Dr. Dian Damayanti is a Head of the Global Division of International Education and researcher at the Ilomata Foundation and the Institute of Social Sciences and Management STIAMI at Dki Jakarta, Indonesia. She has been awarded many Certificates of Appreciations for her outstanding accomplishments in various programs and positions. She is also a valued scholar member of the editorial board/review committee/ 38th IBIMA Conference: 3-4 November 2021, Seville, Spain, expert panel of several research journals and conferences, World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology Economy and management engineering and EAI publisher.

Dr. Shikha Bhardwaj holds a Ph.D. in Management, M.Sc. in Industrial Psychology, and PGDM in HR. She has more than 15 years of experience in research, teaching, training, and consultancy in the area of Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources. She is a certified Psychometric Trainer, Train the Trainer Expert, and Entrepreneur Educator. She has contributed significantly in several publications in national and international journals of repute. She was awarded the prestigious ‘Chief of Army Staff Commendation Card (COAS)’ by GOC-in-C Western Command and recognized as ‘Accredited Management Teacher (AMT)’ by AIMA in the field of Human Resources. Her interests majorly include interdisciplinary research in cross-cultural sensitivities, work dynamics issues, entrepreneurial behaviours, entrepreneurial attitude, EI, contemporary HR practices, etc. She handled several trainings on early career, mid-career, capacity building, and Leadership programmes for Public Sector Undertakings (PSU). She has been on the panel of QCFI, Women Entrepreneurship Council Member, and Women Innovation Entrepreneur Foundation.

Masahiro is a visiting scholar at Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at University of Cambridge and also a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He is a professor at College of Science and Engineering at Aoyama Gakuin University in Japan.

Masahiro’s research so far has been the application of cognitive linguistics in foreign language teaching. The primary way of the application is associated with spatial concept projection, through which learners understand the target concepts in terms of the embodied cognition utilizing spatial concepts. His current research interests are focused on analyzing the spatial concept-oriented metaphor approach from the perspectives of brain neural basis to confirm whether it is a neuroscientifically proven approach to improving learners’ L2 language proficiency.

Masahiro completed his Ed.M.at Harvard University, his Ed.D. at Temple University in the USA, his first Ph.D. at the University of Auckland in New Zealand and his second Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in Japan.

Prachi Behrani is a Ph.D. Scholar in the department of English, Amity Institute of English Studies and Research, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her primary research interest lies in the role of Humour, especially in the African American traditions. She is currently teaching as a guest faculty in Delhi University’s NCWEB. Prachi is a published poet

Olga Kissova is well-experienced English and Russian language university teacher at University Zilina, Slovakia currently studying as a PHD student in DTI University, Slovakia. Working experience: Business English lecturer, interpreter in international business conferences Cyprus, Dublin. Erasmus+ Klaipeda University (2019 Lithuania), Universidad Granada (2020 Spain), La Laguna Universidad Tenerife, Canary Island (Spain 2020) University of Business and Law Prague (2021 online Czech Republic).

Suanmuanlian Tonsing is a doctoral student, Junior Research Fellow (JRF), at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), India. His research interests include the anthropology of the state, digital anthropology, media and communications, cultural studies, sociology of body, and ethnicity. His forthcoming paper will appear in the reputed journal Discourse and Communications. Some of his other works also feature in RePLITO, and Doing Sociology.