Kiran Sood is a professor at Chitkara Business School; Chitkara University, India. She earned her PhD in commerce with a concentration on product portfolio performance of general insurance companies in 2017 from Panjabi University, Patiala, India. Her research mainly focuses on regulations, finance, insurance management and risk management. She has edited many books with various international publishers such as emerald, CRC, Taylors & Francis, AAP, WILEY Scrivener, IET, Rivers Publishers, and IEEE.

Simon Grima is the deputy dean of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accountancy, and head of the Department of Insurance and Risk Management at the University of Malta. Simon is also a professor at the University of Latvia, Faculty of Business, Management and Economics and a visiting Professor at UNICATT Milan. He has been awarded outstanding reviewer for Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance in the 2017 and 2022 Emerald Literati Awards.

Bharat S. Rawal is a professor in cybersecurity at Benedict College, USA. His research focuses on network security, cloud computing and security, blockchain, AI/ML, quantum computing, and the development of next-generation cyber defense and operation technologies. He is a member of IET, IEEE, ACM, and AMA. He has published two books, hundreds of research articles in conference and journal publications, and holds two US patents.

Balamurugan Balusamy is associate dean of student engagement at Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, India. His research s focuses on Blockchain and data sciences and engineering education. He has published over 200 plus high impact factor papers and contributed to 80 edited and authored books. He has given over 195 talks at international events and symposium. He serves in the advisory committee for several start-ups and forums and does consultancy work for industry on Industrial IOT.

Ercan Özen is professor of finance and banking in the Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Uşak, Türkiye (Turkey). He is chair of the International Applied Social Sciences Congress (C-iasoS). He is also a certificated accountant, member of the Agean Finance Association and member of TEMA (Turkey Combating Soil Erosion, for Reforestation and the Protection of Natural Resources Foundation).

Gerald Goh Guan Gan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business, Director of Strategy & Quality Assurance and a member of the Centre of e-Services, Entrepreneurship and Marketing in the Faculty of Business at Multimedia University, Malaysia. His research interests cover the fields of knowledge management, information systems, environmental sustainability, business management and mass communication. He is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (UK) and the Malaysian Institute of Management.