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Before assigning as Provincial & Manager of Sacred Heart Province, he was the Faculty of Theology at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Bangalore. He served there as the Registrar and was the Director of the Centre for Study and Research on St Chavara. He was also a member of Academic Council of Christ, deemed to be University and a member of the Permanent Advisory Council of Dharmaram College since 2011. Besides the Ecclesiastical degrees in Philosophy and Theology, Fr Benny is a graduate in English Literature. He had his higher studies in Sacred Theology from Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome with Specialization in Biblical Studies. Apart from teaching, Fr Benny is engaged in the formation of the students to the priesthood as their animator and master in Dharmaram College. Fr Benny has got language proficiencies in a number of languages including Greek, Hebrew, Italian and German languages. He has authored a good number of articles in scholarly journals both in English and Malayalam. As a columnist, poet and lyricist, he regularly contributes to writing and publications. His areas of specialization include Pauline Literature and Theology.

Prof. Fr. Saju M.D., Ph.D. is the Principal and Professor at the Department of Social Work, Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous), Cochin, Kerala, and an approved research guide under Mahatma Gandhi University. He is honorary principal fellowship at the University of Melbourne, Australia (2022 to present), and serves as Honorary Professor at the University of Edinburgh (2024–present), UK. He serves as the vice-president of International Consortium of Social Development-(ICSD).With over 20 years of teaching and research experience, Prof. Dr. (Fr.) Saju M.D has more than 50 publications in high-impact journals. He has led multiple funded projects, including as PI of the UKIERI partnership with York University, UK, and PI of the ICSSR IMPRESS and SPARC projects. He also headed the award-winning REaCH project, recognized with the Kerala State e-Governance Special Jury Award (2022).Prof. Dr. (Fr.) Saju M. D serves is the consultant for the Sea Wise Workplace Mental Health Initiative (Cochin Shipyard), SMILES (Federal Bank) and Director of the LIFE–Happiness and Wellbeing Centre. His research spans public health, mental health, disability, suicide, dementia, and social work education. His career reflects a strong commitment to academic leadership, international collaborations, and innovative community - based interventions.

Dr. Binoy Joseph has extensive expertise in the areas of Employee Resourcing, Performance Management, Reward Management and HR Accounting and Auditing and his core research interest lies in HRM Innovations. He has had professional experience in the hospitality industry. He has been a Visiting International Scholar at Western Michigan University, USA, and was also engaged in research on Employee Stock Option Plan and Corporate Performance. He has received his doctoral degree from Cochin University of Science and Technology in the topic "Innovative Human Resource Practices and HR Outcomes in Software Firms. He has received the prestigious AUDI Professorship 2013 Fellowship. He made a presentation in Audi Company in Ingolstadt Germany on 'People Management Challenges for German Managers in India'. He also took a course ' International Human Resource Management' for the students in Catholic University, Ingolstadt, Germany.

An engineering graduate with an MBA, he completed FDP from IIM-A, and ESP from Catholic University Lille, France and completed his doctoral research in Neuromarketing. With more than twenty years of experience in value-based marketing and youth ministry, he has been a visiting international scholar at Padua Italy; Vives University, Belgium; Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; Western Michigan University, USA; Nazareth College, Maryland, USA; and Pontifical Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador.

A post graduate in Social Work with specialization in medical and psychiatric social work, he holds MPhil in Social Work. He is currently pursuing his doctoral research in the area of psycho-social development of children. He has two years of pastoral work experience in the Archdiocese of Toronto, Canada. He has been a visiting scholar in Vives University, Belgium, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany and Lille University, France. He has more than nine years of experience in professional social work, academics and administration.

He holds Two Master degrees in philosophy and MBA HR. He has M.Phil in Human resource management from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. He cleared UGC -NET exam.

Professor Kishore holds a Ph.D from Florida State University and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Previously, he held academic positions in several leading British universities, including full professorial appointments at the Bradford University School of Management and the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He has also served as the Dean of the ASB. His research focus is on consumer knowledge, social networks and retailing. His papers have been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Research Policy, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, British Journal of Management, Thinking and Reasoning, Journal of Business Research, etc. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Research & Industrial Marketing Management. His research has attracted funding from the British Academy. He has edited special issues of journals, chaired several conference tracks and given keynote/plenary speeches at international conferences. Prior to his academic career, Kishore served in the industry and has been a senior project manager with TNS India and the Market Analyst at Arvind Brands Limited. In 2008, Professor Kishore was awarded the Brand Leadership Award at the Asia Brand Congress 2008, in recognition of contributions to the marketing profession. In 2019, Professor Kishore was awarded the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award, in recognition of contributions to academia.Professor Kishore currently serves a Visiting Professor at the University of Aberdeen Business School, University of Aberdeen, UK. He also serves as a member of the ETS Business School Advisory Council (India), an Advisory Board Member of the Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability, University of Aberdeen, UK and as an assessor of the Australian Research Council.