Prof. Muhammad Irfan is currently working as an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, United Kingdom. He is also an adjunct Faculty Member at Lebanese American University, and a visiting Professor at ILMA University. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Technologies and Environment, Journal of Comprehensive Business Administration Research, and Editor of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Prof. Irfan is the leading guest editor of top-notch International Journals, including Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Sustainability, Frontiers in Environmental Science among others. His research achievements have been published in the form of over 200 research papers in top international Journals. According to Elsevier and Stanford University, he has consistently been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2022 and 2023 and is awarded top 1% highly cited researcher across WOS researcher database in 2023. He is among the top 5% of economists in the world, according to the IDEAS/RePEc database. He is the highly cited Researcher of 2023 by Elsevier and Shanghai Ranking database. He was given the Best Scholar Award by the University of the Punjab, the Best Paper Award by North China Electric Power University, and the Outstanding Scholarship Award by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). Many of his highly cited papers fall under (top 1%) and (top 0.1%) categories. He has over 12,000 scholarly citations, and h-index is 64. Prof. Muhammad Irfan is currently working as an Associate Professor at Middlesex University, United Kingdom. He is also an adjunct Faculty Member at Lebanese American University, and a visiting Professor at ILMA University. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief of the Energy Technologies and Environment, Journal of Comprehensive Business Administration Research, and Editor of The Journal of Strategic Information Systems. Prof. Irfan is the leading guest editor of top-notch International Journals, including Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Sustainability, Frontiers in Environmental Science among others. His research achievements have been published in the form of over 200 research papers in top international Journals. According to Elsevier and Stanford University, he has consistently been ranked among the top 2% of scientists worldwide in 2022 and 2023 and is awarded top 1% highly cited researcher across WOS researcher database in 2023. He is among the top 5% of economists in the world, according to the IDEAS/RePEc database. He is the highly cited Researcher of 2023 by Elsevier and Shanghai Ranking database. He was given the Best Scholar Award by the University of the Punjab, the Best Paper Award by North China Electric Power University, and the Outstanding Scholarship Award by the China Scholarship Council (CSC). Many of his highly cited papers fall under (top 1%) and (top 0.1%) categories. He has over 12,000 scholarly citations, and h-index is 64.

Zabihollah (Zabi) Rezaee is currently the Thompson-Hill Chair of Excellence, tenured Professor of Accounting, and School of Accountancy at the University of Memphis. He served a two-year term (2004-2006) on the Standing Advisory Group (SAG) of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) and he is currently (2019-2024) the editor of the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research, one of the 17 journals of the American Accounting Association (AAA). He is currently appointed as the Honorary Advisor of the Financial Reporting Council in Hong Kong (December 2019-September 2024). He received his BS degree from the Iranian Institute of Advanced Accounting, his MBA from Tarleton State University in Texas, and his PhD from the University of Mississippi. Dr. Rezaee’s areas of teaching are: Accounting Systems Applications, Business Sustainability, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Financial Statement Analysis, Forensic Accounting, Internal/External Auditing, International and Managerial Accounting, Organizational Ethics, and seminars at undergraduate, graduate, Executive and International MBA, and PhD levels. Dr. Rezaee has published over 260 articles in well-recognized academic and practitioner journals. He has presented over 270 research papers at universities and regional, national and international meetings keynote speaking. He holds the CPA, CMA, CIA, CFE, CGFM, CSOXP, CGOVP, CGRCP, CGMA and CRMA certifications and possesses practical experience in auditing, expert witnessing, international governance and financial/managerial accounting. Key Publications include 14 books on Financial Statement Fraud, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Governance, Internal Auditing, Business Sustainability, Organizational Ethics, Audit Committees, and Forensic Accounting. Many of the more important books have been translated into multiple languages (Spanish, Chinese, Persian, and Korean).

Prof. Dr. Ikrame SELKANI was born in Morocco. She holds two PhDs: the first in “Heritage” from the University of Cordoba Spain and a second in “Sustainable Management” from the University of Santiago de Compostela Spain. Holder of Master’s Degree in “Entrepreneurship” and a Bachelor in “Management” from the University Mohammed V Rabat Morocco. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor at Cesine: International Business School Santander and at UIBS Barcelona – Spain. Author of the book: The role of marketing in the success of entrepreneurial ventures (2015). “written in French”. Her main research focuses on topics related to Management, Marketing, City Marketing, Culture, Heritage, Tourism, Sustainability, Environment, Innovation … Speaker of various international conferences in Morocco, Tunisia, France, Spain, Denmark, Austria, Sweden, UK, USA, … She Published more than 20 Research Papers in English, French and Spanish about her research topics in different international journals. She belongs to Technology of Cultural assets Research Group – University of Cordoba – Spain.

Dr. Yuchao Hua (H index: 18; Google Scholar) is a researcher on thermal management and heat transfer optimization. He received the doctoral degree in Engineering Thermophysics from Tsinghua University, China in 2018. Then, he was selected as NExT Junior Talent laureate and joined the Laboratoire de Thermique et Energie de Nantes, Nantes University, from Sept 2021. He has published 44 peer-reviewed journal papers, 2 book chapters.

Prof. Lingai Luo (H index: 47; Google Scholar) is Exceptional Class Research Director (ECRD) of French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Laboratoire de Thermique et Energie de Nantes (LTEN-CNRS UMR6607), France. She was Direction member of LTEN and the director of LOCIE, both Laboratories of CNRS. She was the cofounder and coordinator of Sino-French Collaboratory for Environmental and Process Engineering and the director of its successor Sino-French Laboratory for Sustainable Energy of French CNRS and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her research covers a wide range of topics in thermal, process and energy engineering, successively: combustion in fluidized bed; energy balance analysis of industries; solar refrigeration machines; adsorption and absorption processes; thermoelectric heat pumps; energy for buildings, solar energy, energy storage, innovative fluidic, thermal and reactive components and their multi-functionality, energy system integration and optimization etc. More recently, her research activities focus on a fundamental strategy based on thermodynamic analysis, transfers intensification and energy efficiency optimization by multi-scale approach and the utilization of machine learning techniques. Till January 2024, she has been the author of 2 books and over 140 journal articles. She is serving as subject editor of Energy Journal, and associate editor of three others Journals.