8th Conference Presidents

Prof.Dr.Nauman Farooqi

Dr. M. Nauman Farooqi is the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Professor of Finance & Entrepreneurship at Mount Allison University in Canada.  Dr. Farooqi received his MBA and PhD. (major finance) from the John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University, USA and a second MBA degree from Quaid-e-Azam University in Pakistan.  He was awarded the Paul Pare Excellence Award in recognition of excellence in both teaching and research at Mount Allison University. 

Dr. Farooqi has taught extensively at the MBA, Executive MBA, and BBA/BCom levels and conducted training, workshops and seminars in Canada, United States, Pakistan, South Asia and the Middle East. He has presented papers at national and international conferences and been recognized as an expert in Canada on Hawala (an informal money transfer system).  He has been invited as keynote speaker at international conferences, interviewed by print and electronic media and consulted by law firms and law enforcement agencies on the topic of Hawala.  For five years, he wrote a monthly article on entrepreneurship for the Globe & Mail (Canada’s largest circulation newspaper). His research interests are in the areas of Hawala and experiential learning pedagogy.  Over the last seventeen years he has successfully worked on securing research grants totaling more than one million Canadian Dollars.

Dr. Farooqi is active in educational and corporate consulting and has worked with a number of national and international universities, corporations and non-profits including the United Nations Development Program and The World Bank.

Prof.Dr.Kıymet Çalıyurt

Book Series Editor
"Accounting, Finance, Sustainability, Governance and Fraud: Theory and Application", Springer
 http://www.springer.com/series/13615

"Women and Sustainable Business", Gower Publishing, United Kingdom
https://www.routledge.com/Women-and-Sustainable-Business/book-series/WOMENANDSUST

Partner - Herme Consulting

She has graduated from Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Marmara University, Istanbul in 1990. Her Master (in 1996) and Ph.D. degree (in 2002) are in the field of Accounting and Finance from the Social Graduate School, Marmara University.  She has studied with Prof.Dr.David Crowther in postdocrorate study in London Metropolitan University on social responsibility in accounting. Her research interests are in accounting, auditing, fraud, social responsibility, corporate governance, finance, business ethics with speacial interest in NGOs and aviation management. 

She is the founder of;

• International Group on Governance, Fraud, Ethics and Social Responsibility (IGonGFE&SR) and the president of the National-International-Students’  Conference Series on Governance, Fraud, Ethics and Social Responsibility (IConGFE&SR).
• International Women and Business Group. This group organises International Women and Business Conference annually.