Editorial Board

Dr. Prasad Siba Borah, Ph.D., currently serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Management at Jiangsu University, China. In pursuit of academic excellence, Dr. Borah has published several scientific papers in top-tier academic journals, including SSCI/SCIE-indexed Q1 and A* level journals such as Business Strategy and the Environment, Energy Economics, and Technology in Society, among others. He has also edited prestigious books, including Selected Cases on Management (Tsinghua University Press) and Regulatory Frameworks and Digital Compliance in Green Marketing (IGI Global Scientific Publishing). He has served as a keynote speaker and publication chair at international academic conferences and contributes his expertise as a reviewer and editorial board member for various peer-reviewed academic journals.

Uddhab Pyakurel, an Associate Professor of Political Sociology at Kathmandu University (KU) was former Dean of the School of Arts. He, who had served as an Associate Dean from 2024, and also as Director of Global Engagement Division of the Office of Vice Chancellor for 3 years from 2021, has completed his Master in Political Science and Sociology from Tribhuvan University, M. Phil from Delhi School of Economics (University of Delhi), and earned Ph.D. from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Being an adjunct Fellow at School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University of Australia, he engages in academic journal articles and book chapters on poverty, people’s participation, social inclusion/exclusion, conflict, identity, democracy, election, Nepal's foreign relations and other socio-political issues of Nepal and Asia. Maoist Movement in Nepal: A Sociological Perspective (New Delhi: Adroit Publishers, 2007), Dalit Representation in National Politics of Nepal (Kathmandu: NNDSWO 2012); State of Conflict and Democratic Movement in Nepal (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2013);Nepal-India Open Border: Problems and Prospects (New Delhi: Vij Books, 2016); Reproduction of Inequality and Social Exclusion: A Study of Dalits in a Caste Society, Nepal (Singapore: Springer Nature 2021), Socialism, Prosperity and Development (Shangrila 2022), etc., are single authored and co-authored books for his credit.

Sébastien Lechevalier is a Socio-economist, Professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, specialised in the study of Asian Capitalisms, with a focus on the relations between technologies and societies. He is currently developping his research agenda on the impact of digitalization (including AI) on work organization, employment, and inequalities, at the macro and corporate levels and in focusing on the care sector. He is the founder and the president of the Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS (FFJ). He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at the German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ-Tokyo). He is also an International Senior Fellow at the Canon Institute for Global Studies (CIGS), editor of Socio-Economic Review and regular contributor for Le Monde. He is the principal investigator of INNOVCARE (2024-2028): “Care-led innovation: the case of eldercare in France and in Japan” (Funded by “PPR Autonomie, France 2030”). He also has been the principal investigator of INCAS (2015-2019): Understanding Institutional Change in Asia: a Comparative perspective with Europe (Funded by HORIZON 2020 MARIE SKŁODOWSKA-CURIE, RISE SCHEME).

Dr. Ping Li holds a Ph.D. degree. She serves as Executive Director of Guangxi Wanxin Building Materials Co., Ltd. Her research and practical work focus on enterprise management, industrial supply chain and the development of building‑material industry. She is based in Guangxi, P.R.China.

Dr. Shi Yanyan serves as Chairman of Mingmen Dingkun (Beijing) Culture and Technology Co., Ltd., and Director of the Institute for Immersive Technology & AI‑driven New Equilibrium. Her research and practice focus on immersive technology, AI industrial application and the integration of culture and technology. She is based in Beijing, China.