Professor Luiz Moutinho (BA, MA, PhD, MAE, FCIM) is Visiting Professor of Marketing at the Faculty of Arts, Business and Applied Social Science, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, UK. In 2020 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea, and in 2017 he received the title of Professor Honoris Causa from the University of Tourism and Management Skopje, North Macedonia. In 2025 he was ranked among the top 85 of the 100 best scientists in Business and Management by Research.com and listed in the top 0.05% of global scholars in Marketing and Management by ScholarGPS. From 2015 to 2017, he served as Professor of BioMarketing and Futures Research at DCU Business School, Dublin City University—the world’s first chair covering both fields. Prior to this, he held the Foundation Chair of Marketing at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow, for 20 years. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield in 1982 and has been a Full Professor for 36 years, with academic posts at Cardiff Business School, Cleveland State University, Northern Arizona University, and California State University. He has also held Visiting Professorships in China, Lithuania, Austria, New Zealand, Denmark, Slovenia, Portugal, Hungary, Taiwan, Brazil, Colombia, Fiji and Cyprus. Professor Moutinho directed doctoral programmes at the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools, Cardiff Business School, and the University of Glasgow. He is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Modelling in Management and Co-editor-in-Chief of Innovative Marketing, serving on the editorial boards of 47 journals. His research spans marketing futurecast, AI, biometrics, neuroscience, evolutionary algorithms, consumer behaviour modelling, and tourism futurecast. He has delivered keynote addresses in 64 countries and has published 41 books and over 163 refereed journal articles.

Dr. Chris Stout is a licensed clinical psychologist and international humanitarian with a diverse background in various domains. He is the Founding Director of the Center for Global Initiatives (a Top-Rated Nonprofit) and is the Executive Producer and Host of the popular “Living a Life in Full” a top-ranked podcast with an audience of over 3 million. He was a Fellow in the School of Public Health and Full Professor in the Department of Psychiatry in the College of Medicine at the University of Illinois, Chicago and prior to that he held an academic appointment at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He served as a NGO Special Representative and had the honor of speaking at the United Nations; he holds the distinction of being one of only 100 world-wide leaders appointed to the World Economic Forum’s Global Leaders of Tomorrow and was an Invited Faculty at the Annual Meeting in Davos. Dr. Stout is a worldwide speaker, organizational consultant and startup whisperer having worked or traveled in all 50 states, over 100 countries and 6 continents. He was noted as being “one of the most frequently cited psychologists in the scientific literature.” He is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association, past-President of the Illinois Psychological Association, and is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academies of Practice. He is a Best-Selling Author, having published 38 books. His works have been translated into 8 languages. He is a recipient of four Humanitarian Awards and four additional honorary doctorates. He is a popular LinkedIn Top Voice nearing a half-million followers and has been a guest on CNBC, CNN, NBC, PBS, NPR, and Oprah. He was listed in Fast Co.’s Global Fast 50 nominees and in TED Founder Richard Saul Wurman’s “Who’s Really Who.” His professional archive was deeded to the Smithsonian’s Museum for the History of Psychology. He balances all his academic and humanitarian efforts with time with his family, adventure sports, and mountaineering (having climbed 3 of the world’s 7 Summits).

Jahnavi Kachhia is an Global Product Owner, AI & ML specializing in scalable, production-grade intelligent systems. Her work focuses on translating advanced machine learning research into real-world, high-impact applications, with emphasis on trustworthy and responsible AI. She has contributed to large-scale AI-driven platforms, including LLM-based intelligent systems and complex distributed technologies. Jahnavi serves on the Program Committees of IJCAI (2025, 2026) and PAKDD (2026), reviews for leading AI conferences, and has peer-reviewed publications in IEEE Xplore and Hindawi spanning deep learning, signal processing, and applied AI systems.

Ify Nwiwu is a qualified and accomplished Registered Nurse, holding both RNLD and RGN registrations. She is a PhD researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, where her work focuses on the lived experiences and healthcare implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Breast Ironing (BI). Ify graduated with a First-Class degree in Learning Disability Nursing and later completed a master’s degree in Adult Nursing, both from the University of Wolverhampton. She is a multi-award-winning researcher, recognised at several national and international academic conferences for her work on FGM and BI. These accolades include recognition from institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Leeds Beckett University, and the University of Wolverhampton, among others. In addition, Ify has published a number of articles focusing on women’s health, women’s rights, cultural practices, and advocacy for vulnerable and marginalised groups. With a diverse professional background, Ify has worked extensively within the NHS as a Health Facilitation Nurse and a Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS, as well as in the private healthcare sector. Her clinical, academic, and leadership experience informs her holistic and person-centred approach to care. Ify is currently a Lecturer in Learning Disability Nursing at the faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing at the University of Sunderland in London. She is deeply committed to advocacy for women and vulnerable children, using her own lived experience to inspire and empower others. Having pursued her education as an adult learner, she is particularly passionate about encouraging women to return to education, build confidence, and develop the skills to advocate for themselves and their communities. Her work reflects a strong commitment to social justice, equality in healthcare, and the advancement of culturally competent, trauma-informed practice.

Marco Carotenuto, MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy). His clinical and research activity focuses on pediatric sleep disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD, ADHD), neuroinflammation, and translational sleep neurobiology. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and serves in editorial roles for international journals in pediatric neurology and sleep medicine. Professor Carotenuto’s research integrates polysomnography, sleep microstructure (including CAP analysis), inflammatory biomarkers, and executive functioning assessment to characterize multidimensional sleep phenotypes in children. His work explores the interaction between glymphatic physiology, immune signaling pathways, and cortical regulatory dynamics. He is currently developing biologically grounded models of Persistent Regulatory Cortical Activation (PRCA) to explain sleep instability across neurodevelopmental conditions and to support individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in pediatric populations.

Dr. Bernd Blobel studied Mathematics, Technical Cybernetics and Electronics, Bio-Cybernetics, Physics, Medicine and Informatics at the University of Magdeburg and other universities in the former GDR. He received his PhD in Physics with a neurophysiological study. Furthermore, he performed the Habilitation (qualification as university professor) in Medicine and Informatics. He was Head of the Institute for Biometrics and Medical Informatics at the University of Magdeburg, and thereafter Head of the Health Telematics Project Group at the Fraunhofer IIS in Erlangen. Thereafter, he acted until his retirement as Head of the German National eHealth Competence Center as well as Head of the globally unique International Interdisciplinary PhD and PostDoc College at the University of Regensburg. He was and is still leadingly involved in many countries health digitalization as well as electronic health record strategy. He published more than 600 papers, published/edited many books and supervised a big number of PhD students from all around the world. He was German Representative to many SDOs such as HL7, ISO, CEN, OMG, IEEE, ASTM, SNOMED, etc., also chairing the national mirror groups. Furthermore, he still engaged in international higher education. He is Fellow of several international academies and played specific roles in global organizations such as WHO, European Commission, UNESCO, etc. He is also Visiting Professor at the Charles University in Prague. His extended publication list is available at https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/view/people/Blobel=3ABernd=3A=3A.html.

Marco Carotenuto, MD, PhD, is Full Professor of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” (Italy). His clinical and research activity focuses on pediatric sleep disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions (ASD, ADHD), neuroinflammation, and translational sleep neurobiology. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications and serves in editorial roles for international journals in pediatric neurology and sleep medicine. Professor Carotenuto’s research integrates polysomnography, sleep microstructure (including CAP analysis), inflammatory biomarkers, and executive functioning assessment to characterize multidimensional sleep phenotypes in children. His work explores the interaction between glymphatic physiology, immune signaling pathways, and cortical regulatory dynamics. He is currently developing biologically grounded models of Persistent Regulatory Cortical Activation (PRCA) to explain sleep instability across neurodevelopmental conditions and to support individualized diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in pediatric populations.

Professor Ashok K. Chakraborty, PhD, has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process. After earning a Bachelor of Science from the University of Calcutta (India), Dr. Chakraborty earned a master's degree from the same institution. He subsequently received a PhD in Pigment Cell Biology, breast cancer, and melanoma metastasis research through the University of Calcutta in 1980. Over the course of his career, he parlayed his expertise to others as an invited lecturer at Japanese universities (Kobe), and as a research scientist and associate professor at Yale University, where he worked between 1989 and 2014 on Melanoma Biology, Pigment Cell Biology and Breast Cancer Drug Discovery. Supported by his extensive experience, Dr. Chakraborty presently excels as a senior research analyst for AllExcel Inc. Over the years, he has contributed to more than 130 publications, including in Cancer Drug Discovery, Virology, and Neuro-degenerative diseases. He has published his work in peer-reviewed medical journals of the American Association for Cancer Research, Melanoma Research and Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, Elsevier Publications, PLoS one, and in Nature. In order to remain aware of changes in the field, Dr. Chakraborty is affiliated with the Pan-American Society and the Dermatological Society and American Cancer Society. He is also the regular reviewer of several science journals, and in the Editorial Board of various peer-reviewed journals. While his career has been filled with highlights, he is most proud to have joined AllExcel, where he is working on neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease, and also drug discovery for COVID-19, and Cancer. Since joining the organization, he has reprogrammed neural stem cells non-genetically and transplanted them into a rat PD model, which helped to revert disease symptoms and cognition defects. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, he also began working on a new polymer-based nano-micelles antiviral regiment, which showed its dual activity to combat disease. Most of these works were already published as a Review and/or as a Research article in more than 20 peer-reviewed journals including Frontiers, Elsevier Publications. Besides the above he is also teaching Chemistry of Nutrition as a Professor of Chemistry at the Sacred heart University. He has already published 20 papers on Nutrition and its Importance on disease management. Looking toward the future, Dr. Chakraborty intends to conduct a clinical trial for a Parkinson's disease treatment, as well as macrophage polarization for cancer treatment.

Jahnavi Kachhia is an Global Product Owner, AI & ML specializing in scalable, production-grade intelligent systems. Her work focuses on translating advanced machine learning research into real-world, high-impact applications, with emphasis on trustworthy and responsible AI. She has contributed to large-scale AI-driven platforms, including LLM-based intelligent systems and complex distributed technologies. Jahnavi serves on the Program Committees of IJCAI (2025, 2026) and PAKDD (2026), reviews for leading AI conferences, and has peer-reviewed publications in IEEE Xplore and Hindawi spanning deep learning, signal processing, and applied AI systems.

Dr. Smita Guha is a Full Professor at St. John’s University in the School of Education. She is the Chairperson of the Department of Curriculum and Instruction. She received her Ph.D. from State University of New York at Buffalo. She is a professor of teacher education in the STEM area. She has over ten years of experience working with children and over 28 years of experience teaching in higher education. To build foundation in teacher education, her current research focuses on child development and cultural perspective. She has authored four books: Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders and Healthy Children, Teachers as Researcher and Critical Literacy for Socio-emotional learning. Her articles have been published in peer reviewed scholarly journals. She presented at numerous conferences at International, National, State and Regional levels. Recently, she was awarded Faculty Leadership and Service award from St. John’s university, Proclamation from The Assembly State of New York, Citation from New York State Assembly as Outstanding Individual and Fulbright US Scholar award: Academic and Professional Fellowship.

Dr. Cynthia N. Brysch, PhD, is a global life-science executive with 20+ years of experience in immunology and product development. She has led 500+ product campaigns, supported 200+ global inspections, and specializes in translating science into compliant, market-ready solutions. As Vice President & COO of Devine Guidance International, Inc., she advances global access by bridging science, regulation, and policy.

Albin Kaelin is the founder, owner and CEO of epeaswitzerland gmbh since its foundation in 2009 and has driven the development and implementation of the Cradle to Cradle® design concept and Digital Product Passport Compass Cradle to CradleTM in various areas of industry. As early as 1993, he initiated the development of the Climatex® product line, which produced the world's first Cradle to Cradle® products. Cradle to Cradle® design creates recyclable products by setting itself apart from conventional recycling and maintaining the quality of the raw materials over several product life cycles. All materials are considered nutrients and are used in defined cycles at the right time and in the right place. Author “From Rebel to Radical Innovator; Leading the Transformation through Circularity” Albin Kaelin

Codrina Ancuța is a leading Romanian rheumatologist, serving as Professor of Rheumatology at the prestigious “Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Iași - one of the oldest and most respected medical schools in Romania, Consultant in Rheumatology, and Head of the 2ndRheumatology Department at the Clinical Rehabilitation Hospital. She graduated from the same university in 1994, obtained her specialization in Rheumatology in 1999 and in Rehabilitation Medicine in 2001, defended her PhD in Internal Medicine on the challenging topic of rheumatoid myositisin 2005, and completed her habilitation in 2019 with a thesis entitled “Insights and Perspectives in Immune-Mediated Rheumatic Disorders.” With more than two decades of experience, she has combined clinical excellence with academic leadership, also coordinating the EUSTAR (European Scleroderma Trials and Research) Center 162 in Iași. Professor Ancuța has acted as principal investigator or team member in over 90 randomized controlled trials, reflecting her strong engagement in advancing evidence-based therapies. She has authored numerous ISI-indexed publications, with significant contributions to the understanding and management of biological therapies in rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathies, and autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as lupus, systemic sclerosis, and Sjögren’s syndrome. She is also frequently invited by major pharmaceutical companies as an expert lecturer and scientific advisor, contributing to educational programs, symposia, and professional training activities in rheumatology at both national and international levels. Her professional mission is to improve patient outcomes, inspire the next generation of clinicians, and foster innovation in rheumatology through compassionate care, rigorous research, and academic excellence.

Assoc. Prof. Elif Sibel Aslan graduated from the Department of Biology at Erciyes University, Türkiye. She obtained her Master’s degree in Applied Microbiology from the University of Westminster, London, UK, and completed her PhD at London Metropolitan University, London, UK, where her doctoral research focused on iron deficiency anemia. During her PhD, she also undertook teaching responsibilities and contributed to academic activities at the same institution. She is currently a Visiting Scientist at London Metropolitan University, contributing to an ongoing research project. Since 2014, Dr. Aslan has been a faculty member at Biruni University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics. She currently serves as Vice Dean of the Faculty. She has also held several academic leadership roles, including Chair of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Head of the Molecular and Medical Genetics graduate programs at the Master’s and PhD levels. She was awarded the title of Associate Professor in Medical Biology on July 25, 2025. Her research interests include epigenetics, nutrigenomics, molecular biology, and cell biology, with a particular emphasis on gene–environment interactions and translational biomedical research. She maintains an active research profile through national and international collaborations, participation in scientific conferences, and authorship of peer-reviewed publications. She is married and the mother of twin daughters.

Ms. Farah Qureshi is a neuroscientist specialising in brain health, nervous system regulation, and subconscious change. My work integrates qEEG brain mapping, neurofeedback, hypnosis, and neuroscience-based coaching to support measurable and lasting improvements in emotional regulation, cognitive performance, sleep, and resilience. Using data-driven insight alongside trauma-informed approaches, I help clients move beyond symptom management by understanding how their brain functions and how it can be retrained. My approach prioritises safety, regulation, and integration—allowing meaningful change to occur without overwhelm. I work across clinical, performance, and personal development contexts, supporting individuals to restore balance, build self-regulation, and create sustainable change in daily life.

Ify Nwiwu is a qualified and accomplished Registered Nurse, holding both RNLD and RGN registrations. She is a PhD researcher at the University of Wolverhampton, where her work focuses on the lived experiences and healthcare implications of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and Breast Ironing (BI). Ify graduated with a First-Class degree in Learning Disability Nursing and later completed a master’s degree in Adult Nursing, both from the University of Wolverhampton. She is a multi-award-winning researcher, recognised at several national and international academic conferences for her work on FGM and BI. These accolades include recognition from institutions such as the University of Cambridge, Leeds Beckett University, and the University of Wolverhampton, among others. In addition, Ify has published a number of articles focusing on women’s health, women’s rights, cultural practices, and advocacy for vulnerable and marginalised groups. With a diverse professional background, Ify has worked extensively within the NHS as a Health Facilitation Nurse and a Mental Health Practitioner with CAMHS, as well as in the private healthcare sector. Her clinical, academic, and leadership experience informs her holistic and person-centred approach to care. Ify is currently a Lecturer in Learning Disability Nursing at the faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing at the University of Sunderland in London. She is deeply committed to advocacy for women and vulnerable children, using her own lived experience to inspire and empower others. Having pursued her education as an adult learner, she is particularly passionate about encouraging women to return to education, build confidence, and develop the skills to advocate for themselves and their communities. Her work reflects a strong commitment to social justice, equality in healthcare, and the advancement of culturally competent, trauma-informed practice.

Kaylie Van Beek offers a unique, experience-driven perspective on neurodivergence and its connection to physical health. For over 35 years, she has navigated complex personal experiences often misunderstood as a lack of attention, while in reality maintaining a heightened awareness of her surroundings and internal responses. Beginning at age 18, she received multiple diagnoses but found limited clarity through conventional pathways. Through independent research and pattern recognition, she identified herself as both hypermobile and neurodivergent. This led her to explore the intersection of connective tissue disorders, autonomic dysfunction, and neurodivergence, where she recognized similar undiagnosed patterns across four generations of her family. Her journey, initially driven by the need to understand her own health and that of her son, evolved into a conceptual framework she calls “Psychosomatic Profiling.” This approach suggests that certain behaviors commonly labeled as ADHD, autism, or mental illness may reflect physical adaptations to underlying structural and autonomic conditions. While she does not hold a formal medical degree, Kaylie contributes a powerful lived perspective grounded in decades of observation, documentation, and real-life data—aimed at fostering awareness, early recognition, and meaningful dialogue in neuroscience.