SPEAKERS & MODERATORS

Pratima (Tima) Bansal is a Professor and Canada Research Chair of Business Sustainability at the Ivey Business School, Western University (London, Canada). She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Academy of Management, and holds honorary doctorates from the University of Hamburg and HEC (Montreal). Her research is primarily in business sustainability, exploring the role of time, space and scale in business strategy and international business. Tima was the inaugural Deputy Editor (2016-2019) and an Associate Editor (2010-2013) of the Academy of Management Journal, handling qualitative research. During this time, she handled over 400 manuscripts.  

Eileen Fischer is a Professor of Marketing, and the Tanenbaum Chair of Entrepreneurship and Family Enterprise, in the Schulich School of Business at York University, Canada. She is an incoming member of the Editorial Team of JIBS, where she will serve on the Research Advisory Committee.  She is also currently an Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research. From 2014-2017, she served as a Co-Editor of the Journal of Consumer Research. Eileen has wide-ranging research interests that span the fields of marketing, entrepreneurship and international business.  

Catherine Welch is Chair of Strategic Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Finland. She has a track record of launching new disciplinary conversations and advocating methodological and theoretical pluralism. She was the first author on a paper which won the 2021 Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Decade Award. Catherine’s research has concentrated on qualitative research methodology and process approaches to studying firm internationalization. Catherine is the current Book Review Editor of JIBS and a member of the journal’s Research Methods Advisory Committee.  

Rebecca Piekkari is Marcus Wallenberg Chair of International Business at Aalto University School of Business. She is an incoming Associate Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and sits on several editorial boards of IB and management journals. Rebecca’s recent research interests focus on translation as a perspective on IB phenomena, the shifting meaning of location for cross-border activities, as well as questions of social sustainability, diversity and inclusion in multinational corporations. She is particularly known for her expertise in qualitative research methods and language-sensitive research in IB.