Professor of Operations, Information & Technology, Stanford University Hau L. Lee is the Thoma Professor of Operations, Information & Technology at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Co-Director of the Value Chain Innovation Initiative. His research focuses on value chain innovations to develop new business models and networks for value creation through effective management of the value chain. Professor Lee's works spans both global enterprises in developed and emerging countries, as well as entrepreneurs in developing economies. His areas of specialization include global value chain innovations, supply chain management, global logistics, inventory modeling, and environmental and social responsibility. Professor Lee has published widely in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, Supply Chain Management Review, IIE Transactions, and Interfaces, etc. He has served on the editorial boards of many international journals, such as Operations Research, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, IIE Transactions, Supply Chain Management Review, Sloan Management Review, and the Journal of Production and Operations Management. From 1997-2003, he was the Editor-in-Chief of Management Science. Professor Lee was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2010. He received the Harold Lardner Prize for International Distinction in Operations Research, Canadian Operations Research Society, 2003. He was elected a Fellow of Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, INFORMS, 2001; Production and Operations Management Society, 2005; and INFORMS, 2005. In 2006, he was President of the Production and Operations Management Society. Professor Lee obtained his B.Soc.Sc. degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Hong Kong in 1974, his M.Sc. degree in Operational Research from the London School of Economics in 1975, and his MS and PhD degrees in Operations Research from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983.
Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria Herbert Ntuli is a senior research fellow at the Environmental Policy Research Unit based in the School of Economics, University of Cape Town, and a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Cape Town, where he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow upon completion of his studies in 2015 for five years and as a senior research officer in 2021 for one year. Herbert also joined WWF South Africa in 2019 for two and a half years, working as a wildlife economics and policy analyst. His research interests include livelihood, environmental valuation, community-based wildlife conservation, institutions, wildlife governance, collective action, transboundary resources, integrated water resources management and energy.
Professor of Sociology, Gender Studies and Criminology, University of Otago Hugh has a long relationship with both the University of Otago and the Centre for Sustainability. He was an undergraduate at the University in the 1980s, and then completed a Masters in Social Anthropology at the university in 1988. He then spent time at Lincoln University where an academic interest in rural sociology, agriculture and sustainability began to form. Following completion of his PhD in Rural Sociology at the Centre for Rural Social Research, Charles Sturt University, New South Wales, he returned to the University of Otago in 1994 and developed university courses on rural society in New Zealand and on the global politics of food. In 2000, he was appointed founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the University of Otago – the centre that subsequently grew into the Centre for Sustainability. During his career at Otago, Hugh has had leadership roles in many research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MSI). From 1995–2002, he was the Programme Leader of an MSI-funded programme, Greening Food: Social and Industry Dynamics. This programme examined the social and economic dimensions of developing sustainable agriculture in New Zealand. Specifically, the programme examined the development of organic production and Integrated Pest Management systems by food export organisations like Zespri and ENZA. After 2003, Hugh co-led the social research team in the MSI-funded Agriculture Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) Programme. Working with the kiwifruit, dairy, and sheep/beef sectors, the ARGOS programme brought together 30 researchers from Otago and Lincoln Universities, and from the Agribusiness Group in Christchurch. It undertook a long-term study of social, economic and environmental dynamics on a group of over 100 farms and orchards in New Zealand. That project was extended through 2013–2018 as the NZ Sustainability Dashboard project. From 2009–2014, Hugh was co-PI of the Marsden fund project Biological Economies: Making and Knowing New Rural Values. This project brought together researchers from across rural sociology and geography in New Zealand and resulted in the publication of two collections: Biological Economies: Experimentation and the politics of agri-food frontiers (2016) The New Biological Economy. How New Zealanders are creating value from the land (2018) As a researcher, Hugh has published work on the social and economic dynamics of 'greening' food systems, the politics of sustainability under neoliberal governance, achieving sustainability via audits, food waste, transitions in agriculture and food systems in New Zealand, and theories of global food regimes. In 2020, he published a book with Bloomsbury Academic –Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences – on the agency of farms in the colonisation of New Zealand, the creation of modernist farming as the dominant for of land-use in New Zealand, and the many ways in which alternatives to modernist farming are emerging. The book is available on open access at www.bloomsburycollections.com
Associate Professor of Communication, University of Colorado Denver Hamilton Bean, Ph.D., MBA, APR, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Denver. He also serves as Director of the University of Colorado Denver’s International Studies Program. He specializes in the study of communication and security. Since 2005, he has been affiliated with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) – a U.S. Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence. His research has been published in numerous international academic journals and edited volumes, and he has won multiple awards for scholarship from the National Communication Association.
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oklahoma State University Dr. Haruka Nagao teaches and conducts research in the fields of comparative public policy and politics. Her/their research interests include health policy, gender and politics, and Asian politics with a focus on gender and health policy in Asia. Her/their work explores an intersection of gender inequalities, health policies, and public opinion through comparative policy analyses, survey data, and fieldwork interviews. Her/their recent work examines the roles of social networks and health institutional investments in healthcare access inequality in China.
Associate professor - Law, University of Auckland Hanna Wilberg is an Associate Professor in the Law School at the University of Auckland. Her research interests lie mainly in two areas: administrative law and the tort liability of public authorities. She also has an interest in public law more generally, particularly statutory interpretation, Bill of Rights, discrimination and Treaty of Waitangi issues. She has published in leading UK and Australian journals and edited collections in these areas. In her administrative law work, one of her main objectives is to help increase the availability of scholarly analysis of New Zealand law in this area, informed by engagement with relevant overseas jurisdictions. In her work on tort liability of public authorities, she addresses an audience across the main common law jurisdictions. She is currently writing a book on The Principles of Administrative Law in Aotearoa New Zealand, to be published by Hart in 2024. She is also the New Zealand Law Review’s contributor of scholarly reviews of recent developments in Administrative Law. Hanna's new teaching initiative since 2021 is a course on Social Welfare Law, Policy and Action. This includes a clinical component, offering students the opportunity to write submissions on applications for review under the Social Security Act. Before joining the Auckland faculty in 2004, Hanna taught at Southampton University in the UK. She was a research assistant to Professor Paul Craig at Oxford; a Judges' Clerk for Richardson P and Tipping, Blanchard, Keith, Thomas, Gault and Henry JJ at the Court of Appeal in Wellington; and practiced law at the Crown Law Office.
