Keynote Speaker - Natalia Ozorco R.
The GWO 2025 Conference organizing committee is thrilled to welcome Natalia Ozorco, journalist and documentary filmmaker, winner of two consecutive years of the Simón Bolivar National Journalism Award (2010 and 2011), the most representative of her native Colombia. She has a background in social communication and journalism. Natalia holds a Master in Humanitarian Cooperation and a Master in Political Science, both degrees obtained in Paris, France.
Her career spans 20 years of experience as an international correspondent for radio, press and TV, first in Europe and later in Washington DC.
She has covered numerous international summits (UN, NATO, G8) and has interviewed various world leaders and personalities. In 2011 she became a war correspondent and covered the uprising in Egypt and Libya, North Africa.
In 2012 she devoted herself exclusively to documentary filmmaking and completed her first independent film (script and direction) on the fall of Muammar Gadhafi. This debut feature was co-produced by French TV (France TV), Mexican TV (Once TV) and Colombian TV (RCN CINE).
Between 2013 and 2017, she produced and directed the documentary film ‘El Silencio de los Fusiles’ a Colombian-French co-production (RCN- ARTE France) about the peace process in Colombia signed with the FARC, the oldest guerrilla on the continent. http://www.silenciofusiles.com/
This film was presented in commercial cinemas and awarded in some of the most renowned festivals: Un certain Regard Cannes, Biarritz, San Sebastien, NY Film Festival, Guadalajara Film Festival and many others.
Since 2018 and to date she has been touring Latin America leading and co-presenting Fuerza Latina, the programme of the German public channel DW, which pays tribute to the most inspiring women of the continent.
https://www.dw.com/es/fuerza-latina-mujeres-inspiradoras-de-am%C3%A9rica-latina/program-44829273
More than 250 meetings with women defenders of minorities, human rights, representatives of the world of science, art, LGBT+ activism, environmentalists, among others, have given her the opportunity to immerse herself in the reality and the struggle of women and sexual dissidents who stand out and have an impact on fragile democracies, autocracies and convulsive realities.
Keynote Speaker - Prof. Ajnesh Prasad
The GWO 2025 Conference organizing committee is thrilled to welcome Prof. Ajnesh Prasad, whose research encompasses the areas of entrepreneurship, gender, and diversity in organizations and interpretive methods, topics he addresses from diverse theoretical-critical perspectives. His publications have taken poststructural, postmodern, feminist, postcolonial, neo-Marxist, and psychoanalytical approaches. He is co-chair of the Critical Management Studies division at the Academy of Management.
Dr. Prasad is the Leader of the Research Group (GI) in Leadership and Effective and Efficient Organizations at the Tecnológico de Monterrey Business School. He has published over 50 articles and chapters, which include at least 20 contributions to scientific journals such as Q1, including Academy of Management Learning and Education, Advances in Consumer Research, Business & Society, Critical Perspectives on Accounting, Gender, Work and Organization, Human Relations, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, as well as the Journal of Business Ethics and Critical Perspectives on International Business, for which he has also co-edited special issues. He is also a member of the editorial Human Relations committees and the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. Emerald published his first book.
To date, Dr. Prasad has been the beneficiary of $15,000,000 USD in research funding, including grants and awards from national financial institutions, such as the British Academy (United Kingdom), The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada), and Conacyt (Mexico). At 31, he was admitted as the youngest SNI Conacyt program level II member.
Dr. Prasad wrote much of his doctoral thesis as a graduate researcher at Yale University. His doctoral research was funded by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and several other awards. He has taught MBA and doctoral program courses and supervised research students at the master's and doctorate levels. Before arriving at the EGADE Business School, Dr. Prasad was head teacher at the UNSW Business School (incorporated into the AGSM). He has also held research positions at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University.
Keynote Speaker - Prof. Floya Anthias
The GWO 2025 Conference organizing committee is thrilled to welcome Prof. Floya Anthias, Professor of Sociology, University of East London, Visiting Professor of Sociology at City University, London, and Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Social Justice at Roehampton University.
Her primary research interests are in the areas of social divisions and identities and her life long work has been devoted to trying to understand and theorise these in terms of social boundaries and hierarchies. This has also entailed a concern with social exclusion and inequality and migration, ethnicity, gender and multiculturalism. Her main academic writings reflect these interests. These have been devoted to exploring the connections between different forms of social hierarchy and inequality with a particular concern with the links between gender, race and class (often referred to as intersectionality) as forms of social identity and difference and forms of social stratification. In addition, issues of migration, particularly as they linked to labour market disadvantages and class position have been central to her work.
Her work has also been characterised by an interest in the Southern Mediterranean and she has undertaken a range of research on Cyprus and Cypriot migration and settlement. Recent articles have engaged with narratives of identity, the integration practices of women migrants and with ethnic ties and social capital.
Her books include Woman, Nation, State (co-edited with Nira Yuval Davis, Macmillan, 1989), Racialised Boundaries: race, nation, colour, class and the anti racist struggle (co-authored with Nira Yuval Davis, Routledge 1993), Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Migration: Greek Cypriots in Britain (Avebury Press, 1992), Thinking about the Social and Thinking about Social Divisions (edited, Greenwich University Press 1997), Into the Margins: Migration and Exclusion in Southern Europe, (co-edited, Ashgate 1999), Gender and Migration in Southern Europe: women on the move, (co-edited, Berg, 2000) and Rethinking Antiracism: from Theory to Practice (co-edited, Routledge 2002). We hope Floya will speak about her latest work on translocation belongings inspired by her book Translocational belongings. Intersectional dilemmas and social inequalities published in 2021.
Keynote Speaker - Prof. Elisabeth Kelan
The GWO 2025 Conference organizing committee is thrilled to welcome Elisabeth Kelan, Professor of Leadership and Organisation at Essex Business School, University of Essex, and an expert on the future of work, digitalisation, gender, diversity, and inclusion in organisations. She held a Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship [MRF-2019-069] to explore the future of work, digitalisation, and gender. Her research focuses on women in leadership, men as change agents for gender equality, generations at work, technology in organisations, and diversity, inclusion and belonging. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in leading academic journals such as the British Journal of Management (ABS 4), Human Relations (FT Top 50, ABS 4), the Academy of Management Learning and Education (ABS 4), the Journal of Business Ethics (FT Top 50), and Management Learning (ABS 3). She is also the author of four books. Elisabeth Kelan held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and was the Dahlem International Network Professor for Gender Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Her research has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Economic and Social Research Council and various private sector institutions. She is on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Management, Management Learning, and Gender in Management and edits the Routledge Studies in Gender and Organizations book series. Her research is regularly featured in the media such as the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Telegraph and HR Magazine. The Times featured her as one of the management thinkers to watch. She has won various practitioner and academic awards for her research such as the Academy of Management Gender and Diversity in Organizations Faculty Transnational Research Award 2016 and the award for the Most Influential Leadership Research by the Leadership Awards (2016). She is regularly providing thought-leadership and consulting to businesses and international organisations.
