Ted Baker leads entrepreneurship efforts at Rutgers Business School – Newark & New Brunswick. He spent much of the first half of his adult life building a variety of technology-rich entrepreneurial ventures. During his subsequent academic career, he has helped to build two leading programs in technology entrepreneurship and commercialization (University of Wisconsin-Madison and NC State University). 

He has studied entrepreneurship under conditions of resource constraint and adversity (for example in the informal settlements around Cape Town, South Africa, in the textile industry in the American South and Northeast), focusing in particular on bricolage and improvisation as constructs useful for understanding resourceful behavior. 

His current work on Founder Identity Theory (FIT) explores the processes through which entrepreneurship sometimes allows people to pursue their goals and become who they want to be despite common problems of resource constraint and adversity. His research has been published in leading academic management and entrepreneurship journals, such as Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

Jonathan Doh is Associate Dean of Research, Co-Faculty Director of the Moran Center for Global Leadership, Rammrath Chair in International Business and Professor of Management & Operations, at the Villanova University School of Business. Doh’s research is at the intersection of international business, strategic management, and corporate responsibility and sustainability. He has published more than 85 refereed articles, 11 books, more than two dozen case studies, and presented more than 100 papers at refereed conferences. His publications have appeared in journals such as Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, and Strategic Management Journal, among others. His most recent books are Aligning for Advantage: Competitive Strategies for the Political and Social Arenas, and International Management: Culture, Strategy and Behavior, the best-selling international management text now in its tenth edition.

Athol Williams is an experienced Corporate Strategy Advisor, having served as a Partner at Bain & Company and Strategy Director for Old Mutual.  His academic interests lie at the intersection of moral philosophy, business and public policy, and translates into research in the traditional areas of corporate responsibility, business ethics and social justice.  He is also a published and well-known poet and social philosopher.  

Namhla Mniki-Mangoliso is a global development strategist leading African Monitor, an entity working to eradicate poverty, to create economic opportunities, and to empower African citizens to drive the achievement of sustainable development in Africa.

Ms. Mniki-Mangaliso specialises in citizen-centric approaches to development that promote accountable leadership and good governance.  Her latest work focusses on increasing knowledge of, and building capacity for co-creation and collaboration across sectors to implement the SDGs. She has a strong belief that a new paradigm of development delivery can benefit the world, focusing on innovation, collaboration, multi-sectoralism, co-creation, and broad participation.  She is a Patron for the Africa Youth SDGs Summit, a Global Peer Review Expert for the German Sustainability Strategy, and a member of the expert group for the Africa Progress Group,

Namhla is also a leadership strategist, supporting emerging leaders in Africa to leverage their personal power, values and skills to transform their work environments, their communities and Africa.  Through her social enterprise KB Media & Communications, she runs value-based leadership coaching programmes, as well as high-impact development campaigns across Africa, including the BigSisAfrica programme.