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Dr Vasim Akram is Assistant Professor- Department of Economics, Jamia Millia Islamia (A Central University), New Delhi, India. Dr Akram is an economist with micro, Econometrics and industrial economics expertise. In addition, he is a specialist in frontier modeling, panel data and time series analytics. He has more than five years of teaching and professional research experience in economics and development areas. He has published more than seven research papers in reputed journals and presented several papers at national and international conferences and seminars. He is also a permanent member of the Indian Economics Association (IEA).

Dr Hussein Al-Zyoud is Economist with expertise in the area of international economics. Using a combination of quantitative and qualitative approaches, he employs combinations of marginal productivity theory, human capital and normative theories of equity in order to undertake his research.

Dr Al-Zyoud has published his research on a range of social topics of particular relevance to Canada, including income equality and the gender wage gap. He has also contributed to leading conferences, including the National Business and Economics Society and the International Academy of African Business and Development.

Dr Asheref Illiyan has more than 19 years of teaching and research experience at Jamia University. He has published more than 30 research papers in reputed national and international journals. Recently he published a research paper on “Technical Efficiency and Input Driven Growth in Indian Engineering Goods Industry during Post Reform Period: Stochastic Frontier Approach” published by Emerald Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, June 2021. He has to his credit three co-authored books. He also has presented several papers at national and international conferences/seminars and symposia.

Fathi Elloumi is Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting at Athabasca University. His research focuses on corporate governance and covers all aspects of effective governance practices. He is also interested in online learning research's strategic and managerial aspects from two perspectives. The first perspective deals with the strategic decisions of online learning, trying to use the value chain, balanced scorecard and performance dashboard frameworks to optimize online learning decision initiatives and tie them to organizational vision. The second perspective deals with the operational aspects of online learning and mainly focuses on the internal processes of the online learning institution. Subjects such as strategic costing, value chain analysis, process re-engineering, activity-based management, continuous improvement, value engineering and quality control are the focus of his research program related to online learning.