Advisory Board

Our Advisory Board

Meet Our Highly Skilled Mentors

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CEO - Meraj Naem, PhD

As and experienced higher education and business management professional, with more than 20 years of professional experience, Meraj holds the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Strategic Management and possess sound experience in Business consulting, Higher Education Planning and Quality Assurance along with comprehensive university level academic deliverables.

Dr. Meraj is well versed in delivering workshops and trainings in corporate and higher education domains on a wide range of topics however his well acclaimed areas such as Leadership Excellence, Business Process Reengineering, Strategic Planning, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Sustainable Development and Other Strategic Dimensions of an Organization.

Dr. Meraj is a certified CSR Practitioner from CSE (Center for Sustainability and Excellence), and is trained and certified by the GRI (Global Reporting Initiative) for Sustainability Reporting. The approach of blending the Professional and Philanthropic aspects, makes the training programs of Dr. Meraj not only unique but also nurture the candidates Ethics and Values.

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Rock-Antoine Mehanna, Ph.D.

Professor Mehanna brings over 30 years of experience in academia, management, and consultancy. He has held leadership roles across various sectors, including education, government, retail, real estate, and hospitality. Currently, he serves as CEO of the Academy of Business Management Conferences (UAE), a corporate Board Director and Strategic Advisor, Chapter President of the World Economics Association (U.K.), and Head of the Dubai Chapter of the Academy for Global Business Advancement (USA).

Most recently, he was the Dean of the Business School, Head of the Entrepreneurship Hub, and a Full Professor of Innovation & Strategy at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University (Dubai, UAE). He has also held prominent academic leadership positions, such as Dean of the School of Business and Founder of the BLF Smart Center at Sagesse University, as well as Director of Graduate Programs at Notre Dame University. His extensive consultancy and advisory work span the U.S., France, U.K., Lebanon, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and other regions.

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Lori Breslow, PhD

Lori Breslow is an internationally recognized expert in teaching and learning in higher education, specializing in pedagogical, curricular, and digital innovations. She founded the Teaching & Learning Laboratory (TLL) at MIT in 1997 and directed it until 2015, overseeing over 80 studies on educational advancement. Her work, including early research on MOOCs, has been presented to prestigious bodies like the US President’s Council of Advisors in Science and Technology and featured in major publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Chronicle of Higher Education.

Her research explores student online behaviors, active learning, and employer perceptions of MIT Sloan’s MicroMasters in Finance. She has been funded by the NSF, Spencer Foundation, and others, with her work appearing in Educational Researcher, Computers & Education, and leading journals.

Breslow has contributed globally to teaching improvements, co-directing the MIT-Cambridge Teaching for Learning Network and consulting on projects like Masdar University in Abu Dhabi and Singapore University of Technology and Design. She developed the strategic teaching model, used in a national initiative in South Africa. A Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan, she also teaches in TLL’s teaching certificate program, which has trained over 2,500 MIT Ph.D. students and postdocs.

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Marija Ristic, PhD

Dr. Marija Ristic received her MS and Ph.D. from the University of Novi Sad, Serbia, and SHRM-SCP from the Society of Human Resource Management USA.

Her main research interests are management, HRM, leadership, and organizational behavior. She is the author of 50+ research articles, monographs, and reviews published in highly-ranked journals of internal repute and indexed conference proceedings. She is an active member of the Serbian society, Society of Human Resource Management, and Human Resources Capital Institute.

Besides teaching, Dr. Marija has worked as an HR consultant and participated in various projects financed by the Ministry of Education, Science & Technological Development- Serbia and the World Bank. Dr. Ristic is currently an Associate Professor of Management and HRM.

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Mahwish Sindhu, PhD

Mahwish Sindhu is a highly accomplished professional with expertise in management and marketing. She holds MBA, MS, and Ph.D. Degree from University Kuala Lumpur (UniKL), Malaysia.

She is an active member of world high-ranked societies, including the Digital Marketing Institute (DMI), American Marketing Association (AMA), and Academy of Business Management Conferences (ABMC).

Currently serves as Associate Professor of Marketing, Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Research in Administrative Sciences, Conference Chair for the Global Conference on Business Management and Social Sciences (GCBMS), and advisory board member for Himalayan Group and Talent Nurtures Educational Institute (TNEI).
Her research interests include data-driven insights related to business management activities and their impact on sustainable competitive business growth. With her knowledge and experience, she has built a strong rapport in corporate and academic sectors alike, making her an invaluable resource for all related matters in the field.

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Gilles Chemla, PhD

Gilles is a Professor of Finance at Imperial College Business School and Co-director of Imperial's Centre for Financial Technology.

He is also a research fellow at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, a research fellow at Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a senior research fellow at the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA), and a member of the American Finance Association, American Economic Association, Western Finance Association, and European Finance Association. He currently serves as an Associate Editor at the Journal of Empirical Finance.

Gilles holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics, an MSc in economics from the Paris School of Economics, and he is a graduate engineer from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. Prior to joining Imperial, Gilles was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. He has also worked in corporate finance at BNP Paribas, as an independent consultant for a variety of corporate, financial, and governmental institutions and professional and international organisations, and he has served in a wide range of boards.