IR Research Guest Professor/Chief Advisor, GLOBE Cross-Cul, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Adebowale Akande (PhD) (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6521-3272) is one of the world’s top contributors and cross-cultural researchers for research publications with a scholar google citation of over 32,120 and over 200 refereed articles/chapters. He has held faculty appointments at several international universities. In 1998 he was appointed the inaugural first Black Chair in Behavior Science in South Africa. Among multiple awards conferred, Akande received the Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, 1992; IUPSYS International Award, 1996; and Frank Andrew Award, University of Michigan, in 1996; ISPA Award, 2000; Taiwan Government International Scholar Fellowship 2005;, Nippon Foundation of Japan Fellowship, 2008; Fellow Schloss Leopoldskron, Austria 2008; Certificate of Honor, Indian IPM Institute, 2008, AME Harvard Grant, 2016; AAGT-EAGT Award, 2018.