Sapna A. Narula currently serves Nalanda University, India where she is Professor and Dean of School of Management Studies. She is adistinguished academician in agribusiness and sustainability who has made immense contribution to the discipline throughher teaching, research and consultancy efforts. During her career span of 22 years in university teaching, research andconsultancy, she has also played a key role in advancing education for agribusiness through a number of initiatives targetedat raising awareness generation and capacity building amongst corporates, youth, managers, and policy-makers. She hasplayed a key role in designing innovative academic programmes such as MBA/Business Sustainability, MBA/Agribusinessand MBA/Food Supply Chain Management. She has also spearheaded various sustainability initiatives which she promotedfor youth such as Green Shift (2018), BLISS (Building Learning in Sustainability Science, 2014) andhas been on the jury ofmany sustainability related awards/initiatives. She is currently serving as President of Global Network for SustainableDevelopment, Arizona, US as its President has been associated with the UN Global Compact Network of India, PRME(Principles of Responsible Management Education), Connecting Dreams Foundation and National Agricultural HigherEducation Project (ICAR) in various advisory roles for the cause of sustainable development goals. She has also held keyleadership positions in prestigious Universities in India and has delivered several keynotes, and distinguished sessions atmany Universities abroad. She was a visiting professor in Department of Management, Deakin University, Australia (2018). Arecipient of many awards notably Prosper. Net Scopus Young Scientist Award for Sustainable Development, 2011 deliveredjointly by the German Ministry, United Nations University and Elsevier and a Young Scientist Award (2009) from UttarakhandCouncil for Science and Technology, Government of Uttarakhand, she has worked on research projects funded by variousnational and international organizations EPSRC, DFID, IFAD., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. One of the researchprojects where she led sustainable livelihood work has also won UN Global Compact Innovative SDG Practices Award 2019.She has published her research extensively in journals (Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Sustainable Mining,Business Strategy and Development, CSR and Environmental Management among many others) and a paper written by herin the context of organic food has won the Outstanding Paper Award 2021.
S. P. Raj is chair of the marketing department and Distinguished Professor at the Whitman School of Management, SyracuseUniversity. He holds the Irwin and Marjorie Guttag Endowed Professorship and serves as Director of the Snyder Innovation Management Center and chair of the Department of Marketing, Supply Chain and Retail Management.He has previously served as interim dean and as senior associate dean for the school. He was also a tenured full professor ofmarketing at Cornell University and a visiting faculty at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. Hewas the founding editor of the Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies. Raj’s research on marketingstrategies, their influence on customer behavior, and managing new product development and innovation is cited extensivelywith over 2500 citations in the Social Sciences Citation Index and 7500 in Google Scholar. His work has been recognizedwith prestigious awards such as the John D. C. Little Award by the Institute for Management Sciences, a finalist for theWilliam F O’Dell award by the Journal of Marketing Research, the Donald R. Lehmann Award by the AMA and many BestPaper awards inconferences. His research was supported by the NSF/Corporate Center for Innovation ManagementStudies. He has published in leading journals such as Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of MarketingResearch, Journal of Consumer Research, Research Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of BusinessResearch, Journal of Product Innovation Management, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. He holds aPh.D. and M.S. from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.