Dennis Pepple - Financial and Managerial Aspects in Human Resource Management

Ms Olubukola Adegbite is a Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Birmingham Campus. She has a BSc (Hons) in Accounting from Ado-Ekiti University, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria. She also holds an MSc in Finance from Swansea University, Wales, United Kingdom. She has several industry experiences in Accounting and Finance that span over 16 years both in Nigeria (West Africa) and the United Kingdom. Some of the industries/sectors she had worked include hospitality, public sector accounting, private consulting and in higher education. Her areas of interests are taxation, financial management and public and private sectors governance.

Dr Oluwaseun (Olu) Adegbite is a Programme Director and Lecturer in Business Management at University of Wales Trinity Saint David Birmingham Campus and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham. He received his PhD from School of Management, Swansea University, and holds MBA degree also from Swansea University. He is a Fellow of Chartered Management Institute and Member of Chartered Institute of Marketing. Prior to transiting into academia, he had worked in both public and private sectors for over 15 years. Some of his works are under peered reviews and he serves as a reviewer to some top journals, for example, Journal of Product Innovation Management.

Dr Nkem Adeleye is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Newman University. She has an LLB (Hons.), an LLM (International Human Rights) and for her PhD thesis she conducted a comparative study on the factors responsible for the prevalence of the death row phenomenon in the USA and Japan. Nkem has years of experience as a lecturer and researcher in the higher education sector with expertise in teaching a wide range of core and optional law modules. She has previously worked at the Southern Centre for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia where she worked on capital penalty and prisoner class action cases. Her research interests include the international human rights, death row phenomenon, prisoners' rights, modern slavery, employment law and tort law. She has presented papers nationally and internationally including the United Nations General Assembly in Geneva. Nkem has sat as a Conference Chair for the Applied Research International Conference (ARICON) group at Oxford University and Dubai. Nkem is a member of the Society of Legal Scholars, the Birmingham law Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Dr Chibuzo Amadi is a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at South Wales Business School, University of South Wales in the United Kingdom. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the United Kingdom. This recognition is the outcome of his several years of teaching excellence in different higher education institutions in the United Kingdom (such as Manchester Metropolitan University, Cardiff University and currently University of South Wales). He obtained a PhD in the area of Finance and International Business from Manchester Metropolitan University, studying how financial development stimulates foreign direct investment and economic growth in Nigeria. His research interests and expertise are in the areas of foreign direct investment, international trade/business, financial sector development, economic growth and development, economic policy, with a focus on African Economies.