planning and Organizational Research Methods,
He has been visiting scholar at Cranfield University (UK) over the period 2002-2007 and he has been an adjunct Professor at PennState University (US). He also has been a Visiting Professor at Brennan School of Management (Chicago, (US), Bucharest (RO), Porto (P), Seoul (KR) Southampton (UK), and Hô-Chi Minh City (VN).

Stanislav IVANOV

Dr Stanislav IVANOV (‘Stan’) is a Professor in Tourism Economics at Varna University of Management and Director of Zangador Research Institute. He is the founder and the (co-)Editor-in-chief of two academic journals: the European Journal of Tourism Research (indexed in Scopus and Web of Science) and ROBONOMICS: The Journal of the Automated Economy. Additionally, he serves on the editorial and review boards of over 30 other journals. He authored over 200 publications (books, book chapters, articles, conference reports, book reviews, and industry reports) in the field of robonomics, robotics, artificial intelligence and service automation, hotel marketing, hotel chains, pricing and revenue management, destination marketing and management, tourism’s impact on economic growth, political issues in tourism. Stan keeps close links with the tourism business. He has been several times a lecturer at the largest events for tourism professionals in Bulgaria – Travel Academy, Hotel Investment Forum, and Destination Varna. Through Zangador Ltd., Stan conducts trainings in Hotel marketing, Pricing and revenue management, Marketing audit, etc., implements marketing research projects, and prepares specialised analyses and reports for various companies. He has specialised in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Norway, Cyprus, USA, and Italy.

Morris ALTMAN

Morris Altman is Dean and Chair Professor of Behavioural and Institutional Economics, and Co-operatives at the University of Dundee Business School (UK). Previously, he was Dean and Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia (2014–2019), and Head of the School of Economics and Finance at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2009–2014). He is also Professor Emeritus at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, where he was elected Head of Economics for nearly two decades. He earned his PhD in Economics from McGill University in 1984. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Canterbury (Erkine Professor), Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Hebrew, Stirling, and Stanford. He served as Editor of the Journal of Socio-Economics for a decade and co-founded the Review of Behavioral Economics. He also launched the Elsevier book series Perspectives on Behavioural Economics and chairs the board of the Scottish University Press. A prolific scholar, Morris has published 120+ refereed papers, 20 books, and delivered 200+ international presentations on behavioral economics, x-inefficiency, institutional change, economic history, and ethics. His books include Behavioral Economics for Dummies, Economic Growth and the High-Wage Economy, and Real-World Decision Making. He has secured multiple research grants and served as President of the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics and the Association for Social Economics.

Benno TORGLER

Benno Torgler received his Ph.D. from the University of Basel in Switzerland and is a Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology and is the Director of the ARC Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption (BITA). He was an Honorary Professor at the University of Newcastle in Australia and an Adjunct Professor at the EBS University in Germany. In 2011 he was awarded the Australian Research Council Future Fellowship, and in 2015 was elected into the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. In 2019 he was listed in The Australian among 40 top researchers in Australia (lifetime achievement). He is the recipient of the Amerbach-Prize (University of Basel). In addition, he is a Research Fellow at the Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA) in Switzerland, a Fellow of the CESifo Research Network in Germany, a Senior Fellow of the Institut für Schweizer Wirtschaftspolitik (IWP), and a Research Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). Before joining QUT, I was a Research Affiliate and Lecturer at Yale (2004-2006), a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley (2006), and a Visiting Scholar at Georgia State University (2003-2004). He has published more than 300 scientific contributions, and he is among the most cited social scientists in Australia. His work has been discussed in more than 400 newspapers and (scientific) magazines worldwide include TIME magazine, The New York, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ScienceNews, Scientific American, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Spiegel, and even VanityFair. One investigation was evaluated among the 100 stories of year 2010 in Discover magazine (“A special report on the 100 most amazing discoveries from the past year- the ideas and breakthroughs that are reshaping our understanding of the world around us”). He has advised organizations such as the World Bank, IP Australia, ATO, ASIC, Suncorp, and the government of Papua New Guinea, and has collaborated tax administrations in countries such as Australia, Switzerland, and Indonesia. He taught courses at universities in Australia, Europe, and the US.