Dr. Samuel O. Idowu is a senior lecturer at London Metropolitan University(UK). As the President of the Global Corporate Governance Institute (GCGI) he is connected with a research network of scholars based in more than 40 countries around the world. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Corporate Social Responsibility and has acted as the Editor-in-Chief of three major global reference books, the Encyclopaedia of Corporate Social Responsibility, the Dictionary of Corporate Social Responsibility and the Encyclopaedia of Sustainable Management. He is a Freeman of the City of London and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, and has won a number of awards globally in the field of CSR and has continued to work in the fields of CSR, Sustainability, Ethics and Governance.
Dr. Uzoechi Nwagbara is a Visiting Senior Fellow (Associate Professor) at Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales (LSC affiliation), United Kingdom, and Director of Studies and Doctoral Supervisor at University of the West of Scotland, University of Worcester and University of Wales Trinity Saint David. He is also Associate Lecturer at University of Sunderland in London and holds Visiting Professorship at Coal City University, Enugu, Nigeria and the ICT University, Yaounde, Cameroon. His research interests are eclectic and multidisciplinary, including corporate social responsibility & reporting, sustainability, human resource management, corporate governance, labor relations, critical discourse analysis, and postcolonial African studies.
Dr. Yahaya Alhassan is Principal Lecturer in Finance and Strategic Management at the University of Sunderland in London, United Kingdom, where he is also head of academic operations responsible for quality assurance and new programme development. Dr. Alhassan is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) in the United Kingdom. He has over 20 years' teaching and management experience, developed in his roles in the higher education sector and the consultancy industry. His research interests are around development finance, microfinance, entrepreneurial finance, ethnic minority entrepreneurship and microbusiness development with a special focus on diaspora bonds and financial technology.
