Prof. Lisa Magnani, Head of Department of Economics, Macquarie University, Australia
She is Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her education includes a Doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Bologna (1993) and a PhD in Economics from Yale University (1996). Her academic work has focused on understanding how capitalist economies create and retain jobs, support wages, promote good working conditions and pursue technological innovation in globalised settings. Over the years, she has developed an interdisciplinary research agenda centred on the exploration of the ways work conditions and labour market institutions impact societal resilience and ecological sustainability. Her current and past service roles in Australia include Head of the Department of Economics at Macquarie University, Macquarie University Business School Gender, Equity and Inclusion Committee, Vice-President (Academic) of the Economic Society of Australia-NSW Branch, Member of the Academic Reference Panel for Treasury’s Participation Modelling Project, Australian Federal Government.
Prof. Clifford J. Shultz, Quinlan School of Business, Loyola University Chicago, the US
He is Professor and Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Quinlan School of Business, at Loyola University Chicago. He received his Ph.D., M. Phil. and M.A. from Columbia University in the City of New York. He also has taught at the Columbia University Graduate Business School, University of Zagreb, University of Rijeka, Swedish School of Economics, University of Western Australia, University of Munich. He has expertise on marketing, policy, and sustainable development in transforming economies, particularly the transitioning/recovering economies of Southeast Asia, the Balkans, Latin America and the Middle East. He is also Associate Editor of Journal of Macromarketing and Journal of Public Policy & Marketing.
Mr. Francois Painchaud, IMF Resident Representative, Vietnam/Lao PDR
Francois joined the IMF in 2009 and was previously the IMF Resident Representative in Georgia. He worked on a number of countries, including Russia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Pakistan, Senegal, and Myanmar. Francois holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in economics from the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada.
Invited Speaker: Abel Duarte Alonso, Ph.D, RMIT University, Australia
Abel D. Alonso earned his Ph.D. degree at Lincoln University, New Zealand, studying the nation’s wine industry and its linkages to international and domestic tourism. He extensively studied other aspects of the industry prior and thereafter, including involvement in exports, innovation, resilience, collaboration, tradition, and knowledge management, predominantly from micro and small wineries. Abel is passionate about conducting research on family, micro, small, and medium enterprises, and has done so in Australia, Argentina, Chile, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay. He has published many publications in high quality international journals on his areas