ECONOMICS, INNOVATION AND SUSTAINABILITY
Keynote Nicholas A. Ashford
Affiliation MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Short CV is a professor of technology and policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the director of the MIT Technology and Law Program, and a faculty associate in the School of Engineering, the Sloan School of Management, and the Urban Studies. Professor Nicholas A. Ashford teaches courses in Environmental Law, Policy, & Economics; Law, Technology, & Public Policy; and Sustainability, Trade & Environment. Ashford is a faculty associate of the Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development in the School of Engineering; the Institute for Work and Employment Research in the Sloan School of Management; and the Environmental Policy Group in the Urban Studies Department. He holds both a PhD in chemistry and a law degree from the University of Chicago, where he also received graduate education in economics. Ashford’s courses, jointly listed with ESD/Engineering, the Sloan School, and Urban Studies, draw students from all over the Institute. He has supervised graduate theses in the TPP, ESD, and SDM programs.
Ashford is the co-author of two recent textbooks/readers: Technology, Globalization, and Sustainable Development: Transforming the Industrial State (2011, Yale University Press) and Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics: Reclaiming the Environmental Agenda (2008, MIT Press). He has published five additional books and several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals and law reviews.
Ashford was a public member and chairman of the National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety & Health, served on the EPA Science Advisory Board, and was chairman of the Committee on Technology Innovation & Economics of the EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology. Ashford is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former chair of its Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering. He served as an advisor to the United Nations Environment Programme and currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cleaner Production; the Journal of Environmental Technology and Management; the Journal of Environmental Policy and Governance; and Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
INNOVATION, MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY
KeyNote François Vellas
Affiliation University of Toulousse – France
Short CV François VELLAS is Professor of International Tourism Economicsat the University of Toulouse 1 and at Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile, (ENAC). He has a PhD in Economics and is Director of the Master (M2) in international tourism economics. François Vellas has got a large experience of analysing international air transport and tourism globalisation, sustainable and cultural tourism development, economic development, export of tourism servicesand air transport, direct international investments and economic impacts of tourism. He is the author of a dozen books and numerous reports on international economics (including “Le transport aérien”, “Le commerce sud-sud”, and “Echange international et qualification du travail” Economica – Paris), tourism and air transport (including “International tourism: an economic perspective” and “The international marketing of travel and tourism” MacMillan – London with L. Becherel) and on the politics and economy of international tourism “Economie et Politique du Tourisme International” Economica – Paris”.
François Vellas has got a vast experience of collaboration with United Nations and European Union agencies, particularly: WTO (World Tourism Organisation): Published “Tourism, micro finance and poverty reduction” during the year of micro finance (2005) and “The impact of rising oil prices on international tourism (2006), UNCTAD six months sabbatical in Geneva in the International Trade of Basic Goods and Services Division and participation in technical assistance programmes within the framework of commercial negotiations (contributed to the reports “Tourism in the least developed countries” and “Investment in pre-emerging markets”, ICAO, UNESCO, ICC, UNPD, World Bank, and many missions notably technical assistance programmes on sustainable development and on capacity building particular concerning trade and development, the European Union Co-responsibility for the coordination of PHARE programmes on Tourism Education in Romania and in Bulgaria and participation in tourism regional cooperation programmes (Indian Ocean and the Caribbean). He is involved as Managing and Scientific Director for ACTING FOR LIFE, Paris Le Bourget (NGO established by European tourism and air transport firms) and Scientific Director for international cooperation programmes and the university research team (CERTOP- Toulouse and CERTOP Asia – Kuala Lumpur specialised in international cooperation for education, research and air transport, and tourism cooperation in Europe and in South-East Asia).
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM
KeyNote Teresa Heath
Affiliation Nottingham University School, UK
Short CV Lecturer in marketing at the Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham (permanent contract). During this period I have taught: Marketing Theory (for Masters in Marketing), Marketing Services (for UG business degrees), Managing the Marketing Mix (for UG business degrees). And Lecturer Professora Auxiliar) in marketing at the Escola de Economia e Gestão, Universidade do Minho. During this period I taught: Business and Marketing Ethics (for PhD in Marketing and Strategy), Advanced Topics in Marketing/Advanced Marketing (for Masters in Management and Masters in Marketing and Strategic Management), Further Marketing (for Masters in Management); Marketing Management (for Masters in Marketing and Strategic Management); International Marketing (for International Relations and Management degrees); and Marketing (for Economics, International Business, Applied Foreign Languages and Management degrees). Author of many articles of original research in the area.
E-BUSINESS AND DIGITAL NETWORK
Key Note Daniel Martí Pellón
Affiliation University of Vigo – Spain
Short CV Born in Cantabria (1960). Bachelor of Philosophy (University of Navarra 1982). PhD in Information Science (University of La Laguna 1993). Professor Titular de Universidad (University of Vigo 1997). Husband and father of two teenagers. Blogger and twitterer since loomed social networking applications with options to change anything in this world. Member of the Governing Council (2002-2004) and Senate (2002-2009) at the University of Vigo. Dean (2011) and Secretary (1995-1996), Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication. University Professor (1994 -) subjects of communication since the beginning of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication at the University of Vigo – Pontevedra. Departmental Director of Communications Section (1999-2000). Head of research group ICOM CS-1 (2004-2011). Director and participant in national and local projects of research. Among the doctoral thesis presented to the term led to 4 doctors. Director of 8 master to work in 2010 and 2011 courses of Master of Research. He directed over 70 projects to career Degree in Advertising and Public Relations (1998 – 2011). Author of many articles of original research on digital communication (online list of items) and a dozen articles on public relations, communication and education networks (online list of items).
