Keynote Speakers

 

 

Professor Franco Gandolfi
Georgetown University, USA


Brief Introduction: Senior university leader, executive board member, published author, serial entrepreneur, public speaker, and international consultant, Prof. Dr. Franco Gandolfi is currently the Distinguished Professor in Management at the California Institute of Advanced Management (CIAM) in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Gandolfi previously served as the Inaugural Campus Director and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (PVC) of Iqra University’s Bahria Town Campus in Karachi, Pakistan, as CEO of Lancaster University in Ghana, and as a Member of the Executive Board of the Nguyen Hoang Group (NHG), a conglomerate of business units in the education space in Vietnam. Prior to his roles in Pakistan, Ghana, and Vietnam, he served as the Vice-Chancellor (VC) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Manipal International University (MIU) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Previously, he had held deanships and senior professorial appointments at the Canadian University of Dubai, UAE, the University of the South Pacific, Fiji, California Baptist University in Riverside, California, and Central Queensland University in Sydney, Australia. Furthermore, Prof. Dr. Franco Gandolfi holds a full professorship in leadership with Georgetown University in Washington DC, one of the world’s most renowned research universities.
 

 

Prof. Ran Zhang

Renmin University of China

Brief Introduction: "Outstanding Young Scholar" of Renmin University of China; For four consecutive years (2020-2023), he/she has been awarded the title of "China Highly Cited Scholar" by Elsevier. I taught at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University from 2006 to 2019. Currently, I am a member of the first Enterprise Accounting Standards Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Finance and serve as an independent director and chairman of the Audit Committee of BYD Co., Ltd.

Professor Zhang Ran's research focuses on fundamental quantitative investment, private equity, and financial accounting. In August 2017, a monograph titled "Fundamental Quantitative Investment" was published, which ranked first in the "Investment and Wealth Management" category of Amazon Books' new product ranking within a week of its publication. In top international academic journals Journal of Financial Economics, The Accounting Review, Journal of International Business Studies  Published over 30 papers in top domestic journals such as Economic Research, Management World, and Accounting Research. The research results have been noticed and reported by international mainstream media such as The New York Times, CNBC, Bloomberg.

 

 

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