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Dr Joseph Ikechukwu Uduji, Associate Professor, holds PhD (Marketing), PhD (Public Administration), MSc (Marketing), MSc (Public Relations), MBA (Business Administration) and MPA (Public Administration) and is currently the Head, Department of Marketing, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Whilst he lectures business and development courses at the University of Nigeria, he is also a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Cameroon, Bamenda. His current research interests include the impact assessment of multinationals CSR in host communities of developing countries.

Mr Elda Nduka Okolo-Obasi holds a BSc (Agricultural Economics) and MSc (Development Studies) from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Enugu Campuses. He is a doctoral student and research fellow at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Nigeria. His current research interests include economic analysis of multinationals CSR impact in host communities of developing countries.

Prof. Simplice Asongu holds a PhD from Oxford Brookes University and is currently the Lead Economist and Director of the African Governance and Development Institute (Yaoundé, Cameroon); the Lead Economist and Director of the European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (Liège, Belgium) and Lead Economist and Co-director of “Centre de Recherche pour le Développement Economique” (Bangui, Central African Republic). He is also a: Senior Research Fellow at the Africa Growth Institute (Cape Town, South Africa); PhD Supervisor at Covenant University (Ota, Nigeria), the University of Ghana (Accra, Ghana); Antioch University (Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Midwest, New England, Seattle, USA) and Midlands State University (Gweru, Zimbabwe); DBA Supervisor at Management College of Southern Africa (Durban, South Africa) and Research Associate at the Research Network Africa (Gaborone, Botswana), University of South Africa (Pretoria, South Africa), University of Buea (Buea, Cameroon) and Oxford Brookes University (Oxford, UK). He is also an Associate Editor in some journals including the Journal of Economic Surveys, the Journal of African Business, the Emerging Markets Finance and Trade and the African Journal of Economic and Management Studies.