Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar is a Professor in Economics at Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, India. In his academic journey of over 24 years, he has obtained M.Phil. & Ph.D. degrees from Jawaharlal Nehru University (India). During the Ph.D. study, he visited Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania in 2000. Thereafter, as a social scientist, he joined the project “Global Democracy Initiatives: The Art of Possible in the Era of Globalization” run by KEPA (Finland) and CSDS (India). With the same organizations, he has also served as Research Associate in the project “South Asian Perspectives on North-South Cooperation and Impact of Foreign Funding on People’s Organization”. In 2011-2015, Dr. Prabhakar served as Senior Lecturer at Universiti Utara Malaysia. He worked with Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea) and served as Assistant Professor at AAU, UoG, DBU, and DTU for seven years (invited by the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia) under the UNDP). Dr. Prabhakar was associated as a Research Assistant with the project of “Evaluation of Rural Technology” (funded by CSIR) at the National Institute of Science Technology and Development Studies (India), and he actively participated in the workshop on Multi-Sectoral Production Networks at IIT (India). In total, he has attended 20+ conferences, workshops, training programs, and retreat programs in Malaysia, Ethiopia, and India for continuous teaching-learning. Dr. Prabhakar served as a member of international committee and publishing committee at the UUM (Malaysia) and reviewed conference papers of the 3rd International Conference on Rural Entrepreneurship (ICORE-15) organized by Hebei University (China) as collaborated with the UUM (Malaysia) and the University of Indonesia in 2015. He has presented several research papers in national & international conferences and seminars (including India-Africa Conference at IIC, New Delhi). Dr. Prabhakar has written two modules for Distance Learning Education in Ethiopia and published 60+ research papers (including ten Scopus-indexed and refereed) in international and national level journals. He has published two books, including the one with Emerald (UK), and one book chapter with IGI Global (USA). He has supervised MPhil and Ph.D. students. Dr. Prabhakar has served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Social Sciences, Guest Editor of IJSS, and currently Associate Editor of IJSS. He has been working as Director of Third World Social Networks (TWSN).
Gurpreet Kaur
is an Assistant Professor, Lovely Professional University. Dr. Gurpreet Kaur is Assistant Professor (faculty) is Lovely Professional University, Punjab. She is author of several trade related papers published in indexed journals.
Vasilii Erokhin is an Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Harbin Engineering University, China. Since 2017, Dr. Erokhin is a researcher at the Center for Russian and Ukrainian Studies (CRUS) and Arctic Blue Economy Research Center (ABERC) Harbin Engineering University, China. In 2018, Dr. Erokhin also joined Key West University (Florida, USA) as an Adjunct Professor in Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, and History of Economic Thought. Dr. Erokhin is an author of over 170 scientific works in the areas of international trade, globalization, sustainable development, food security issues with a focus on emerging markets, developing countries, and economies in transition. His major book titles include Global Perspectives on Trade Integration and Economies in Transition (2016), Establishing Food Security and Alternatives to International Trade in Emerging Economies (2017), and Handbook of Research on International Collaboration, Economic Development, and Sustainability in the Arctic (2018). Dr. Erokhin is a Guest Editor at MDPI Sustainability and MDPI Economies; an Associate Editor at Springer’s Journal of Knowledge Economy; a member of the Editorial Review Board at IGI International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management (IJSEM); an editorial board member at a number of international journals and publications. Dr. Erokhin is a holder of the honorary awards from the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation. He is a holder of Publons Peer Review Award 2018 “Top 1% of Reviewers in the Spheres of Environment and Ecology” for elite contribution to scholarly peer review and editorial pursuits internationally and outstanding commitment to protecting the integrity and accuracy of published research.