Contributors

Vineet Thakur

Assistant Professor, International Relations, Leiden University

Assistant Professor, International Relations, Leiden University Vineet Thakur is a university lecturer at the Institute for History, Leiden University. He writes on international relations, South Asia and southern Africa.

Victor Martínez de Albéniz

Profesor de IESE en operaciones, información y tecnología, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra)

Profesor de IESE en operaciones, información y tecnología, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) Víctor Martínez de Albéniz is a full professor in IESE’s Department of Production, Technology and Operations Management. He joined IESE in 2004 after earning a Ph.D. at the Operations Research Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an engineering degree at École Polytechnique in France. His research is on broad operations management. He started his career working on procurement and supply issues, where a balanced sourcing portfolios can provide low cost, flexibility, and innovation opportunities. He has spent the last 15 years working on retail topics, where he has developed models for fashion trends (apparel, music, etc.) and optimized operations in volatile markets. He is currently interested in the interface of firm operations with consumers, and this includes the design of retail touchpoints, the management of experiences, and the use of repeated interactions to drive consumer behavior. His work has been published in journals such as Management Science, Operations Research, Manufacturing and Services Operations Management, or Production and Operations Management. He has received support by the European Research Council (ERC), the Spanish Ministry of Economics and Competitiveness, and La Caixa foundation. In 2015 he was awarded the Sabadell Herrero prize for Economic Research and in 2018 the MSOM Young Scholar Prize. He is also a Department Editor of Management Science and has been a member of the editorial boards of Manufacturing and Services Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. In addition, Prof. Martínez de Albéniz teaches IESE courses on operations management, operations strategy, advanced methods for operations and new product development, both at the executive and MBA levels. He has also taught at other schools such as MIT, MDE (Côte d’Ivoire) or the Indian School of Business.

Vincent Georgie

Marketing Faculty, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor

Marketing Faculty, Odette School of Business, University of Windsor Vincent is Executive Director and Chief Programmer of the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF). He joined the Board of Directors of WIFF in 2009 and served as Director of Marketing. In 2013, he was appointed Executive Director & Chief Programmer. WIFF is the largest volunteer-run film festival in Canada, an official partner of the Toronto International Film Festival, and now welcomes an audience of 45,000+ to Windsor-Essex annually. Vincent was invited to jury TIFF's annual Canada's Top 10, in 2023. Dr Georgie proudly joined the University of Windsor in 2009, where he has served as Associate-Vice President External (2020-2023), proudly opening the historic Armouries as Director of the School of Creative Arts (2017-2020), leading the Odette MBA Program (2013-2017) and continues his permanent role as a professor of Marketing (since 2009) and returns to lead the School of Creative Arts later in April 2024. Vincent's research interests are: Marketing of Arts and Culture Film and Film festivals Cultural leadership Awards campaigns and film industry marketing strategy Consumer behaviour Consumption and materialism Originally from Montréal, Dr Georgie holds a PhD in Marketing.

Vikram Visana

Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester

Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Leicester I joined the School of History, Politics and International Relations as a Lecturer in Political Theory in May 2022. Before this, I was a Dahlem Postdoctoral Fellow at the Free University of Berlin and worked as a historian of political thought at the Universities of Huddersfield and Edinburgh. At Leicester, I'm also the Admissions Tutor for Politics & International Relations. My major research to date has focussed on Indian liberalism with my first book, Uncivil Liberalism: Labour, Capital and Commercial Society in Dadabhai Naoroji's Political Thought (2022) exploring the contribution of Indian liberalism to global ideas of sociality and political economy. I have since worked on article-length pieces on the political thought of the founder of Hindu nationalism, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. More recently, my second book-length project has turned to political emotion and republicanism in the political theory of the Global South with a particular focus on humiliation as a form of political domination.

Vera Wagner

Research Assistant, Mathematics Teaching and Learning Lab, Concordia University

Research Assistant, Mathematics Teaching and Learning Lab, Concordia University Vera Wagner holds a Master's of Arts in Child Studies from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Her research focused on children's thinking in math, in particular how certain mathematics tools can impact how young students develop their understanding of number. She puts what she has learned into practice as an elementary school teacher.

Vincent La Placa

Associate Professor of Public Health and Policy and Associate Head of School for Student Success, University of Greenwich

Associate Professor of Public Health and Policy and Associate Head of School for Student Success, University of Greenwich Dr Vincent La Placa joined the University of Greenwich in 2010 and specialises in global public health and wellbeing; design and implementation of health-related behaviour change segmentations; and social theory and research methodologies. He previously worked as a Research Consultant for the Department of Health (DH) [now DHSC], where he managed the qualitative strand of the "Healthy Foundations (HF) Life-stage Segmentation Model": one of the largest pieces of qualitative research funded by DH. Dr La Placa, as Associate Professor of Public Health and Policy and Associate Head of School for Student Success, is strategically responsible for maximising student academic outcomes and learning and teaching experiences across the School of Human Sciences (HMS), University of Greenwich; and has previously presented research on international student recruitment to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Prior to this, he was a Research Manager for a leading UK student accommodation provider, where he designed strategic research and insight, to enhance the student experience of accommodation and its impact upon student outcomes. Dr La Placa has presented research at a variety of national and international conferences and is also an Honorary Fellow of the Eurasia Teaching and Research Association (TERA). He co-edited the book, “Wellbeing: Policy and Practice”, with Anneyce Knight and Allan McNaught, published in 2014. He has recently co-edited the book, “Social Science Perspectives on Global Public Health”, with Julia Morgan, published in 2023. He is currently co-editing a new book, called "Comparative Perspectives on Health and Social Care Policy and Practice Across OECD Countries" with Julia Morgan, due to be published by Routledge in 2024.