Mirjana Pejić Bach is a full professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in system dynamics modeling from the Faculty of Economics, University of Zagreb. She was trained at the MIT Sloan School of Management in system dynamics and OliviaGroup in data mining. She is the leader and collaborator of numerous projects in which she cooperates with Croatian companies and international organizations, mainly through European Union projects and the bilateral research framework. Her research areas are the strategic application of information technology in business, data science, simulation modeling, research methodology, qualitative and quantitative, especially multivariate statistics, and modeling structural equations. She is the editor of several scientific journals indexed in Scopus and WoS and has organized several conferences and given plenary lectures at congresses, such as IEEE Systems. She has won several international awards for her scientific work, such as the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence. She received the largest number of citations from the field of Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing. The main goal of her work is to support aspiring researchers through mentoring doctoral theses and developing their scientific careers.

Dalia Suša Vugec is currently employed as a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics & Business, University of Zagreb. She graduated in managerial informatics in 2012 at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business, where in 2020 she earned her PhD. In 2012, she received the Dean’s Award for Excellence for her graduate thesis. She attended additional education at the School of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and the University of Zagreb. She actively participated in several scientific projects. She is the author and co-author of many papers published in international scientific journals and presented at international scientific conferences. She is a reviewer for several international scientific journals and conferences. As a former member and president of the Croatian Students Association, she was also actively involved in the organization of numerous projects and conferences like the Days of the European Union, International Week Zagreb, etc. Her main research interests are digital and information literacy, digital trace, business process management, robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, digital transformation, knowledge management, social media and networks, Web 2.0 services and technologies, and e-learning.

Sarwar Khawaja is a British educationist, thought leader, sociopreneur, and philanthropist. He is an Honorary Professor of Business Management in the Department of International Business at the Małopolska J.Dietl University in Krakow, Poland. As the Founder of SK HUB, Chairman of the Executive Board at Oxford Business College, and Chairman and CEO of Ealing College Upper School, he has more than three decades of experience in leading and transforming educational institutions in the UK and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), as well as a Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and City University alumnus. Additionally, he is a Distinguished Professor of Practice in Business Administration at Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad. He is a member of the British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS), UK. He is Chairman of Oxford Education Group which is dedicated to improving higher education, learning technologies, and academic eco-system. He has co-authored a critically acclaimed book ‘The Teacher’ along with the internationally bestselling author, Nobel Prize nominee, and the inventor of mind mapping Tony Buzan. ‘The Teacher’ was released worldwide and is being translated into several languages. In 2018, he has been accepted by the European Economic Senate (EES) as a Senator. He is also Chairman of the European Council on Global Relations.

Fayyaz Hussain Qureshi is the Director of the ‘Centre of Applied Research and Entrepreneurship (CARE) and Chair of Research & Quality Assurance Committees. He is working on the strategic planning and effective implementation of his proposed strategy, “Pragmatic Path of Growth”, at OBC. Responsible for the strategic leadership and development of CARE and a multidisciplinary research portfolio within the College, he holds more than twenty years of experience in the UK private higher education sector. In addition to his academic career, he has held positions of Principal, Vice Principal, and Head of Business Department in different private higher education institutes in the UK. He also worked as an MBA dissertation supervisor for more than five years. Presently, he is a Peer Reviewer for Emerald Publishing. In the past, he held the positions of Secretary–Information & Finance at Amnesty International, Pakistan, and Senior Vice President of multipurpose Welfare Trusts in Pakistan. He holds several degrees in pure sciences, social sciences, English Literature, Marketing & Finance, and Internet Technologies from renowned institutions including Luton University, Cranfield University, Gloucestershire University, Edge Hill University, University of Chester, and Gothenburg University-Sweden and the University of Punjab-Pakistan. In addition, he earned a doctorate in marketing from the UK.

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