Flex, US/Singapore

Paul is the President of Manufacturing and Services, and former Chief Human Resource Officer at Flex Ltd.—the third largest global electronics manufacturing services company by revenue, with approximately 175,000 employees across 30+ countries. In addition to his corporate career, Paul conducts academic research in the areas of sustainable human resource management, migration and SDGs.

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University of Oxford, UK

Alexander Betts is Professor of Forced Migration and International Affairs, William Golding Senior Fellow in Politics at Brasenose College at the University of Oxford. Between 2014 and 2017, he served as Director of the Refugee Studies Centre. His research focuses on the political economy of refugee protection and refugees' access to socio-economic rights and opportunities. He has undertaken research across Africa and Europe.

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Copenhagen Business School, Denmark

Mary Yoko is Honorary Professor of International Business at the Copenhagen Business School. She is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business, having served as Deputy Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies for two consecutive elected terms (2011-2016). She is internationally recognized as an expert in cross-cultural management, ethnomethodology and qualitative studies of complex cultural organizational phenomena.

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University of Reading, UK

Chris is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He had substantial experience as a practitioner and gained his doctorate from the London School of Economics before becoming an academic. He researches in the field of international and comparative Human Resource Management, and has published more than twenty-five books and well over two hundred articles. He has taught in many countries around the world.

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Pepperdine University, US

Cristina is Dean's Distinguished Professor of Management at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School. Her expertise is at the nexus of organizational science, international management, and cross-cultural psychology. For three consecutive years, she has been awarded the Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Distinction, indicating that she is among the top 1% in the world in terms of impact in the fields of Economic and Business disciplines based on citation counts.

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LRQA, Hong Kong SAR

Kevin is Chief Growth Officer at LRQA—business assurance services company operating in more than 150 countries with a team of more than 5,000 employees and expertise in compliance, supply chain, cybersecurity and ESG. Kevin is an executive decision maker; he has authored numerous sustainability reports and supported development and implementation of risk mitigation strategies for many multinational companies.

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Harvard Business School, US

William (Bill) is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the Unit Head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and the Faculty Chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship and Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award.

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University of Manchester, UK

Philip is the Chair of Urban and Regional Economics at Alliance Manchester Business School. He specialises in spatial economics and economic geography and is one of the UK’s most highly cited social scientists. He has also been a Special Adviser to two European Commissioners, an advisor to the European Commission, the OECD, the European Investment Bank, as well as government ministries and research institutes in several countries.

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The World Bank Group

Dilip Ratha is a Lead Economist and Economic Adviser to the Vice President of Operations at the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) in the World Bank. He is also the Founder of KNOMAD (The Global Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development). According to the New York Times, “No one has done more than Mr. Ratha to make migration and its potential rewards a top-of-the-agenda concern in the world’s development ministries.”

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Institute for Human Rights and Business, UK

Neill is Head of Migrant Workers Programme at think and do tank Institute for Human Rights and Business (IHRB). He has undertaken a number of initiatives with the apparel, construction and hospitality sectors and the international employment industry to promote responsible recruitment. Neill also helped oversee the development of the Dhaka Principles for Migration with Dignity, a key framework for responsible business practice relating to migrant workers.

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