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Co-editor / Discussant:

Dr Roshni Narendran, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship & Innovation at University of Tasmania in Australia.  Roshni has contributed to diverse disciplines, including pharmaceutical marketing, pedagogical teaching methods, tourism and female entrepreneurship. With a primary research interest in gender and entrepreneurship, Roshni’s doctoral thesis delved into the institutional constraints faced by women.  Recognizing the need for a broader voice, her research extends to entrepreneurs in the transgender and other LGBT+ communities.

Panel members: 

Dr Nadeera Ranabahu a Senior Lecturer at the UC Business School at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Her main research interest is inclusive entrepreneurship. She has ongoing research studies on business start-ups and development among refugees, immigrants, low-income people and women. She also studies social entrepreneurship and social innovations and the intersection between microfinance and sustainability.

Dr Maryam Fozia - an independent Post doctoral researcher residing in the Middle East who obtained her PhD in Business at the Aligarh Muslim University in India in 2019. Her research focuses on assessment of entrepreneurial processes and the aspect of decision-making by entrepreneurs. She is currently engaged in a research project focused on migrant and under-privileged entrepreneurship, family business succession and women entrepreneurship in the Middle East region.

Dr Parisa Nakhaei – who completed her PhD in economics at the University of New South Wales’ School of Business and is an academic at Crawford School of Public Policy in Australia. Her research interests encompass Gender and Development, Women and Entrepreneurship, Women’s Economic Activities and Employment, Gender and Addiction, Informal Economy, International Migration, and Development Studies.

Dr Saskia de Klerk (SFHEA) – is Associate Professor and Discipline Lead for Marketing, International Business, and Tourism at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, and a core researcher at the Australian Centre for Pacific Island Research (ACPIR). Her research focuses on developing entrepreneurial mindsets, creating pathways to entrepreneurship, and fostering sustainable practices that add value to regional ecosystems. Her research is available through Scopus Author ID: 24821208200 and Researcher ID: E-4832-2015.

Dr Luisa De Vita – is an Associate Professor in Economic Sociology at the Department of Social Science and Economics, ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome.  She directs the PhD programme in Applied Social Sciences and has joined several research projects at national and international level. Her current research concerns inequalities, gender policies, diversity management, labour market and working conditions, with a focus on self-employment and women’s entrepreneurship.

Elisa Errico is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Economics at Sapienza University of Rome. Female entrepreneurship and women’s business associations are among her main research interests. Her PhD research project focuses on the green transition of SMEs in Italy, including social impacts and gender inequalities.