Associate Professor, SKK Business School, Department of FinTech, Sungkyunkwan University Byung Hwa Lim is an Associate Professor of Finance at SKK Business School and the Department of FinTech at Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Science from KAIST and has previously served at The University of Suwon and Korea Economic Research Institution (KERI). Professor Lim’s research interests include portfolio optimization, asset pricing, market microstructure, blockchain and crypto-assets, fintech, and machine learning in finance. Lim's works have been published in various economics, business, and finance journals. Lim is currently working on individual investors' investment behavior in the cryptocurrency market and examining the reinforcement learning method in portfolio management. He teaches courses on blockchain applications, credit risk modeling, and investments, blending theoretical knowledge with practical insights.
Professor of Political Economy, University of Warwick Ben recently won a highly prestigious Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship for a project entitled, ‘The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and the Politics of UK Growth amidst Brexit, Uncertainty and Austerity’. This will run from October 1st 2018 to September 30th 2021. Ben's wider research interests lie in comparative and international political economy, and he has published widely on the IMF, French and comparative capitalisms, the politics of economic ideas, capital mobility and economic policy autonomy, the political economy of social democracy, and French and British politics in journals including The British Journal of Political Science, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of European Public Policy, The Review of International Political Economy, New Political Economy, Party Politics, and Political Studies.
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington Brian Diettrich (PhD, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) is an internationally recognised ethnomusicologist and a specialist in music and dance of the Pacific Islands. Working at the intersection of ethnography and history, Brian's research reimagines the capacity of music within culture, society, and place. His research interests and publications explore Indigenous performance and decolonisation, ecomusicology and environment, as well as musical instruments, recordings and archives, film and popular music, and online music communities. Brian has held numerous research leadership positions both nationally and internationally. He serves on the Executive Board of the International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance (A Non-Governmental Organization in Formal Consultative Relations with UNESCO), and he is currently chair of local arrangements for the 48th ICTMD World Conference to be held in Wellington in 2025, a historic first for New Zealand. He chairs the ICTMD prize committee, is a former chair (2015–2021) of its Oceania Study Group, and a recent co-chair of the 47th ICTMD World Conference held at the University of Ghana in 2023. As part of his work facilitating new research initiatives, Brian has curated a philanthropic-funded research award for Indigenous scholars and a new international prize for emerging researchers. Brian has undertaken research collaborations with the East-West Center (Honolulu), the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, the University of Ghana, the Pacific History Association, and he has held residencies as visiting scholar at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, National Taiwan Normal University, and Nara University of Education in Japan. Brian's research has been profiled by the Society for Ethnomusicology for its “Ethnomusicology Today” podcast series. He is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Lyrebird Press (University of Melbourne), and at VUW he is a member of the Joint Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Brian is a regular consultant for international funding bodies as well as cultural organizations in the Asia-Pacific region. As part of his community leadership, Brian is a member of the Wellington Advocate Network, which fosters events and industry opportunities. In 2022, Brian's work received the Research Excellence Award from Victoria University of Wellington. An advocacy for the peoples and expressions of Oceania has underscored much of Brian’s publications. He has undertaken research projects in the Federated States of Micronesia, Palau, the Marshall Islands, on Guam, among migrant communities in Hawai‘i, as well as in Aotearoa. His long-term research the islands of Chuuk since 2000 has resulted in numerous publications. His book projects include the co-authored book, "Music in Pacific Island Cultures" (OUP 2011), including a Chinese language edition, and the co-edited volume, "Perspectives in Motion: Engaging the Visual in Dance and Music" (Berghahn 2021). Brian is currently leading two funded projects: "Listening with Shell, Wood, and Fibre: Decolonisation through Musical Instruments" (2021-2022) and "Musical Travels in Nan’yō" (2020-2022), which will edit and publish an English translation of Hisao Tanabe's historical writings on Pacific music. Brian is currently preparing a new introductory edited volume at the invitation of Cambridge University Press.
Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Coastal Water Resources, Dalhousie University Dr. Kurylyk's areas of research include physical hydrology and hydrogeology. In particular, his research program investigates how hydrologic systems respond to environmental change and the interactions between aquifers and surface water bodies. Due to the transdisciplinary nature of this work, his research often interfaces with many other disciplines including geology, biology, oceanography, climatology, and mathematics.
Professor Emeritus (Psychology), Charles Sturt University Ben gained his first degree in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford, and his PhD from Edinburgh University. He has taught psychology on three continents, won ARC and NH&MRC grants in Australia, as well as grants from Harvard University and the British Academy. He was the Foundation Professor of Psychology at Charles Sturt University (1998-2017). His books include the widely-translated Visions of Infancy (1989, Polity), Psychology and Experience (2005, CUP), and his latest: Darwin's Psychology: The Theatre of Agency (2020, OUP). Research highlights include studies with Jane Selby and Michael Smithson, proving young infants can participate in social groups before they form their first attachment to an adult; and, on the literary structure of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). His film Darwin's Babies, received its world premiere at Darwin 2009: A Celebration of the Bicentenary of Darwin's Birth in Cambridge, UK.
Doctorant en Science politique, Université de Lorraine Travaille sur l'extrême droite en Autriche et plus généralement intéressé par les partis politiques au niveau européen.
