Jane Lu (City University of Hong Kong, China) 

Jane Lu is Chair Professor at the Department of Management, College of Business, City University of Hong Kong. She received her MBA from China Europe International Business School and PhD from the Ivey School of Business, Western University. Before joining academia, she worked as an export manager in a large international trade company and as the head of the corporate finance department of a Dutch bank in Shanghai. Her management experience has significantly shaped her research interests.

Jane’s research centers on the intersection of organization theory and strategy with a focus on international strategy and non-market strategy. Her earlier research investigates broad issues underlying a firm’s international strategy, as well as specific strategic questions, such as how to make a successful foreign entry into a country or how to manage successfully in a foreign country. Her recent research continues this line but focuses on emerging market firms and their non-market strategies. Her work has appeared in leading journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of International Business Studies. She is among the top 2% of the world’s most highly cited scholars in business and management.

Jane served as Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2016-2018) and President of the Asia Academy of Management (2020-2024). She is currently a Senior Editor of the Journal of World Business and a Consulting Editor of the Journal of International Business Studies. Jane is an elected Fellow and Vice President (Administration) of the Academy of International Business. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Fellow: David Ahlstrom (Hong Kong Metropolitan University and Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

David Ahlstrom is Associate Dean (Research) at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Ahlstrom’s research includes managing in Asia, innovation and entrepreneurship, and economic history. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as the Strategic Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Organization Science, Journal of Management Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, International Business Review, and International Journal of Research in Marketing.

He has served as Editor-in-Chief, Senior Editor, and Consulting Editor of both official journals of the Asia Academy of Management: Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Asia Management.

He has also served as a Senior Editor for the Journal of World Business. He has guest edited several special issues for top journals, including APJM, Journal of Management Studies, and Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice. In 2019, Professor Ahlstrom was co-chair of the Asia Academy of Management biennial conference in Bali, Indonesia, where he became one of the inaugural Fellows.

Fellow: Garry Bruton (Texas Christian University, USA)

Garry D. Bruton is a Professor of Management at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University. His research interests are at the intersection of entrepreneurship, international business, and strategy. He has published over 100 articles in leading journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, and Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice. In addition, he has co-authored three textbooks. Previously he was President of the Asia Academy of Management and former General Editor of the Academy of Management Perspectives and Journal of Management Studies. He is the only person to hold the Hall Fulbright Chair in Entrepreneurship twice. In 2018, Clarivate Analytics identified Professor Bruton as one of the 96 most cited faculty in the world in all Business and Economics disciplines for research published during 2006-2016. In 2019, he was identified using Web of Science data as among the 0.1% of the world’s faculty for citations of his research in all disciplines in all universities in the world for research published during 2008-2018. In 2021, he was #74 in the US in business and management domains (largely all fields except finance and economics) for citation impact (H-factor), according to Research.com. In 2022, he was identified as one of the top ten authors in the world from 1995-2020 in the three leading entrepreneurship journals (ETP, JBV, and SEJ). In 2023, Stanford University identified Professor Bruton as one of the top 2% of cited scholars in all disciplines in the world. In 2024, he was appointed as the Charles F. and Alann P. Bedford Professorship of International Business at TCU.

Fellow: Michael Carney (Concordia University, Canada)

Michael Carney is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at John Molson School of Business, Concordia University, Montréal. His research interests are comparative institutional analysis, emerging market business groups, and family firms. His research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizations Studies, and Strategic Management Journal. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management between 2013 and 2015. He published his first APJM paper in 1998 and subsequently published 11 peer-reviewed papers in the journal. He was a visiting professor at Renmin University, Beijing, between 2015 and 2019. Professor Carney retains a strong interest in understanding the relationship between politics and the growth and development of Asian organizations.

Fellow: Andrew Delios (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Andrew Delios is Professor and Vice-Dean MSc Programs at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He was Head of the Department of Strategy and Policy at NUS for 8 years. His research looks at strategy, governance, and global competition in emerging economies, with a particular focus on international business issues for companies operating in East and Southeast Asia. Andrew has authored more than 100 journal articles, case studies, and book chapters, as well as seven books, including Transnational Management: Concepts and Cases in Cross-Border Management, 9th edition. He has served as an Editor for several leading journals—including as Editor-in-Chief for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2004-2006). From 2011-2013, Andrew served as the President of the Asia Academy of Management. He became a Fellow of the Academy of International Business in 2013. He has just completed a three-year term on the Board of the Academy of International Business. He completed his Ph.D. in 1998 at the Richard Ivey School of Business, Western University of Ontario.

Andrew has worked and lived in Asia for 27 years, including three years in Hong Kong and two in Japan. He has also worked in Australia, Canada, China, Finland, India, Mexico, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States. At NUS, he has taught in numerous programs, including executive programs and the Executive MBA program in Australia, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. He has done corporate work with numerous leading companies in Asia including DBS Bank, OCBC Bank, Singapore Airlines Engineering Corporation, Bank Indonesia, PT Astra, Aditya Birla, the AWBA group, Bank of China (Hong Kong), Bank Mandiri, BCA Bank, and many others.

Aside from his work at NUS, he has taught strategy and international business at Hong Kong Baptist University for its DBA program, for the EMBA program for Chinese University of Hong Kong, for the EHL-CEIBS HEMBA program, and for Tsinghua’s EMBA program, among others. He was an owner and director in Belgarath Investments Limited, a company that was engaged in international franchising in Asia, both as a franchisee and franchisor, with such brands as Chili’s, Subway, and Sarpino’s Pizza.

Fellow: Ajai Gaur (Rutgers University, USA)

Ajai Gaur is a Professor of Strategic Management and International Business at Rutgers Business School. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business since 2019 and a consulting editor at the Journal of International Business Studies since 2017. He was elected as the President of the Asia Academy of Management for two terms from 2015 to 2019. In 2021, Ajai was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. In 2024, he was elected as a Fellow of the Asia Academy of Management.

In his research, Ajai studies the distinct institutional influences on firms’ international expansion strategies in different institutional contexts. A related focus of his research is to study institutional influences on various firm-level governance mechanisms and their strategic and performance consequences. Empirically, he has examined firms based in Australia, China, Germany, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, the UK, and the USA.

Ajai has published articles in leading strategy and international business journals, including Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Journal of World Business. Ajai has won various awards for his scholarship including the AIB Best Dissertation Proposal Award (2006), AIB Best Dissertation Award (2008), and AIB Best Paper Awards in 2014, 2022, and 2024. To learn more, please visit www.ajaigaur.com

Fellow: Chung Ming Lau (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Professor Chung Ming Lau retired from the Department of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was the Chairman of the Department of Management and served as Director of Center of International Business Studies. Chung Ming obtained his PhD from Texas A&M University in the field of organizational behavior. His BSSc (Economics) and MBA degrees are from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has received an Outstanding Doctoral Alumni Award from the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.

Chung Ming was active in promoting research and scholarship in Asia. He was the founding President of the Asia Academy of Management and a member of the editorial board of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management.

Chung Ming’s teaching and research interests include strategic change, internationalization of Chinese firms, and management of church organizations. He also once severed as associate editor of Academy of Management Perspectives. As a result of the academic research work, he published in leading academic journals such as Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Organizational Science, among others.

Mike Peng (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)

Mike Peng (PhD, University of Washington) is the Jindal Chair of Global Strategy and Executive Director of the Center for Global Business, Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He is President of the Asia Academy of Management (AAOM), where he is a Fellow. He is also a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award winner. He previously served on the faculty at the Ohio State University, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and University of Hawaii. He was a visiting professor in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Hong Kong, Mexico, and Vietnam.

At AAOM, Professor Peng served as Editor-in-Chief for the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2007–2009), Program Chair for the main conference in Bali, Indonesia (2019), and Vice President (2020–2024). As President (2024–2026), he is leading two major initiatives: (1) launching a Special Conference series, which will commence in Bangkok, Thailand, in June 2025; (2) rebranding the Asian Case Research Journal to become a practitioner-oriented, insights-rich new journal Asia Management, which will be launched in 2026.

Professor Peng’s research is both prolific and impactful. He has published over 170 articles in leading journals. His three market-leading textbooks, Global Business, Global Strategy, and Global, have been translated in Chinese, Portuguese, and Spanish; and adapted for the Europe/EMEA and India/South Asia markets. He has 66,000+ GoogleScholar citations and an H-index of 102. As of September 1, 2024, according to GoogleScholar citations, he is ranked #1, #3, and #8 in the world, respectively, in the fields of global strategy, international business, and strategic management.

Professor Peng is also an active consultant. His consulting clients include AstraZeneca, Berlitz, Ericsson, Hong Kong Research Grants Council, MTR Hong Kong, Nationwide, SAFRAN, Texas Instruments, UK Government Office for Science, and The World Bank. He is founder and CEO of Global Business Strategy, Inc.

Fellow: Kulwant Singh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Kulwant Singh (PhD, University of Michigan) is Professor of Strategy and Policy at NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. Kulwant is also a Fellow of the Asia Academy of Management, an Honorary Fellow at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a member of the Advisory Boards of the Norwegian School of Economics, and the BMI Institute of Lithuania.

Kulwant was the Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management from 1995 to 1998, and Chief Editor from 1999 to 2003. His Editorship saw a series of changes in APJM, including the move from two to three issues annually in 1999 to four issues in 2001. A regular series of special conferences and special issues were introduced. Two other major changes were moving APJM to Springer as publishers and initiating the appointment of APJM as the official journal of the Asia Academy of Management.

Fellow: Chi-Sum Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China)

Chi-Sum Wong was born in Hong Kong and graduated from the Faculty of Business Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management of Purdue University in the USA. He joined the Department of Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1990 and he is now an Emeritus Professor. Professor Wong has published and presented more than 200 articles in academic journals and international conferences. He has served on the editorial board of various journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of World Business, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and others. Due to his academic achievement, Professor Wong is recognized as an honorary professor by famous universities, such as Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou), Nanjing University, Lanzhou University, and National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan). He has conducted research for the United Nations Center for Regional Development and the Employers’ Federation of Hong Kong, and has served as consultant and trainer for private organizations, The World Bank, and various government and social agencies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Taiwan, Macao, and Hong Kong.

At the Asia Academy of Management, Professor Wong is one of the founding members. His contributions include services as Treasurer (1998-2002) and as Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management (2019-2021). He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors since 2015, and has been one of the inaugural Fellows since 2019.

Daphne Yiu (Singapore Management University, Singapore)

Daphne Yiu is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. Prior to joining SMU, Professor Yiu held the Rath Chair in Strategic Management at University of Oklahoma and Professor of Management at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Professor Yiu has a long-term engagement in the Asia Academy of Management (AAOM), the first affiliate of the Academy of Management, the largest academic association in the field of management since 2008. Witnessing the founding process of AAOM, Professor Yiu has served the academy in various capacities: as PDW Chair at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Treasurer (elected), President (elected), Outgoing President, Board of Directors, and Fellows.

During her presidency, she extended and tightened, strategic collaborations with various management academic associations in Abu Dhabi, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan, and the largest academic association in international business—Academy of International Business. She was a long-term Senior Editor at the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and organized a number of APJM PDW in different regions of Asia and China in the past years.