Globalization, Human Rights and Populism: Reimagining People, Power and Places

Adebowale Akande is one of the world's top contributors and productive cross-cultural researchers for research publications with over 33.000 Google scholar citations and over 200 refereed articles/chapters. Akande has held faculty appointments at several international universities. In 1998, he was appointed the first black full professor at a white most prestigious university in South Africa. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship in 1992; the IUPSYS International Award in 1996, and the Frank Andrew UniMICH in 1996. Further, he received the ISP Award in 2000, a Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship in 2005, a Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship in 2008, a Fellowship of Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria in 2008, a Certificate of Honor, Indian Institute of Planning and Management, in 2008, and the IAGT Award in 2018. He was a co-recipient of the 2007 Ursula Gielen Global Book Award and the Gordon W. Allport Prize (2005) for research on ambivalent sexism. Akande's major research interests mainly focus on relationships among transnational self-esteem, learning, power, political influence, prejudice. He is also known as a popularizer of cross-cultural studies. He currently serves as an international director for IR GLOBE in Vancouver and a guest professor to a number of Canadian Universities in British Columbia, Canada.

Adebowale Akande 是全球頂尖的貢獻者之一，也是生產力高的跨文化研究者，擁有超過 33,000 次 Google Scholar 引用和 200 多篇經過審核的文章/章節。Akande 曾在多所國際大學擔任教職。1998 年，他被任命為南非一所白人最負盛名大學的首位黑人正教授。在多項獲獎中，Akande 於 1992 年獲得英聯邦學術獎學金；1996 年獲得 IUPSYS 國際獎；1996 年獲得 Frank Andrew UniMICH 獎。進一步來說，他於 2000 年獲得 ISP 獎，2005 年獲得台灣政府國際學者獎學金，2008 年獲得日本日本財團獎學金，2008 年獲得奧地利 Schloss Leopoldskron 獎學金，2008 年獲得印度規劃與管理學院的榮譽證書，以及 2018 年的 IAGT 獎。他是 2007 年 Ursula Gielen 全球圖書獎和 2005 年 Gordon W. Allport 獎的共同獲獎者，該獎項是針對對立性性別歧視的研究。Akande 的主要研究興趣主要集中在跨國自尊、學習、權力、政治影響和偏見之間的關係。他也以推廣跨文化研究而聞名。目前，他擔任位於溫哥華的 IR GLOBE 國際主任，以及加拿大不列顛哥倫比亞省多所大學的客座教授。