Officers and Directors

Immediate Past President: 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.

Current President: 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. Mike 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, Mike 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, Mike 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.

Mike’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 65,000+ GoogleScholar citations and an H-index of 101. As of September 1, 2024, according to GoogleScholar, he is ranked #1, #3, and #8 in the world, respectively, in the fields of global strategy, international business, and strategic management.

Mike 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. E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

Vice President (Program): Sanjay Singh (University of Dundee, UK)

Sanjay Singh is Chair Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of Dundee School of Business, Dundee, United Kingdom. His research interests include international and strategic HRM, future of work, knowledge and innovation management, sustainability, and ethics. He has published in Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Human Resource Management Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Journal of International Management, European Management Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Personality & Individual Differences, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Business Strategy & the Environment, and IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, to name a few.

He received Highly Cited Researcher – Clarivate, Web of Science, 2023. Sanjay is Vice President (Program) of the Asia Academy of Management (AAOM) (2024-2026), and will be Co-Program Chair for the AAOM Main Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in June 2026.  [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]

Vice President (Treasurer): Ziliang Deng (Peking University, China)

Ziliang Deng is a Professor at the National School of Development at Peking University and Vice President of the Asia Academy of Management (AAOM). He was a professor at Renmin University of China and a visiting scholar at Rutgers University (USA). He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Nottingham (UK). His research interest primarily revolves around the internationalization of firms in complex regulatory environments. He has contributed articles to the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of World Business, and others. He serves as a Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Associate Editor of the Journal of International Management, an editorial review board member of the Journal of International Business Studies, Management and Organization Review, and Asia Management—AAOM’s newest journal.

His papers were the Best Paper Award Finalists in the 2013, 2014, and 2023 Annual Meetings of AIB. He received the Best Reviewer Award from the Journal of International Business Studies in 2024. [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.] 

Vice President (Secretary): Chinmay Pattnaik (University of Sydney, Australia)

Chinmay Pattnaik is the Academic Director (International) and Associate Professor in the University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and the John H. Dunning Visiting Fellow of International Business at the Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK. His research focuses on the corporate and global strategies of firms based in emerging market economies.

He has published several papers in leading academic journals including Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management, Journal of Business Ethics, and Global Strategy Journal. [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]   

Representative at Large: Subra Ananthram (Curtin University, Australia)

Subra Ananthram is the Dean of Learning and Teaching for the Faculty of Business and Law and Professor of International Business and Innovation at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. He has held several leadership roles at Curtin, including Discipline Lead for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. His research focuses on global mindset, frugal innovation, ethical decision-making, and social entrepreneurship, which has been published in FT50 journals. He also researches on employability and work-integrated learning, contributing to various educational journals. He is a Senior Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Management and an Associate Editor of Higher Education Research and Development. In his spare time, he loves travel, playing sports, and being an engaged dad. [This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.]