Business Analytics and Decision Making in Practice: Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Analytics in Practice (Icbap 2024), Sharja

Ali Emrouznejad is Professor and Chair in Business Analytics at Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK. His areas of research interest include performance measurement and management, efficiency, and productivity analysis as well as data mining and big data. Dr. Emrouznejad actively engages with several prominent academic journals either as Editor or as Editorial Board Member. His publications include over 200 research articles, and several books. See: www.emrouznejad.ac.uk.

Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos is Associate Professor in Business Analytics at the College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, UAE. With a specialization in Operations Research and Statistics, his research interests include data envelopment analysis, efficiency and productivity analysis, performance management, production economics, and statistics. He held academic and research positions at Peking University (China), the London School of Economics (UK), the Academy of Athens (Greece), and the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE, Greece). He has been a member of the World Economic Survey Expert Group and the Economic Experts Survey Group of Ifo (Germany). Panagiotis has served as a Senior Consultant Modeling Statistician at IRi Worldwide and as a Project Manager and Expert in Quantitative Analysis and Public Sector Reform at the European Public Law Organization.

Ilhan Ozturk is Professor of Economics at the University of Sharjah, UAE, and Nisantasi University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is the Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah, UAE. His research interests are in the areas of energy and environmental economics and international economics. The total number of articles published by him is more than 300. Of these articles, 270 are listed by ISI Web of Science-Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) and Science Citation Index (SCI). His researchhas an international focus and has been published in a number of leading international journals. Dr. Ozturk's research has been cited over 45,000 times in peer-reviewed international journals with H-index: 107. In addition, he is Editor and Associate Editor of several international refereed journals. Prof. Ozturk is also a Highly Cited Researcher in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022.

Dima Jamali is Professor and Vice President of Academic Affairs at the Canadian University in Dubai, UAE. She also served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Sharjah, UAE, from August 2020 to August 2023, as Associate Dean and Director for Strategic Partnerships for the Olayan School of Business (OSB). Forbes and Insights Success Magazine have highlighted her as one of the most admired women in the educational sector in 2023. Her research interest focuses on corporate social responsibility. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the journal Business Ethics: A European Review.

John Rice is Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah, UAE. His research interests include strategic management innovation, knowledge and technology management, and open innovation.

Ali Emrouznejad 是英國薩里大學商學院的商業分析教授及系主任。他的研究興趣包括績效衡量與管理、效率與生產力分析，以及數據挖掘和大數據。Emrouznejad 博士積極參與多本知名學術期刊的編輯工作，擔任編輯或編輯委員會成員。他的出版物包括超過 200 篇研究文章和幾本書籍。詳情請見：www.emrouznejad.ac.uk。

Panagiotis D. Zervopoulos 是阿聯酋沙迦大學商業管理學院的商業分析副教授。他專攻運籌學和統計學，研究興趣包括數據包絡分析、效率與生產力分析、績效管理、生產經濟學和統計學。他曾在北京大學（中國）、倫敦政治經濟學院（英國）、雅典學院（希臘）和希臘經濟與工業研究基金會（IOBE）擔任學術和研究職位。他曾是世界經濟調查專家小組和德國 Ifo 經濟專家調查小組的成員。Panagiotis 曾擔任 IRi Worldwide 的高級顧問建模統計師，以及歐洲公共法組織的項目經理和定量分析及公共部門改革專家。

Ilhan Ozturk 是阿聯酋沙迦大學和土耳其伊斯坦堡的 Nisantasi 大學的經濟學教授。他是阿聯酋沙迦大學商業管理學院的院長。他的研究興趣集中在能源與環境經濟學及國際經濟學領域。他發表的文章總數超過 300 篇，其中 270 篇被 ISI Web of Science 社會科學引文索引（SSCI）和科學引文索引（SCI）收錄。他的研究具有國際視野，並在多本領先的國際期刊上發表。Ozturk 博士的研究在同行評審的國際期刊中被引用超過 45,000 次，H 指數為 107。此外，他還擔任多本國際同行評審期刊的編輯和副編輯。Ozturk 教授在 2018、2019、2020、2021 和 2022 年被評選為高被引研究者。

Dima Jamali 是阿聯酋迪拜加拿大大學的教授及學術事務副校長。她曾於 2020 年 8 月至 2023 年 8 月擔任阿聯酋沙迦大學商業管理學院的院長，以及 Olayan 商學院的副院長和戰略夥伴關係主任。福布斯和 Insights Success 雜誌在 2023 年將她評選為教育界最受尊敬的女性之一。她的研究興趣集中在企業社會責任上。她也是期刊《商業倫理：歐洲評論》的主編。

John Rice 是阿聯酋沙迦大學商業管理學院的創新與創業教授。他的研究興趣包括戰略管理創新、知識與技術管理，以及開放式創新。