Dr Ksenia Kirillova
Ksenia Kirillova is associate professor of tourism & hospitality marketing and vice-head for research at Institut Lyfe (ex-Institut Paul Bocuse) in France. She received the PhD degree from Purdue University (USA) and was previously based at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Ksenia is the author of 50 publications in leading tourism and hospitality academic journals in the domains of consumer experiences and destination marketing, with the special focus on transformative changes. Ksenia serves as a co-editor in chief at Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights and as an associate editor at Annals of Tourism Research.
Prior to the academic career, Ksenia spent nine years working in high-end restaurant sector as well as in a destination marketing organization in the US. In her free time, Ksenia ponders the questions of life, death, human (dis)connectedness, freedom, and the meaning of it all.
Dr Jean-Michel Sahut
Jean Michel SAHUT (PhD and HdR in Management Sciences) is a professor at IDRAC Business School, France. He teaches entrepreneurial finance, corporate finance, financial markets, Fintech, research methodology and business games. Previously, he was professor at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland (Ch), professor and director of the RESFIN laboratory at the Institut Mines-Telecom.
He has been the principal organiser of 31 international conferences. He has published over 150 scientific articles on finance, fintech, cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, innovation and sustainable tourism in international peer-reviewed journals, as well as five books. He is also editor-in-chief of the journal Management & Prospective: Gestion 2000 (Scopus, Fnege rank 3).
Jean Michel Sahut's work has had more than 200 000 reads.
Prof. Michel Desbordes
Michel Desbordes is Professor of Sports Marketing at the University of Lausanne. He is also a consultant to a number of sports organisations and international events. An alumnus of ENS-Cachan, he holds a doctorate in management science and was a professor at Paris Saclay between 2007 and 2024.
The author of 34 books and numerous articles, he was editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship and, since 2023, has also been guest editor-in-chief of Sustainability magazine.
Pr Dimitrios Buhalis
Dimitrios Buhalis is a Strategic Management and Marketing expert with specialisation in Information Communication Technology applications in the Tourism, Travel, Hospitality and Leisure industries.
He is the Director of the eTourism Lab and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Tourism and Hospitality Research, at Bournemouth University Business School in England. He is the Editor in Chief of the most established SSCI Journal in Tourism: Tourism Review, now in its 78th volume. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing https://eep.manuscriptmanager.net/. Professor Buhalis is a world expert in Strategy, Marketing, Technology, Tourism and Hospitality. His research is referenced widely, and Professor Dimitrios Buhalis was recognised as a Highly Cited Researcher 2020, 2021 and 2022 by Clarivate™. He is the 2nd most cited for tourism, 1st most cited for hospitality, 10th on strategy, and 23rd in Marketing on Google Scholar with more than 76000 citations and h-index 117.
Dr John Fry
John Fry is Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics having previously worked at a number of different business schools and mathematics departments in the UK. John has a PhD in Mathematical Finance (Econophysics) from the University of Sheffield, an MSc in Statistics from the University of Sheffield and a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. John has research interests spanning econophysics, mathematical finance, operations research, statistics and sports modelling.
Some of John's past work modelling Bitcoin markets has been very highly cited. John jointly won the Tom Fetherstone prize in 2019 for the best paper published in International Review of Financial Analysis in 2016.