Nick Hand qualified with the ACCA in 1993, holds a Masters degree in Operational Research and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Nick is Director of Partnerships and International in the University of Greenwich Business School. He was previously the Head of Department of Accounting and subsequently spent six years posted overseas, based in China, developing the Business School’s international partnerships. He has substantial experience in the development of academic programmes both at the UK campus and at partner institutions internationally and particular in the South-East/East Asia region.

Nick’s research interests are in the areas of efficiency measurement and his publications are mainly in this area and particularly in the area of the application of mathematical models of measuring bank efficiency.

- John Bruce Wells is Deloitte’s Chief of Party for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program (V-LEEP) that helps assess and implement policies that accelerate deployment of solutions that promote clean energy in Vietnam. 

Prior to serving USAID on several programs in Asia, he was a Partner with ERM Indonesia, the President of Citizens International, and the Director of Private Sector Initiatives for Chemonics. In these roles he helped global companies such as BP, Exxon Mobil and Vale meet their corporate sustainability commitments in developing country operations. He was also founder and President of The Bruce Company, a two-time Inc. 500 firm that helped launch premier partnerships such as Energy Star; and helped launch the U.S. Green Building Council which operates the LEED building certification program.

Prof.Dr. Su Dinh Thanh - Principal of University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City
Former Editor-in-Chief  of the Journal of Asian Business and Econonomic Studies (JABES)
Mr. Su has over 30 years of teaching and research experience in finance and banking. Recently, Mr. Su has a significant contribution to developing JABES as a Vietnam’s first international journal, which is published on Emerald.
He has been serving academies and universities, and giving lectures and seminars to several universities, and invited by many universities to present papers or conduct seminars. He is the chairman of international conference ACBES (UEH) in 2018, 2019 and 2020.

He has published 10 books and published more than one hundred papers including papers published in Economic Analysis and Policy, Research in International Business and Finance, International Economics, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Centre of Sociological Research, Finance Research Letters, Climate and Development, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Theoretical Economics Letters, Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies, Review of development finance, International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, Economic Systems, Journal of Economic Development.