Andrew Crane is Professor of Business and Society and Director of the Centre for Business, Organisations and Society in the School of Management at the University of Bath, UK. He is a leading author, researcher, educator and commentator on corporate responsibility, the political role of firms, and the business of modern slavery. His books include an award-winning textbook on Business Ethics, the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility, and Social Partnerships and Responsible Business. He is a member of the Forced Labour Forum in the Home Office and is a frequent contributor to the media, including the Financial Times, New York Times, Globe and Mail, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and Vogue Business. For more details go to http://andrewcrane.org.

Prof. Simon S.M. HO is President of The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong since

2014. He is a certified public accountant in the UK, Australia and Canada. Previously, he was Vice Rector (Academic Affairs) of the University of Macau, Dean of the School of Business of the Hong Kong Baptist University, and Director of the School of Accountancy of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Currently he is Chairman of the Citizen Advisory Committee on Community Relations and Member of the Advisory Committee on Corruption, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) of Hong Kong.

In recognition of his contribution to business ethics and stakeholder-based corporate governance, he was the first Chinese awarded the Faculty Pioneer Award (described as Oscar of the business school world by the Financial Times) by the Aspen Institute, USA. He was elected as one of the 100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics by Ethisphere, one of the world's most recognized bodies in business ethics and anticorruption.

In 2021, he was conferred the Outstanding Achievement Award by The Professional Validation Council of Hong Kong Industries. In 2024, he was granted the Global Outstanding Chinese Award by the Global Outstanding Chinese Association.

Prof. José C. Alves is the Dean and Professor at the Faculty of Business, City University of Macau, since 2018. He holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an M.Sc. in Management from the Catholic University of Portugal & Inter-University Institute of Macau.

He has authored several books and numerous journal articles, focusing on entrepreneurship, international business, and innovation ecosystems.

He has delivered keynote talks on topics such as China-Brazil relations and cross-border entrepreneurship and has supervised many MBA and DBA dissertations.

His professional service includes roles as a reviewer for academic journals and membership in various academic organizations. He has also been involved in several commissioned and sponsored research projects. Dr. Alves has industry experience as an assistant engineer, surveyor, loss adjuster, and civil engineer in Portugal.

Shoujin Zhou, Prof. and Dr., is the Office and Research Director of Rothlin International Management Consulting in Beijing, China.

 He obtained his master's degree in Chinese linguistics (Philology) in 1993 from Nanjing University, China, and obtained his Ph.D. in Chinese linguistics (Philology) in 2001 from Peking University, China. 

He has taught Chinese language and culture (classical and modern), translation and teacher training courses at Peking University, Jiangsu Ocean University, as well as Oxford University, University of London (SOAS), Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Chulalongkorn University (Thailand), University of Granada (Spain) for nearly 40 years. He has published three books and over thirty articles in areas of philology and classical Chinese philosophy, translation and applied linguistics. He was also the first Chinese Director of the Confucius’ Institute at London, UK.

Dr. Juelin Yin is a professor of management at the School of Business at Sun Yat-sen University, China. Before she joined Sun Yat-sen University, she worked as an assistant professor in the University of International Business and Economics and an associate professor in Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, cross-sector social partnership, and social entrepreneurship and social innovation. She holds a PhD from Nankai University, did her postdoctoral research in Harvard Business School, was a visiting research fellow in the Ivey Business School of Western University, an honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, UK and a visiting professor of management at the University of Bath, UK. She is also a fellow of Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the UK. Dr Yin has published over 40 articles in journals such as Journal of World Business and Journal of Business Ethics. She currently serves as an associate editor of the Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility and is an editorial member of Business and Society, Management and Organization Review and Quarterly Journal of Management. She has published four teaching cases on CSR in China in the Harvard Business Publishing database and won several case writing awards.

Prof. Ran Zhang, Director of the Department of Public Administration at the School of Public Management, East China Normal University (ECNU), excells in the research areas encompassing organizational behavior and human resource management, behavioral public administration, and social governance & ESG. He also serves as the director of the ECNU Research Center for Nonprofit and Social Governance Innovation, the executive editor of the Behavioral Public Management and Policy Journal,and concurrently holds social positions such as the Chair for the Community Governance and ESG Committee within the Commerce Economy Association of China.Over the past decade, Prof.Zhang has published nearly 40 papers in CSSCI and SSCI journals, authored seven monographs, and led almost 10 provincial-level or above research projects funded by the National Social Science Fund and the Ministry of Education's Humanities and Social Sciences Fund.

Dr. Serge Stinckwich is a computer scientist and the Head of Research at the United Nations University Institute in Macao, a UN research think tank using a human-centred lens to look at how we can amplify the positive contributions of digital technologies for sustainable development and mitigate their risks. Before joining UNU, Serge was an Associate Professor at the University of Caen Normandie in France and a researcher in the UMMISCO international joint research unit between the French Research Institute on Sustainable Development (IRD), Sorbonne University and 5 universities located in Cameroon, Morocco, Senegal and Vietnam. He has more than 16 years of experiences working on sustainable development and digital technologies in South-East Asia, Central Africa and China.  His main research interests are in Modelling of Complex Systems, Social Simulation, and the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). He has applied his work to Epidemiology, Environmental Monitoring and Disaster Management. He organised and co-organized more than 50 workshops and conferences on topics such as Software Engineering, Modelling and Simulation, Rescue Robotics, Disaster Management, and Complex Systems, and supervised more than 20 PhD/Masters students from various countries (Chile, Vietnam, Cameroon, Senegal, etc.).

Ms. Ruby O is Assistant Vice President of Sustainability and Business Synergy at MGM, who integrates sustainability purpose into practices and facilitates sustainability strategy development that is balanced with ESG challenges and opportunities. Throughout her 15 years journey with multinational food sectors and integrated resorts, Ruby has successful track records in championing projects on collective values proposition and transformative initiations tailored to regional contexts with outstanding best industrial practices and award recognitions. Ruby is an MBA graduate and a food science degree holder from a prestigious university. She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health UK, an industrial leading professional who participates in United Nations conferences, and as an adjunct professor in higher education, a regular speaker at international and regional seminars on sustainability topics.

Dr. Stephan Rothlin SJ is Director of the Macau Ricci Institute (www.riccimac.org) and Research Professor of the Faculty of Business and Law of the University of St. Joseph, Macao. He serves also as founder and CEO of Rothlin Consulting Limited, located in Beijing and in Hong Kong (www.rothlin.org).  His teaching and research interests are focused on international business ethics and responsible entrepreneurship with a focus on China. He provides educational consulting services to encourage the practice of corporate social responsibility, and advocates amongst business communities and society at large the values of honesty, integrity, respect, transparency and responsibility as indispensable elements for excellence in business. 

Ms. Mary Suen is passionate about helping individuals, organizations, and communities to learn and grow. With her experiences, she is highly capable of influencing and inspiring creative efforts.

Before she advocates the Chief Happiness Officer Movement in Hong Kong, Mary was the Senior Director of Corporate Culture & Talent Development at Stan Group (Holdings) Limited. She believes that Employee Happiness is one of the important business strategies and happiness in the workplace has become a valid concern for both employees and management alike. As a leader, how to create a happy and psychological wellness working environment in every organization and advocate the corporate happiness culture is a very trendy topic.

Dr. William Yu is the Chief Executive Officer of World Green Organisation. He is an energy economist by training and completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge.

He earned an Executive MBA from the Thunderbird Global Management School, U.S...

Dr. Yu is the scholarship recipient of the Executive Education in non-profit strategic management at the Harvard Business School. He serves as member in Advisory Council on the Environment (ACE), Environment and Ecology Bureau and Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development, HKSAR Government.

Ms. Hellen Lok is currently the Director of Human Resources and Sustainability Department as well as the Ethics Officer of Companhia de Electricidade de Macau – CEM, S.A., which is a forerunner in business ethics among all local companies and has an appointed Ethics Officer to take care of related matters for over 15 years.

Hellen completed her bachelor degree in Canada with major in Human Resources Management and further pursued her master degree with major in Professional Accounting from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Right now, she is also the Secretary of the Fiscal Committee of the Macau Human Resources Management Association (AGRHM) which allows HR practitioners to connect and share their experiences and challenges. 

Mr. António Tam Chi Neng is a legal expert in financial law, currently an Advisor to Macau's Secretary for Economy and Finance. Previously, he was a Senior Associate at MdME Lawyers and is licensed to practice in Macau SAR and Portugal. His past roles include Legal Advisor at the Monetary Authority of Macau and Company Secretary for the Macau Central Securities Depository and Clearing Limited. António is pursuing a Ph.D. at University of Macau, with a research focus on Trust, Investment Fund, Securities, and Insurance Law.

Mr. Paul W.B. Chan is the Chief Amazement Officer at Hanin Garment/Hanin Enterprises and a co-founder of CFORCE Biotech and Infinity Innovation Limited.

With over 25 years of expertise and an academic foundation in Economics and Finance (University of Rochester, Cushing Academy), he pivoted from finance to pioneer ethical manufacturing. At Hanin, he champions lean operations and on-demand production, aligning with UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 12 for responsible consumption.

Co-founding CFORCE Biotech, he bridges health and textiles, creating pathogen-resistant fabrics to advance global well-being (SDG 3). Through Infinity Innovation, he integrates AI to optimize supply chains and foster smart fashion innovation (SDG 9). A sustainability advocate, Paul founded ESG School HK to educate businesses on environmental governance and launched ESGUniform.com, redefining eco-conscious workwear that supports fair labor (SDG 8) and combats climate change (SDG 13).

Renowned for merging textile innovation, AI-driven solutions, and circular economy principles, Paul’s leadership underscores the synergy between profitability and planetary stewardship. His initiatives—from biodegradable materials to carbon-neutral manufacturing—demonstrate how industry can drive equitable progress. A sought-after speaker and mentor, he inspires organizations to embrace sustainability as a core strategy, proving that cutting-edge technology and ethical practices can coexist to shape a resilient future.