At the proposal of our BoD, our General Assembly approved in 2020, the creation of an advisory council which will be composed, among others, of past committed leaders of the federation.
In this way, the General Assembly aims to keep worldwide field and organizational memory as well as, together with the BoD, benefit from the insights and recommendations of the advisory council.
Alain Burlaud (Chair) is an Emeritus Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM), where he was director of the Accountancy Education Institute (Intec) for ten years. He has published numerous articles and books, while at the same time working as a chartered accountant and auditor.
He chaired the French Accounting Association (AFC) from 1997 to 1999 and the jury for the chartered accountancy final exam from 1986 to 1996. As an advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, he was in charge of the implementation of the reform of the bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees in the French universities from 2004 to 2012. In addition, as president in 1997 and 1998 of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) and vice-president of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER), he has developed numerous international projects. He is the director of the “Expertise comptable” text books collection published by Foucher.
Greg J. Bamber is a British-Australian Professor and Director of the International Consortium for Research in Employment and Work, Monash Business School, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He was educated at University of Manchester, London School of Economics and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. He has worked on a wealth of research projects including those funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and commissioned by international agencies (e.g. International Labour Organization), governments and enterprises. He has conducted research in many sectors as well as a range of enterprises in Australia, the UK and internationally.
Greg is the author of several books and his articles have been published in such journals as: British Journal of Industrial Relations (IR); British Journal of Management; Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal; Human Relations; HRM Journal; Industrial & Labor Relations Review; IR Journal; International Journal of HRM; Journal of IR; Journal of Management Studies.
Greg is President of the Australian Labour and Employment Relations Association and has served as President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management, Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM), the IR Society of Victoria (Australia) and the Association of IR Academics of Australia and New Zealand. He is also Co-Chair: International Section, US Labor and Employment Relations Association (LERA). He is a Fellow of ANZAM, LERA, Academy of Social Sciences, UK; Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia; Australian Human Resources Institute; British Academy of Management; Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, UK; Chartered Management Institute, UK. He has served as a Director on several boards in the fields of education, healthcare and sport, as well as on more than 20 editorial boards for international journals. See: http://gregbamber.com/
Kerry Brown is the Professor of Employment and Industry in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. She is Immediate Past President and a longstanding Board Member (since 2016) of the Australia and New Academy of Management (ANZAM) and Program Leader for the Governance and Organisational Planning Program of the Asset Institute.
As an Executive Board Member and Founding Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007; member, Standards Australia Mirror Committee MB019 Asset Management (since 2009) and, member of International Standards Organisation ISO TC251 to develop an International Standard (ISO 55000) for physical assets and asset systems, has significant expertise in Asset Management. Professor Brown specialises in organisational management; collaboration, networks and business clusters; capability, strategy, management and policy for infrastructure asset management; public management and policy, gender and workforce issues and, negotiation.
As an Executive Board Member and Founding Fellow of the International Society for Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM) since 2007; member, Standards Australia Mirror Committee MB019 Asset Management (since 2009) and, member of International Standards Organisation ISO TC251 to develop an International Standard (ISO 55000) for physical assets and asset systems, has significant expertise in Asset Management. Professor Brown specialises in organisational management; collaboration, networks and business clusters; capability, strategy, management and policy for infrastructure asset management; public management and policy, gender and workforce issues and, negotiation.
Santiago García Echevarria has doctorates from the University of Cologne and the Complutense University in Madrid. He has been a lecturer at the Universidad Comercial de Deusto in Bilbao and at the Complutense in Madrid. He held the Chair of Business Economy at the University of Barcelona and this same Chair at the University of Alcalá. He collaborated in the planning and development of the Universidad de Educación a Distancia in Madrid. He was also a member of the Steering Committee which developed the University of Alcalá and was Founding Dean of the Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences at Alcalá.
Dr García Echevarría was Director of the Instituto de Dirección y Organización de Empresa (IDOE) at the University of Alcalá. He was also President of the Asociación Alexander von Humboldt España and he is member of the Consejo Consultivo de Privatizaciones (CCP),and is Professor Emeritus of the University of Alcalá MBA and Honorary Professor. He was Embassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung.
He was a council member of the Centre Européen pour le Management Stratégic des Universités (ESMU) in Brussels and of the Brussels Initiative, and was President and Co-founder of ACEDE (Asociación Cientifica de Economía y Dirección de la Empresa). He was also President and Co-founder of IFSAM (International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management).
In the business sector Dr García Echevarría started with the Banco de Bilbao, moving later to the Unión Española de Explosivos and then becoming Managing Director of Demag Equipos Industriales. He has played an active part in many business transformation processes in Spain.
He has published a large number of books and articles in various languages and has given lectures and seminars within the fields of business and the socio-economic order in a wide variety of different circles.
He has participated in the design and performance of the MBA of Alcala University and the Siemens Management Learning Programme S4 and S5 in collaboration with the Alcalá University. The Programm was nominated as Best Practice.
Luis Ángel Guerras, Professor of Strategic Management at the Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid. Currently his preferred research fields are business diversification and portfolio restructuring, cooperation between firms, and the relationship between corporate social responsibility and strategy. He currently chairs the Research Group on Corporate Strategy and other competitive research projects.
Author of several books, of which the following might be highlighted: La Dirección Estratégica de la Empresa. Teoría y Aplicaciones (Thomson-Civitas, 2022, 6th edition), Casos de Dirección Estratégica de la Empresa (Thomson-Civitas, 2020, 6th edition), and Fundamentals of Strategic Management (Thomson-Reuters Civitas, 2018, 2nd edition).
Author of numerous articles dealing with strategy and organization in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Research Policy, Journal of Business Research, R&D Management, Scientometrics, Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Management Decision, Academy of Management Proceedings, BRQ-Business Research Quarterly, Journal of Technology Management, among the most relevant. He has also contributed as an author of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management with an article on Strategic Management Journal.
He has been the first president of the Strategy Division in ACEDE (Spanish Academy of Management) between 2008 and 2010. Between 2018 and 2020 he has been Vice-President and then President of the Spanish Academy of Management (ACEDE) till 2022. He has been Head of the Department of Business Organization at the Rey Juan Carlos University, Director of the Iberdrola Chair for Research in Business Management and Organization, and coordinator of the Business line of research in the PhD Program in Law and Social Sciences in the Rey Juan Carlos University.
Felicity Kelliher is a Professor of Management Practice at the School of Business, Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland and past-Chair of the Irish Academy of Management (2017-2020). A Fulbright Scholar, Felicity has published widely in the area of management capability development and learning in small firms and has co-authored three books.
Marie McHugh is Professor of Organisational Behaviour at Ulster University where she was previously Dean of the Ulster University Business School (2009-2016). Her main research interests are work stress, organisational health and organisational change, and she has published widely within these areas.
Marie is a British Academy of Management (BAM) Fellow, a Visiting Professor at Hebei Geo University (China), and she has been a Visiting Distinguished Scholar at the University of Nebraska (USA) and the University of Halmstad (Sweden). She has a PhD from Ulster University (1996), an MSc in Occupational Psychology (1985) and a BA in Psychology (1983) from Queen’s University.
In addition to her roles at Ulster University, Marie is a member of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF) Panel for Business and Management Studies. She is a member of the Strategic Advisory Network of the UKRI’s Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Council of the Institute of Directors (IoD), and the IoD NI Committee. She is Editor of the Leadership and Organizational Development Journal and is a Non-Executive Director of Employers for Childcare.
Marie has been a member of the Royal Mail/Communication Workers’ Union Third Party Independent Review Team Chaired by Lord Sawyer to improve employment relations at Royal Mail. She has also served on the Council of the CBI (NI), and she has been a member of the UK Government’s Business Schools’ Taskforce, which focused on the contribution that business schools make to the development of the UK economy.
Marie has previously served as Chair and President of the British Academy of Management (BAM). In recognition of her academic leadership and contribution to business and economic development, Marie received a Special Achievement Award from the CIPD in 2014 and a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Flybe/UTV Business Awards in 2015. She was appointed an OBE in the 2020 New Years Honours for her services to higher education and business development.
Patricia (Trish) Genoe McLaren is Associate Vice President: Academic and an Associate Professor of Business Technology Management in the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. She is the Past-President of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada and the Chair of the Management History Division of the Academy of Management.
Trish’s research is in the areas of management and organizational history and critical management studies, with a focus on the history of management education and business schools and the development of management thought. She conducts archival research and works mainly with critical hermeneutic analysis and critical discourse analysis. She is particularly interested in context, language, and power. Trish has been a driving force behind the development and administration of the Business Technology Management program at Laurier’s Brantford campus, which received formal accreditation in 2017 from the BTM Accreditation Council. She is a founding member of the BTM Governing Council, which accredits BTM programs and certifies BTM graduates and professionals. Trish teaches technology management courses in the program, including systems analysis and design, enterprise architecture, project management, and technology and innovation management.
Professor Michael Morley holds the Chair in Management at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick, Ireland, where he teaches international and cross-cultural management. He also mentors a cohort of doctoral candidates pursuing programmes of research on expatriate management, psychological contracts, global careers and new forms of organising, several of whom are scholarship holders. Previously, he held various leadership roles including Head of the Department of Management & Marketing, Head of the Department of Personnel & Employment Relations, Assistant Dean of Research and Director of the Graduate Centre of Business.
Professor Morley’s research interests encompass international, comparative, and cross-cultural human resource management, which he explores at different levels. He has co-authored and edited several books which have been published by, among others, Routledge, Oxford University Press, Butterworth-Heinemann, and Palgrave Macmillan. His journal articles have appeared in many outlets in international business, human resource management and organizational psychology. He has held a range of editorial roles and editorial board memberships at several journals. He is a long serving member of the Cranet Network, a research consortium founded in 1989 and now involving more than 40 Universities throughout the world engaged in studying human resource management practices in context. He has served as Chair of the Irish Academy of Management and as President of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management. He is a Fellow of the Irish Academy.
Koji Okubayashi is an Emeritus Professor at Kobe University as well as at Osaka International University. He carried out research as a visiting fellow or professor at University of Wisconsin, University of California-Barley, Manchester Business School, Imperial College and Wissenschaftlich Hochschule für Unternehmengsführung. He studied attitudes of Soviet workers based on a sociological approach at the Institute of Economics of the Soviet Science Academy. As far as his experience as leader of scholarly associations is concerned, he was President of the Japan Society of Human Resource Management (JSHRM) and Vice-President of the Japan Academy of Business Administration (JABA). He has also served as a member of the Science Council of Japan for more than 21 years.
As a resource person of the Asian Productivity Organization, he studied practices of human resource management and industrial relations in Asian countries. He also gave lectures concerning the Japanese style of management to employees of overseas subsidiaries of Japanese companies as a part-time lecturer of the Association of Overseas’ Technical Support. As regards to university administration, he created the Department of Global Business Administration at Osaka International University and was its Vice-President. Moreover, he reorganized the Department of Business Administration at Setsunan University. He further served as a co-chair of the Evaluation Committee of the Independent Administrative Institution of both central and local Governments in Japan. He has collaborated with local governments as a chair of several advisory committees in the field of industrial relations problems over 25 years.
Alketa Peci – Current Head of the Professional Master’s in Public Administration (MAP) . Her research interests relate with the study of bureaucracy and its major transformations, focusing on autonomous bureaucracies as Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs) and Audit Offices; on bureaucratic representation; public-private/nonprofit partnerships, and the adoption of better regulation reforms. Currently, she is working on following research projects: drivers of decision-making in autonomous bureaucratic institutions; regulators professional careers paths; bureaucratic reputation and representation effects on policy audiences; media reputation as a strategic resource for public agencies; the role of intangible resources on public-nonprofit performance; bureaucratic careers, networking and collaboration; administrative burdens and policy learning.
Yvon Pesqueux served the full presidential cycle, first as President elect, then as President (2011-2012) and finally as Past President.
He co-chaired the organizing committee for the 2010 IFSAM biannual congress in Paris.
After the untimely death of Treasurer Eric Simon in 2015, he generously took over as Treasurer, a function he fulfilled until March 31, 2021.
He is also a recipient of the IFSAM 30 year anniversary outstanding service award given on Dec 8, 2020.
He served as acting treasurer between April and October 2021. Until his appointment to the AB by the GA on April 6th, 2022, Yvon served as one of the FNEGE representatives to the GA since 2010
André Petit was born in Quebec City, Canada. He attended Laval University where he obtained the degrees of BSc and MSc in Industrial Relations. In July 1970, he joined the University of Sherbrooke and was granted a fellowship to go to Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) where he obtained a PhD in Industrial and Labor Relations. Andre was a member of the Faculty at the University of Sherbrooke from July 1970 to September 2009 when he retired. He was also a Visiting scholar at Laval University, Metz Management School (France) and a frequent invited scholar at Nancy Business School (from 1996 to 2010).
He has published many research articles in such journals as Industrial Relations/Relations industrielles, Academy of Management Review, Human Resource Management, and Gestion. He also was co-author of a few HR textbooks. He was the founding-president (1983-1990) of the Human Resources Professional Association of the Eastern Townships (AGRHE) a local HR association. He was also president of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) (1992-1993) and President of IFSAM (1999-2000). Finally, he organized the joint ASAC-IFSAM World conference held in Montreal in 2000.
Professor Yinshan Tang is a Vice Dean of Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. Dr Tang is a Professor in Management Informatics, who teaches IT Project Management, Applied Informatics, Organisation Design and Performance Management.
He obtained his PhD degree at Imperial College London in 1994. He then had two terms of postdoctoral experiences in Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela and Keele University, UK. In 1998, he joined a business consulting company as a senior management team member for six years before joining the University of Reading helping to establish the Informatics Research Centre in 2004.
His research is multi-disciplinary and covers the fields of management and biology. He has brought the concepts of management ecology, innovation ecology and innovative nation. His current focus is on cross cultural management with special interest in ‘managing greyness’ as management theory and practice.
His recent research focuses on big data and artificial intelligence mechanisms, knowledge gap analysis, digital ecosystem, digitalisation transformation, world peace index and information system immunology.
Yang Zhang is a professor at Hohai University, China. He earned his PhD from Fudan University, China. He served as the Dean of the Business School at Hohai University from August 1995 to December 2014. He has held positions as President (January 2019 – March 2021) and Chairman of the China Committee (since March 2023) of IFSAM. Additionally, he is the Global Head of the Water Special Interests Group of the International Project Management Association (IPMA) since April 2023. His research interests include corporate strategy, water management culture, the “World Water Valley” strategic collaborative model, creative innovation and entrepreneurship, the “Overseas China” transnational business model, and international river cooperation development.
Xavier Castañer is PhD in Business Administration by the University of Minnesota, since 2014 Xavier is a full professor of Strategy at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland). He was previously on the faculty of ESADE and HEC Paris. He has also taught at the HEC Geneva, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, London Business School, Technion and the Universita Catolica del Sacro Cuore. where he developed and taught several courses on strategy at all levels, including the Grande Ecole, the MBA, the PhD and Executive Education programs. He has been a visiting faculty at SCANCOR, Boston College, Tel Aviv University and VU Amsterdam.
He teaches and does research on corporate governance, strategy and development, as well as innovation and organizational design. He has published in top management journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Corporate Governance International Review, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, International Journal of Innovation Management and Strategic Management Journal.
He is very active in the scientific community, having had leadership roles at AOM, EURAM, SMS and IFSAM, where he completed the cycle of president elect, president and past president (2020-2024), pushing for his Vision 2024. He co-chaired and organized the 2020 IFSAM biennial conference, the first online as well as the IFSAM 30 years’ anniversary ceremony. Under his leadership, IFSAM approved its first policy statement, in the domain of research evaluation. He served as EURAM vicepresident for external relations, being under his tenure that EURAM joined IFSAM. He has been director of his department at HEC UNIL. He also is invited and participates in many developmental activities for doctoral students in the major conferences as well as in CCC.
Further, Xavier also consults for different organizations and has appeared in major international and national outlets (FT, Forbes, Le temps, and NZZ, among others). He is also active in social media, currently in Linkedin (6500 followers), after having abandoned the former media Twitter in 2024.