Keynote Speakers

"WOMEN’S VICTIMIZATION IN EMERGENCY CASES FROM THE FRAMEWORK OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"

"FUTURE EXPECTATIONS OF WOMAN IN BUSINESS IN THE AI ERA"

Assoc. Prof. Sezer Bozkus Kahyaoglu graduated from Bosporus University and earned the degree B.Sc. in Management. Sezer had an MA degree in Money Banking and Finance at Sheffield University and Certification in Retail Banking from Manchester Business School, both with a joint scholarship of British Council and Turkish Bankers Association. After finishing her doctoral studies, Sezer earned a Ph.D. degree in Econometrics from Dokuz Eylul University in 2015. Sezer worked in the finance sector in various positions of the head office. Sezer worked in KPMG Risk Consulting Services as Senior Manager. Afterward, Sezer joined Grant Thornton as founding partner of advisory services and worked there in Business Risk Services. Afterward, Dr. Sezer worked in SMM Technology and Risk Consulting as Partner responsible from ERP Risk Consulting. During this period Sezer was a lecturer at Istanbul Bilgi University at Accounting and Auditing Program and Ankara University Internal Control and Internal Audit Program. Sezer is currently Associate Professor at Izmir Bakircay University from 2018 to the present. Her research interests mainly include Applied Econometrics, Time Series Analysis, Financial Markets and Instruments, Energy Markets, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Fraud Accounting, Auditing, Ethics, Coaching, Mentoring, and NLP. Sezer has various refereed articles, books, and research project experiences in her professional field. She was among the 15 leading women selected from the business world within the scope of the “Leading Women of Izmir Project” which was sponsored by the World Bank and organized in cooperation by the Aegean Region Chamber of Industry (EBSO), Izmir Governor's Office, and Metropolitan Municipality.

Assoc.Prof.Mamta Bhatia


"ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES TO PROMOTE WOMEN IN STEM"

Dr. Mamta Bhatia, Associate Professor in Physics at Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, India; holds degrees in M.Phil and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Delhi. She received Fulbright-Nehru Award for Academic and Professional Excellence (2017) and was hosted at Miami Dade College, U.S, where she was engaged with STEM students and developed an online course for creating a workforce in Nanomaterials industry. Dr. Bhatia also received a Fulbright-Nehru award for International Education Administrators' Seminar (2014) and visited several community colleges in the U.S to learn about the fusion of vocational education with a higher education framework. During Ph.D., she published papers on Tritium Breeding Ratio in Lithium and its oxide for its use in Fusion Reactors and received the Young Scientist Award (1987)for this innovative study of materials.

Dr. Mamta  Bhatia has more than 30 years of teaching and administrative experience in colleges of the University of Delhi and officiated as the Principal, AND College, University of Delhi (2005). She served as Officer on Special Duty at Campus of Open Learning, University of Delhi (2007-2014), and worked extensively in association with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) towards building industry-academia linkages. As the Project Coordinator of UKIERI(UK-India Education and Research Initiative)Projects of the British Council, she organized several workshops and exchange visits in collaboration with Scotland Colleges towards designing and implementing skill-based courses on the web designing, gaming and digital literacy for faculty and students (2009-2015).

Dr. Mamta Bhatia has been an Invited Member on Board of  CII National Education Council (2018-2020), CII National Committee on Higher Education (2015-2018), and CII National Committee on Skill development (2016-2017).

Dr. Bhatia has keen interest in women empowerment through STEM and has delivered public lectures at U.S Universities. She has co-chaired sessions, presented papers at International Conferences on topics related to open education, skill development, entrepreneurship, and business models for encouraging women in STEM, etc. 

Prof. (Dr.) Harpreet Kaur

Professor (Law), M.Sc., LL.B., LL.M. (Commercial Laws), LL.D (Company Law),
Manager, Center For Corporate Law And Governance

"CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND WOMEN"

She is a Professor of Law at National Law University, Delhi (NLUD), and involved in teaching Corporate Laws, Securities Regulations, and Anti-trust laws. She is a Fulbright Scholar in Residence and served as Chair Professor of Indian Studies on Rotating Chair established by the Indian Institute of Cultural Affairs at Faculty of Law, Leibniz University, Hannover, Germany from Oct 2015-April 2016. She visited the USA as an International Visitor under the International Visitors Leadership Programme in 2015 for anti-trust laws. She is the director of the Center for Corporate Law and Governance at NLUD. She has authored a textbook on Business and Corporate Laws and co-authored textbooks on Competition Law, Jurisprudence, Interpretation of Statutes, Law of Torts and Labour and Industrial Laws. She is a visiting faculty to the Faculty of Law, University of Bergen, Norway.