Rim El Khoury

Dr. Rim El Khoury is an Associate Professor of Finance at Lebanese American University, Lebanon, with a Ph.D. in International Finance from Sogang University, South Korea. Prior to joining Lebanese American University, she taught at Hanyang University in South Korea and the American University of Technology, and served as the Finance Discipline Coordinator and Chair of the Assessment of Learning at Notre Dame University in Lebanon. She is the recipient of several awards, such as the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2009), Grand Winner for the Korea Times Magazine Economic Contest (2007), and The Academic Excellence Award from the Korean Government (2006). She is also a reviewer for several prestigious academic journals, including the International Journal of Emerging Markets , Journal of Applied Accounting Research , and Journal of Financial Innovation . She has guest edited special issues for journals such as Strategic Marketing , Higher Education , Skills and Work-Based Learning , and Development and Learning in Organizations . Rim has also edited books and published several peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Journal of International Financial Markets , Institutions and Money , and Small Business Economics .

Dr. Bahaaeddin Alareeni is Chairman of the EuroMid Academy of Business and Technology in Istanbul, ‎Turkey. He has more ‎than 50 publications published in highly ranked journals, books and ‎international conferences ‎‎proceedings‎‏. ‏‎ He is also ‎Editor/Associate Editor for several books and journals ‎published by Emerald, ‎Springer, and Taylor ‎& Francis. Dr. Alareeni is Editor-in-Chief of ‎‏The International Journal of Business Ethics ‎and ‎Governance ‎‎(IJBEG), and Associate Editor ‎of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and ‎Investment (JSFI). He also served as a guest editor for a number of special issues for journals such as ‎ Journal of Sustainable Finance and ‎Investment (JSFI), ‎ Journal of Strategic ‎Marketing (JSM), the International Journal of ‎E-Business Research ‎‎(IJER), and the Journal of Decision Systems (JDS). He has edited ‎several ‎books published ‎by Springer, such as ‎’The Fourth Industrial ‎Revolution: ‎Implementation of ‎Artificial Intelligence for Growing Business Success’; ‎’Technologies and Entrepreneurship in Business ‎Development’; ‎and ‘Applications of Artificial ‎Intelligence in Business, Education and Healthcare’. ‎He has received research ‎grants and awards, worked ‎as a trainer for several fields, ‎and ‎supervised Master students. ‎Dr. Alareeni was also chair of the International Conference of Business and Technology, ‎which was ‎held in ‎Istanbul, Turkey, in November ‎‎2020 and 2021.