Dr. Giang NT Nguyen (PhD, AFHEA) is a management scholar and educator with ten years of international teaching experience across Vietnam, the UK, and Australia. She currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Economics and Finance and as a Visiting Lecturer at RMIT University Vietnam, where she teaches logistics, supply chain management, business ethics, and sustainability. Giang is a dedicated lecturer passionate about shaping the next generation of learners through engaging, research-informed teaching. With a commitment to academic excellence and continuous professional growth, Giang brings both depth of knowledge and a genuine enthusiasm for the classroom. Always exploring new pedagogical approaches and staying current in the field, Giang strives to create learning environments where students are challenged, supported, and inspired to reach their full potential. Giang’s research expertise spans responsible leadership, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, and supply chain social responsibility, with a particular emphasis on developing countries. Her work has been published in leading Q1 and Q2 journals, including Production Planning & Control, Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and Society and Business Review, among others. She has presented at major international conferences, including the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, ANZAM, and the Academy of International Business Oceania Symposium. Beyond academia, Giang brings real-world consultancy experience, having served as an apparel sector consultant for USAID on supply chain traceability and labour rights in Vietnam’s garment industry. She has secured competitive research grants, including the Hinrich Foundation Research Grant, and has led interdisciplinary projects examining the intersection of sustainability, gender, and global supply chains. A recipient of the Vice-Chancellor’s HDR Training Scholarship at the University of Newcastle and the Transform Together Scholarship at Sheffield Hallam University, Giang is a member of the Academy of Management, the Academy of International Business, and ANZAM.

 

Dr Heidi Wechtler, Scholar in Management, University of Newcastle, Australia. 

She holds a PhD in International HRM from Macquarie University and brings to this work more than a decade of research on leadership, workers in global contexts, and the systems that shape how people experience work. Her leadership research spans both its enabling and its darker dimensions: from how trust and high-performance practices drive innovation and voice, to how toxic leadership distributes psychosocial harm unevenly across organisations. Her work has appeared in outlets including Human Relations, Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management, and she ranks in the top 4% of leadership researchers globally (ScholarGPS).