Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, FCIM) is Visiting Professor of Marketing at Suffolk Business School, University of Suffolk, England, UK, and at Marketing School, Portugal, and Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Graduate School of Business, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. During 2015 - 2017 he was professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at the DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland (the first chair in the world on both domains - BioMarketing and Futures Research). Previously, and for 20 years, he had been appointed as the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982. He has been a full professor for 31 years and held posts in UK and USA; he has held visiting professorship positions at 27 universities, 17 of them in EU countries. In 2017 Luiz Moutinho received a degree of Professor Honoris Causa from the University of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. He was the director of the doctoral programs at Confederation of Scottish Business Schools (1987 – 1989), Cardiff Business School (1993 – 1996) and University of Glasgow (Doc. Program in Management, 1996 – 2004). Professor Moutinho is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Modeling in Management (JM2) and co-editor-in-chief of the Innovative Marketing Journal. He has 5 associate editorships as well as being in editorial boards of 50 int’l academic journals. His areas of research interest encompass futures research and marketing and management futurecast, biometrics and neuroscience in marketing, artificial intelligence, algorithmic self, wearable devices detecting human emotions, evolutionary algorithms, human-computer interaction, artificial neural networks in marketing and modeling consumer behaviour. He has developed a number of conceptual models in areas such as tourism destination decision processes, automated banking, supermarket patronage, etc. The testing of these research models has been based on the application of different statistical, computer and mathematical modeling techniques. Professor Moutinho has over 155 articles published in refereed academic journals, 34 books; Google Scholar - 14,050 academic citations, the h-index of 55 and the i10-index of 196 (Jan. 2020).

Prof Ramesh Gupta is former Pro vice chancellor of Nagaland Central university and Vice Chancellor Radha Govind University, Jharkhand India, had obtained PhD as the age of 23 years He received his Bachelor of Science in Biochemical Science, and Master of Science in organic chemistry, and Doctorate in Chemistry at Lucknow University India, on Drug Development. Dr. Ramesh Gupta is a Medicinal & Bioorganic Chemist and has worked for several years as visiting professor/Scientist in various Medical schools; Louis pasture University France, University of Arizona USA, Osaka University & Nagoya University Japan, Kyung Hee University, Korea advance institute of science and technology (KAIST) Korea, Ben-Gurion University Israel, Linkoping University Sweden, University of Mons Belgium, University of Western Australia, Sydney ,University of Bergen ,Norway and some others. Prof Guptas’ research focuses on the Natural & Synthetic Drug Development, role of sulfur amino acids in health care, functional food, nutraceuticals and environmental Biotechnology & gender issues.