Dr. Tickell is a Full Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He earned his Ph.D Monash University, and CPA qualification in 2006. He was the author of several articles on the topics of economic reform, and learning styles in higher education, in five leading academic journals.

Dr. Manzler earned his PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He has taught undergraduate and graduate finance classes at Suffolk University in Boston, the University of Cincinnati, and Miami University. Dr. Manzler also has work experience in the financial industry, having worked as a financial analyst, portfolio manager, and brokerage officer for over 12 years.

Dr. Osei-Hwere was an Associate professor at West Texas A&M University. She received a Ph.D in Mass Communication from the Scripps College of Communication at Ohio University. Dr. Osei-Hwere’s research interests include international communication, media globalization, entertainment education, women and children’s media issues, world broadcasting systems as well as communication development and social change.

Dr. Joseph C. Thompson is a Professor of US History and Political Science. He earned his PhD from the University of Florida. He taught at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, Florida between 1994 and 2000 and has been teaching at Montgomery College in Germantown, Maryland since August of 2000.

Dr. Chinta is a Professor of Management, Huizenga College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Nova Southeastern University. He earned his Ph.D. in Strategic Management. Ravi has 41 years of work experience. Dr. Chinta has extensive global business experience in strategic business development.

Dr. Yao earned his PhD in physics at The University of Texas at Dallas. There he joined the Cosmology, Relativity, and Astrophysics research group and started to work on cosmology. Scientifically, Ji mainly works on the self-calibration of the intrinsic alignments of galaxies, under the topic of cosmology. As the first author, he has one published paper on JCAP, a second paper that is currently under review by MNRAS, and a third paper in preparation. His major interest is the cosmic acceleration problem.

Dr. Pierre Miège is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Center for China Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, after being an Associate Professor of Sociology at Beijing Normal University (China) between 2007 and 2019, and from 2019 to 2023 director of the French Center for Research on Contemporary China in Hong Kong and director of publication of the SSCI journal China Perspectives. For his PhD, Dr. Miège studied the social organization of Chinese cities up to the early 2000s, particularly the central role of workplaces in arranging the relationship between society and the party state. From 2005, he engaged in research about high-risk behavior and the HIV epidemic, especially among same-sex attracted men. Currently, he is building on the knowledge collected through these different projects to question the transformation of social norms and the emergence of the individual in a changing urban society. His research has been published in major international journals, such as PLOS ONE, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Culture, Health and Sexuality, and Asia Pacific Viewpoint.

Dr. Audrey Meador has been a mathematics educator for 15 years having joined the faculty at West Texas A&M University (WTAMU) in the fall of 2012. She earned a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction in Mathematics Education at Texas Tech University. For the 2016-17 school year, Dr. Meador was presented the Teaching Excellence Award for the School of Engineering, Computer Science, and Mathematics and the Instructional Excellence Award for the university at large at West Texas A&M.