Meet The Team
Bursa Uludag University
Yasemin KAYA, is an Assoc. Prof. in the field of Urbanization and Environmental Problems. She received her PhD. in thefield of environmental politics, so environmental policies and sustainability form the main focus of her work. Her academicinterests are international environmental regimes, climate change, sustainable development, green economy, and urbanresilience. She has many publications on related topics. She also conducted a project on Green Economy Practices in theTurkish Industry. She provides professional support and collaborations with other universities, public institutions and NGOsas an external expert and trainer on climate policy, climate justice, and ecological security. She has conducted severaldissertations examining problems from an environmental perspective. She has a leadership spirit due to her administrative background, she has the skill to motivate team members easily. She is the coordinator of the project.
Sevda GÜRSAKAL PhD. is a Prof. in the field of Econometrics. Her academic interest areas are multivariate statistics, nonparametricstatistics, machine learning, data mining and wavelet method. She published articles on corporate sustainabilityand environmental issues. She is a member of BUU's Student Affairs and Education Steering Committee and takes anactive role in curriculum development. She carries out an active role in the Quality Management System and AccreditationProcesses of BUU and the Faculty where sustainability is considered a strategic priority. She is currently involved in a Horizon project.
Funda ÖZÇELÄ°K PhD. is an Assoc. Prof in the field of Accounting and Finance. Her main academic research area isenvironmental accounting, lean accounting, and value stream costing. Her research on sustainability performances of firms,corporate sustainability, and environmental accounting reveals her interest in sustainability and green transformation. She teaches sustainability reporting courses in the post-graduate.
Burcu AVCI ÖZTÜRK PhD. is an Assoc. Prof. in the field of Operations Research. Her academic interests are data envelopment analysis, efficiency measurement, multi-criteria decision making and fuzzy optimization techniques. She published articles on sustainable supply chain management, sustainability performance and corporate sustainability.
Esma BÄ°RÄ°ÅžÇÄ° PhD. is an Assist. Prof. in the field of Statistics. She has experience in operations dynamics on stochasticnon-linear programming in large-scale optimization and life cycle assessment. Her research on reducing the overproductionof food waste reveals her interest in sustainability and green transformation.
Fatih Bilal GÖKPINAR is a Res. Assist. He is a Ph.D. candidate in the International Relations department, and his mainresearch areas are environmental politics, foreign policy analysis and climate migration.
IESEG School of Management
The lead researcher at IÉSEG, Ronald McGARVEY (Full Professor of Operations Management), has deep experienceapplying operations management principles to sustainability-related topics. His research in these areas spans both theacademic (with publications in such journals as Nature: Scientific Reports; Environment, Development and Sustainability;Environmental Science & Technology; Journal of Cleaner Production; Sustainability) and practical domains (with researchsponsored by such organizations as World Wildlife Fund, US Department of Agriculture, National Science Foundation).
Dr. Maria CASTILLO has been in charge of integrating sustainability into all our courses, programs, and operations. Shehas a PhD. in Management with a specialization in CSR and has been teaching Sustainability for 10 years. She is currentlyleading the upskilling sustainability training for all staff and professors at IESEG.
Victoria Ni, is a master’s student in Opérations & Supply Chain Management-IÉSEG ParisGraduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Management at ESSCA school of business
Klaipeda University
Dr. AgnÄ— ŠneiderienÄ— - Doctor of Social Sciences (Economics), Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, KlaipÄ—da University. She actively participates in scientific conferences and international projects activities and prepares publications on sustainability and economic growth issues. She regularly improves knowledge in the fields of economics, sustainability, and corporate social responsibility; organizes trainings and public lectures on sustainability; and consults on economic analysis. She is a technical editor of the journal “Regional Formation and Development Studies”.
Dr. Daiva Labanauskaite is a Professor at the Department of Economics at the Klaipeda University. Her research interests are related to the service economy and especially the economic evaluation of the development of international tourism. She has been researching international tourism development for more than 25 years. In recent years, she has been working extensively on sustainable tourism and responsible tourism perspectives. During recent years, D. Labanauskaite has actively worked with international sustainable tourism development projects and collaborated in the preparation of tourism development strategies. While participating in sustainable urban development project activities, she analysed and evaluated the economic sustainability of urban sustainable development.
Dr. Rasa ŽILIENĖ, Professor, Scientific Projects Development and Implementation Chief Manager, Chief Researcher at the Department of Economics of Klaipeda University (Lithuania). Main scientific interests are: Sustainable industries development, Industrial symbiosis and Clustering, Consumer behaviour in marketing, Innovations strategies, Circular economy, Blue growth.
University of Granada
Vera Ferrón Vílchez (coordinator) is an Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Business Administration (DBA) 2-Economics &Business School at UGR. She is also the academic coordinador of 4 double degrees: Business Administration+Law,Business Administration+Civil Engineering, Business Administration+Building Construction, and BusinessAdministration+Computer Engineering. She is a collaborator in several postgraduate and professional studies as an externalteacher in different courses related to environmental management. Her research interest is about whether it is (or not) profitable to be an environmentally responsible firm, analyzing those advanced practices of environmental management thatare most interested in adopting by firms from the point of view of improving both economic and environmental performance. Her research follows different approaches: from the perspective of internal process improvement to those aspects related to the improvement of the corporate image through the adoption of environmental practices.
Eulogio Cordón Pozo is Full Professor and Director of the DBA 2. He was the Director of the Research Group “Innovation,Sustainability & Business Development” during 8 years. His main line of research is Innovation Management. His main lineof research continues to be innovation but he also investigates in the area of Green Human Resource Management.
José Manuel de la Torre Ruiz is an Assoc. Prof. in the DBA 2 in the Economics & Business School at UGR. His main line ofresearch is Human Resource Management, but his cross-cutting nature has also led to address issues related toenvironmental management, the internationalization of companies and innovation management.
Rocío Llamas Sánchez is Assoc. Prof. at the Department of Business Organization-2 of the UGR. She is currently Vice deanof Entrepreneurship at the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Melilla. She has publications in international journals such as Journal of Organizational Change Management, African Journal of Business Management, and European Journal of Management and Business Economics.