Prof. Dr. Yves De Rongé
Professor and Researcher
Prof. Dr. De Rongé is a full professor (Professeur ordinaire) at Louvain School of Management of UCLouvain in charge of teaching and research in Accounting, management Control, Sustainability reporting and Regenerative Economics and was a former dean of lAG-Louvain School of Management. He is also a part-time professor at Université Saint Louis, Bruxelles, and a visiting professor in various Belgian and foreign universities e.g. KUL, Université de Liège, Laval, IMI Kiev, St Petersbourg, Strasbourg, Lille, EDHEC, SKEMA, etc. He has been a member of the Editorial Management Committee of Comptabilité Contrôle Audit and Reading Committee of Finance Contrôle et Stratégie, Society and Business review, editorial director of Comptabilité, Contrôle et Finance Séries with De Boeck Editors, financial consultant, and member of board of directors.
Dr. Petchprakai Sirilertsuwan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr. Sirilertsuwan has multidisciplinary, multicultural educational and professional background. She was a business owner, consultant, and social startup entrepreneur. She has over a decade of experience in business development and operations including sourcing, international trade, and wholesaling and retailing through both brick-and-mortar and online stores. She was a consultant to enterprises in manufacturing and purchasing strategies, franchising feasibility analysis, setting-up point-of-sale and inventory systems, and digital transformation. Since 2016, she has conducted research to support sustainable supply chains through proximity manufacturing decisions, sustainable multi-tier supply network design, circular economy business models, as well as sustainability factors and performance measurement. During 2018-2022, she has published four peer-reviewed journal articles and one book chapter. She received a full scholarship for her bachelor study and First-Class Honors degree in Communications Engineering from Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT), Thammasat University, Thailand. She received Erasmus Mundus scholarships from the European Commission to pursue her master and PhD studies. She received MSc degrees in Industrial Management from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. She pursued her PhD studies and research in the Sustainable Management and Design for Textiles program at the University of Boras, Sweden, the University of Lille and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textile, France, and Soochow University, China. Membership: the Academy of Management, the European Operations and Management Association (EurOMA), and the Nordic logistics research network (NOFOMA)
Josep Oriol Izquierdo Montfort
Researcher and PhD Candidate
After a Bachelor in Business Administration at ESADE (2012) and a Master of Science in International Management at the same university (2013); Josep Oriol became an entrepreneur and founded a start-up to sell online organic and healthy food from small local producers. After three years of entrepreneurial experience, Josep Oriol joined a strategy consultancy firm specialized on economic development at local, regional and national level. For over 5 years, he leaded projects on traditional industries (such as food, automotive, logistics…) and on more innovative approaches such as circular economy, entertainment, and electric driving among others. He worked mainly in Catalonia, Spain and Andorra, but he also participated in international proposals and projects in countries such as Tunisia, Peru, Germany, Luxembourg and France. Currently, he is working as a researcher at LouRIM while doing his PhD in Management Sciences. Specifically, he is a member of the Chair of Circular and Regenerative Economy and his thesis aims to promote the implementation of Circular Economy strategies in the private sector.