John A. Parnell, Ph.D. – Organizational Crisis Management: Trends and Challenges in a Global Environment
John A. Parnell is a Professor of Management and Alumni Eminent Scholar of Business at the University of North Alabama. He has authored over 300 articles in strategic management and related disciplines, and two current textbooks, Strategic Management: Theory and Practice, and Strategic Crisis Management. Dr. Parnell earned the BSBA, MBA, and MA degrees from East Carolina University, the Ed.D. degree from Campbell University, and the Ph.D. degree in Business Administration from The University of Memphis. He has lectured in many countries, including China, Mexico, Romania, Lithuania, Peru, and Egypt. Dr. Parnell’s current research focuses on issues related to competitive business strategies, nonmarket strategy, crisis management and ethics.
Dr. Kenneth J. Barnes, FRSA – Can Capitalism Be Redeemed? Reimagining the current economic system
Dr. Kenneth J. Barnes, FRSA is the Mockler-Phillips Professor of Business Ethics at Gordon-Conwell, Director of the Mockler Center for Faith and Ethics in the Public Square, and Tutor in Theology and Religious Studies at Oxford University (Department of Continuing Education). Professor Barnes is not a typical “career academic”, having previously spent many years as a senior international executive, working for multi-billion-dollar companies on six continents.
In 2007 Barnes began serving as a corporate chaplain and Tutor at the University of Oxford (O.U.D.C.E. / O.U.S.S.E.). In 2012 he was invited by Ridley Theological College, Melbourne (Australia) to become Inaugural Dean of the Marketplace Institute, where he worked with scholars and practitioners from around the world in a quest to “bridge the Sunday / Monday divide”.
In 2013 Dr. Barnes accepted a Visiting Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Religion and Culture (Regent’s Park College, Oxford) and became Associate Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Initiative. In 2014 he was named a Fellow of the European Institute for Spirituality and Economics (SPES) and became a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).
In 2015 Dr. Barnes became a Tutor at the prestigious Saïd Business School (University of Oxford), as part of their Global Opportunities and Threats program, and in 2016 was unanimously elected to his current chair at his alma mater, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
In 2018, Dr. Barnes became a Member of the Association of Christian Economists, and in 2020, joined the Journal of Ethics in Entrepreneurship and Technology (Emerald Publishing) as an Editorial Advisor. Professor Barnes’s main areas of research and teaching are the intersections of theology and economics, faith at work, apologetics, and theology in the public square.
Alessio Menegazzo -Reinventing Energy Companies: Leading Change in the Energy Transition
Alessio Menegazzo is the CEO & Country Manager of the PPC group of companies in Romania. Previously, he fulfilled the role of Head of Sustainability and Institutional Affairs for Enel in Romania, the energy group that he had joined in 2009.
He is a board member of the Romanian Utilities Association and is also involved with various NGOs in Romania.
He graduated from the University of Genoa with a degree in International and Diplomatic Sciences, with a specialization in developing countries. His hobbies include spending time with his dog, practicing Brazilian jiu-jitsu and cooking.