Editor(s)-in-Chief Biography

Bryan Christiansen is the Chief Executive Officer of Global Research Society, LLC in Michigan, USA. A former business lecturer at universities in Russia, Turkey, and the USA, he has traveled to 41 countries where he has conducted international business since 1985 in multiple languages and various industries with Global 500 firms and smaller. Christiansen received his Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing at the University of the State of New York in 1996 and his MBA degree at Capella University in 2003. The author of 22 Scopus-indexed Reference books on business, cultural studies, economics, and psychology, he is fluent in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, and Turkish. Christiansen is currently working with a Russian theoretical mathematician on a new economic model for developing nations.GZhi Wang: PhD (SCU, Au), DBA Cert (SCU, Au), MAppSci (Lincoln, NZ), BA, PGDip (Messy, NZ), Mathematics/Advanced Stat (Wolfram, US/UK), PCAP (MMU, UK), PCAC (CSU, Au). Research: Innovation, Global Leadership, Knowledge Transfer, Culture Issues, Business Strategy, Game Theory, Real-Options, Air Transportation Operations; Published 13 research papers on peer-reviewed (SCI ranking) journals; 12 proceedings at the AoM, AIB, SMS Annual Meetings; 15 at Refereed International Conferences; Received Best Paper Award at the British Academy of Management Conference 2006. Editorial Board, and Editor of a Special Issue on China’s Evolutionary States, Forum for Social Economics, A Journal of the Association for Social Economics; Advisory/Editorial Board for Theoretical/Applied Mathematics in International Business, IGI; Senior Lecturer, Regent University London; Executive MBA Program Leader, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) London; prior: Program Leader for MSc IBM, Director of PhD Studies, MMU, UK; Lecturer at several Australian Universities; Visiting Professor at several Chinese Institutions.