Conference Patrons

Dr. Bhimaraya Metri

Dr. Bhimaraya Metri

Director , IIM Nagpur

Bhimaraya Metri, Director, IIM Nagpur is a distinguished academician, renowned teacher, researcher and an astute administrator. An outstanding leader of management education, he has performed key leadership roles at many premier management institutes and corporate in his remarkable career. Dr. Metri is the former Director of IIM Tiruchirappalli. Under his dynamic leadership, IIM Tiruchirappalli has catapulted among the league of top business schools in India. He has also contributed immensely as Dean at L& T Institute of Project Management Vadodara, IMI New Delhi, MDI Gurgaon and leading research programmes at BITS Pilani.

Prof. Deborah Hann

Prof. Deborah Hann

Dean, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, UK

Professor Deborah Hann is Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University, and currently serves as Acting Head of School. Her research focuses on workplace dispute resolution and the Real Living Wage as a form of civil regulation. She has worked closely with organisations including Acas, the Labour Relations Agency, Citizens UK, and the Living Wage Foundation. Deborah has published extensively in leading journals such as Industrial and Labour Relations Review, Work, Employment and Society, Human Resource Management Journal, and Economic and Industrial Democracy. She is a member of the Editorial Board of Work, Employment and Society and actively promotes the Living Wage across Cardiff and Wales through her role as a Living Wage Commissioner.