Editors Session

Pavithra Kailasapathy is a Professor in Human Resources Management at the Faculty of Management & Finance, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. She was the Head of the Department of Human Resources Management from 2010-2013 and from 2017 until April 2019. She graduated from the University of Colombo with BBA degree and has Master’s degrees from the New School for Social Research, New York and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA and PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia. Pavithra is a Chartered Member of CIPM Sri Lanka. From 2013 Pavithra was an Associate Editor of the South Asian Journal of Human Resources Management and from 2021 the Editor-in-Chief. Her research interests are in the areas of work-family conflict and gender issues in organisations. Pavithra lectures in areas such as HRM, Research Methodology, and Gender Issues in Organisations. She is a reviewer of papers for many local and international journals and conferences.

Sabri Boubaker is a Professor of Finance at the EM Normandie Business School, France & University of Swansea, UK. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Paris Est (2006) and an HDR degree (Habilitation for Supervising Doctoral Research) in 2010 from the same University. He is the recipient of "The Economic Research Foundation's Research Award 2022" from the "Centrum for Forskning om Ekonomiska Relationer, Sweden" and the best corporate finance paper award at the 2023 Asian Finance Conference.

He has published many academic papers (+ 100 papers) in international refereed journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of International Money and Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Auditing: A Journal of Theory & Practice, and British Journal of Management. Dr. Boubaker is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Financial Management & Accounting (IF: 5.1, Scopus Q1, Clarivate Q1) and serves on the editorial boards of several accounting and finance academic journals such as the British Journal of Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions, and Money (Subject Editor), International Review of Economics and Finance (Associate editor), International Review of Economics and Finance (Associate editor) and International Journal of Finance & Economics (Associate editor).

Kathryn is a professor in strategic management, entrepreneurship and sustainability.  She is particularly interested in the intersection between these three fields and how they may create system change, and the role that organisations can play in shaping this change.  Kathryn is concerned at the rate of climate change, and thus we need new forms of organisation to attend to these challenges. Her teaching and research continues to focus on collaborative forms of organising - from the management of tourism destinations to how the UN SDGs can engage with change 'to leave no-one behind'. 

Editorial work is important to her. Kathryn is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion; and on the editorial boards of leading journals that include: Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning and education, Journal of Business Ethics and Journal of Management Education.  She also regularly reviews for other leading journals.

Kathryn has been a member of the Academy of Management for over twenty years. During that time, she has been on the five-year leadership track for the Management, Spirituality and Religion Interest Group; received multiple best paper awards; and been involved in governance committees for the Academy.