Bhabani Shankar Nayak is a political economist and works as Professor of Business Management and Programme Director of Strategic Business and Management at the University for the Creative Arts, UK. His research interests consist of closely interrelated and mutually guiding programmes surrounding political economy of religion, business, and capitalism, along with faith and globalisation, and economic policies. He is the author of Political Economy of Development and Business (2022), Modern Corporate Strategies at Work (2022), China: The Bankable State (2021), Disenchanted India and Beyond: Musings on the Lockdown Alternatives (2020), Hindu Fundamentalism and the Spirit of Global Capitalism in India (2018) and Nationalising Crisis: The Political Economy of Public Policy in India (2007).Philip Powell is Professor of Creative Business and Director of the Business School for the Creative Industries.Philip was previously Executive Dean, Pro Vice-Chancellor (Enterprise and Innovation), and Professor of Management at Birkbeck, University of London and Dean of the Faculty of Business, Law and Politics at the University of Hull. His research has resulted in over 350 published outputs in information systems, management, operations, and higher education management. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Information Systems Journal. He has served on a variety of public bodies concerned with skills development, enterprise and entrepreneurship and currently sits on the Institute for Apprenticeships Business and Management Route Panel.
