Guest speakers

Elaine Farndale (Ph.D.) is Professor of Human Resource Management and Director of the School of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University (USA), where she is also Founder and Director of the Center for International Human Resource Studies. Elaine’s research and teaching encompass the broad fields of international human resource management (HRM), strategic HRM, and HRM and performance. She has published widely from her international collaborations in leading journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management, and Human Resource Management Journal, as well as publishing four books. She has also served as Co-Editor-in-Chief for Human Resource Management Journal, Co-Editor for Routledge’s Global HRM Series, Associate Editor for Human Resource Management and International Journal of Human Resource Management, as well as serving on several other editorial boards. She completed her Ph.D. at Cranfield School of Management (UK) and worked previously as an HR specialist for several years.

Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elaine_Farndale

Chris Brewster is Professor of International Human Resource Management at Henley Business School, University of Reading, in the UK. He had substantial experience as a practitioner and gained his doctorate from the LSE before becoming an academic. He researches in the field of international and comparative HRM; and has published more than twenty five books and well over two hundred articles. He has taught in many countries around the world. In 2002,

Chris was awarded the Georges Petitpas Memorial Award by the practitioner body, the World Federation of Personnel Management Associations, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to international human resource management. He has also been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Vaasa, Finland.

Research Gate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Chris_Brewster