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Preetika Joshi recently completed her PhD in International Tax at Schulich under the supervision of Associate Professor Amin Mawani. After graduating, she interviewed at various universities in the US, Europe and Canada before joining Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Montreal. The main paper from her dissertation has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research. Research from her 3rd year summer paper was published in Contemporary Accounting Research while she was still in her PhD program. Both these journals are in the Top-5 peer-reviewed academic outlets in Accounting. “This has been the best placement and the best journal publication output in our Accounting Area’s 17-year PhD history,” said Professor Mawani. Joshi’s dissertation examined the economic consequences of recently adopted measures to increase global tax transparency on corporate taxpaying. “I believe that my research can help shape the tax policy of the future. I aim to extend understanding of how taxation can impact the capital market, management incentives and compensation, corporate disclosures, innovation, investment, and payout strategies,” said Joshi. In addition to the normal stipends received by all Schulich PhD students, Joshi was awarded the PhD Entrance Fellowship during her first year, followed by Ontario Graduate Scholarships over two years, as well as the prestigious Provost Dissertation Scholarship in her final year. Joshi also received funding from CPA Ontario throughout her doctoral studies. “My supervisor, Dr. Mawani, provided me invaluable guidance while giving me the freedom to pursue a topic that interests me,” confided Joshi. “The PhD program at Schulich provided me an excellent foundation in research. I couldn’t have picked a better place to pursue my PhD.”

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Dr. Zulnaidi Yaacob is Chairperson of Management Section, School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM),

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David J. Teece is an economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property. Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received eight honorary doctorates

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Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the Autonomous University of Lisbon until 2020. Lecturer/researcher for the Maghreb and Middle East region, CEI-IUL, ISCTE-IUL, INDEG-IUL, IPPS-ISCTE, from 2014-2018. Coordinator of the Public Library of the Middle East and North Africa and all associated programming: lecture series, courses, economic forums. Coordinator and director of the CASA ÁRABE project, ISCTE-IUL, dedicated to the study, research, and dissemination of information about North African and Middle Eastern countries, with the following activities: Cultural and Economic Weeks, Conference Cycles, Exhibitions on politics, culture, and economics in North African and Middle Eastern countries, Literature and Politics courses dedicated to this region, 2014-2018. She holds a PhD in History and Culture of the Ancient Middle East from FCSH-UNL, a Master's degree in Pre-Classical Societies, Cultures and Civilizations from FL-UL, with internships at UCLA, the University of Basel and the American University in Cairo, and has received research grants from FCT, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD. Author of books, book chapters and scientific articles with DOI , highlights include From Spring to the Arab Winter , Temas e Debates, Círculo de Leitores, 2013, and also Internationalization of the Portuguese Economy , Temas e Debates, Círculo de Leitores, 2017.