Keynote speakers

IIBC 2027 welcomes two keynote speakers whose work spans International Business, corporate governance, law, institutions and the changing architecture of global business.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. Igor Filatotchev

King’s Business School · King’s College London

Igor Filatotchev is Professor of Corporate Governance and Strategy at King’s Business School. His research examines how corporate governance shapes internationalisation strategy, entrepreneurship and strategic decision-making, including the resource and strategy roles of governance, digital transformation and governance development in entrepreneurial firms and IPOs.

He has published extensively in leading journals including Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies and Journal of Business Venturing. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and the British Academy of Management.

Keynote title and session time · forthcoming

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Prof. Chizu Nakajima

London Metropolitan University

Across Borders, Across Generations: Legal Institutions and the New Corporate Climate Liability

Chizu Nakajima is Professor Emeritus in Corporate Law and Governance and former Head of the Business and Law Department at London Metropolitan University. She continues to supervise research projects at the Universities of Cambridge and London, teaches international cohorts at various graduate schools, and engages in sustainability-related research and teaching through a legal and regulatory lens as a visiting professor at Osaka University.

Her work spans corporate law and governance, sustainability and human rights, financial regulation, and economic crime prevention, from an international comparative perspective. She has long co-directed the Cambridge International Symposium on Economic Crime and chairs the British Japanese Law Association.

Session time · forthcoming