Business Analytics and Operations Research

David Billedeau (primary author)—a government affairs and policy expert with considerable experience in both the public and private sectors—has assisted in setting effective political outreach and risk mitigation strategies for organizations often found in the headlines. His professional background is bolstered by international experience in South Africa, where he conducted sustainability research and assurance consulting for publicly traded companies. David has completed advanced academic programs with Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, the University of Waterloo, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Harvard Business School. Currently, David is serving as the Senior Director, Natural Resources, Environment, and Sustainability at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce while pursuing a PhD within the University of Waterloo’s School of Environment, Enterprise and Development. David also holds a research fellowship from the Energy Council of Canada and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy

Sustainable Energy, business

Prof. Dr. Md. Mamun Habib is a Professor at School of Business & Entrepreneurship (SBE), Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB). • Dr. Habib is the Visiting Scientist at the Dept. of Industrial Engineering of University of Texas – Arlington, USA. He is also the Adjunct Professor at Unirazak, Malaysia and UCSI, Malaysia. • At present, he is supervising ten (10) Ph.D. scholars locally and internationally and earlier four (4) Ph.D. scholars have been graduated. • As a Ph.D examiner, he has several Ph.D. involvements with UUM, UNIRAZAK, AIMST, UNITAR, Asia e University (AeU), Malaysia; Assumption University of Thailand; Institute for Technology and Management (ITM) – University and Birla Institute of Technology (BIT)–Deemed University, India, National Institute of Technology (NIT), India, SOA University, India; University of the Assumption, Philippines, Aligarh Muslim University. • He has about 20 years’ experience in the field of teaching, training, workshop, consultancy and research. • Dr. Habib published about 175+ research papers, including Conference Proceedings, Journal articles, and book chapters/books. Among them, more than 50 articles are WoS and Scopus Indexed. • He is the Editor-in-Chief in International Journal of Supply Chain Management (IJSCM), London, UK. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief/Lead Guest Editor/Editor/Editorial Board Member/Reviewer of more than 50 journals, particularly Elsevier (Scopus) and Thomson Reuters (Web of Science) Indexed Journals. • He delivers Keynote Speech at 70+ international conferences at various countries, particularly USA, UK, Taiwan, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, Turkey, Korea, India, Philippines, Greece, Bulgaria, Australia, Italy, Nigeria etc. • He conducted 120+ Webinar/Workshops/ Seminars locally and internationally. • He is involved in a few grant research projects in the USA, Malaysia, Thailand, Bulgaria, and Bangladesh. • Earlier he was Associate Professor at BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Bangladesh; Asia Graduate School of Business (AGSB), UNITAR International University, Malaysia; Dept. of Operations Research/Decision Sciences, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Malaysia and Dept. of Operations Management, American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB). • He accomplished his Ph.D. and M.S. with outstanding performance in Computer & Engineering Management (CEM) under the Graduate School of Business (GSB) from Assumption University, Thailand. His Ph.D. research was in the field of Supply Chain Management. • His core research areas are supply chain management, production & operations management, operations research, research methodology, engineering management, technology management, and educational management. • Prof. Habib is an active member of different professional organizations, including IEEE (Senior Member), IEOM (President, SCM Technical Division), IETI (Senior Member and Board of Director), IRED (Fellow), GRDS (Vice-President), just to name a few. • He also serves as General Chair, Program Chair, Technical Chair, Organizing Committee Member, Technical Committee Member, Track Chair, Session Chair as well as Reviewer of numerous international conferences. • Finally, He is involved with QS World University Ranking/Times Higher Education Ranking as an academician

supply chain management, production & operations management, operations research, research methodology, engineering management, technology management, and educational management.

Pumela Msweli is Executive Dean and CEO at Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership (SBL) City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Her Academic Qualification Bachelor of Science from WITS (Majoring in Genetics and Microbiology) an MBA from the University of Exeter (passed with Distinction), an MPhil in Development Finance from the University of Stellenbosch and a Ph.D. (Exeter University, UK). Academic experience spans over 22 years across the regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, Canada, the UK, and Europe. As Professor of Corporate Governance, she introduced technology-based real-time assessment techniques to improve the throughput of postgraduate students. The scholarly outputs of some of my postgraduate students together with my own published works have been cited by scholars all over the world.

Business Research and Genetics etc