About the Authors Mark J. Ahn Mark J. Ahn is President and Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Galena Biopharma (Nasdaq: GALE) and Professor (adjunct), Biosciences, Creighton University. Prior to Galena, Dr. Ahn was Principal at Pukana Partners, Ltd. that provides strategic consulting to life science companies; and Associate Professor, Global Management at Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Willamette University. He previously served as Chair, Science & Technology Management, Victoria University at Wellington, New Zealand. Dr. Ahn was also founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Hana Biosciences. Prior to Hana, he served as Vice President, Hematology and corporate officer at Genentech, Inc., as well as held positions of increasing responsibility at Amgen and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company; and served in the US Army. Dr. Ahn also serves on public and venture capital-backed Board of Directors for Access Pharmaceuticals, Mesynthes and Scribes STAT. Dr. Ahn’s teaching and research interests include global strategy and innovation management; biotechnology and life science industries; leadership and transformational change. Dr. Ahn received a B.A. in History and M.B.A. in Finance from Chaminade University; and M.A. in Classics from Victoria University. He was a graduate fellow in Economics at Essex University, and obtained a Ph.D. in Management from the University of South Australia. Dr. Ahn is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. Javier Aranzadi Javier Aranzadi is Associate Professor of Economics at Universidad Auto´noma de Madrid, Spain. Dr. Aranzadi has studied at Institut fu¨r Wirtschaftspolitik at the University of Cologne and has been visiting scholar at Georgetown University. His main areas of interest are Austrian economics, business ethics and philosophical foundations of economic systems. His last book is Liberalism against Liberalism. Elena Avramidou Elena Avramidou is Educational and Cultural Attache´ at the Embassy of Greece in Beijing and teaches Modern Greek Language and Culture at the Centre for Hellenic G.P. Prastacos et al. (eds.), Leadership through the Classics, 539 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-32445-1, # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012 540 About the Authors Studies, Peking University, China. She holds a Doctorate and a Master’s degree in Philosophy from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and graduated from the University of Turin, Italy, with a degree in Law. Her research and scientific interests are in the areas of Comparative Studies between Greek and Chinese thought, especially Plato and Confucius, as well as of the relationship between Intellectuals and Power in China. She acted as organizer and coordinator of cultural events, has been member of the Cultural Events and Activities Planning Committee of the Italian Cultural Institute of Thessaloniki, Greece, and taught Italian Language and Culture. She has also worked as a journalist with newspapers and magazines and had the production and presentation of cultural programs in radio and television. Steve Bakalis Dr. Steve Bakalis currently oversees the international engagement portfolio in the School of International Business, Victoria University. During his academic career, Steve has also undertaken numerous administrative duties at the University, Faculty and School level. He has also held visiting teaching and research appointments at Central University of Finance and Economics (Beijing-China), University of Thessaly (Volos-Greece), Kasetsart University (Bangkok-Thailand), The Ministry of Higher Education (Muscat-Oman), and the National Europe Centre at The Australian National University (ANU). At The ANU he was the Outreach Coordinator of the European Diaspora Research Network (EDRN) which was initiated under the European Union (EU) Jean Monnet Reflection Activities Program, leading to his involvement as a partner investigator in an Australian Research Council project, entitled, “Australian Diasporas and Brain Gain: Exploring Current and Potential Transnational Linkages”. His research interests lie in the area of Management Control Systems and National Culture, Networks in International Business, International Business Case Studies, Export Strategy, International Education Management, and International Student Mobility Strategies. He has published widely in international and domestic journals also regularly presents at international and domestic academic conferences. Martha C. Beck Dr. Martha C. Beck is Professor of Philosophy at Lyon College in Batesville, Arkansas. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from Bryn Mawr College in Philadelphia. She has attended two Summer Seminars sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, on Plato at Duke University and on Aristotle at the University of California in San Diego. She has written 12 books and numerous articles on: Plato, Aristotle, Greek tragedy, Greek mythology, and Aristotle from the perspectives of virtue ethics, archetypal psychology, contemporary systems thinking, environmental ethics, feminist theory, and the United Nations’ capabilities model for human development. Her articles have been published (or will be) in journals in the United States, Greece, The Russian Republic, South Africa, Australia, and China. She has delivered papers in Athens and Olympia, Moscow and St. Petersburg, Beijing and Shang Hai, Ascea, Italy and Prague. She has spent numerous About the Authors 541 summers and a sabbatical living in Athens, doing research on the legacy of the Ancient Greeks and talking to prominent Greek scholars in Philosophy and Environ- mental Archeology. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship to teach Western Thought at Sunan Gunung Djati Islamic State University in Bandung, Indonesia, beginning January 2012. Marianna Benetatou Marianna Benetatou conducts seminars on Chinese and Comparative philosophy at cultural centers and private institutions in Athens. Her area of research covers Comparative philosophy between China and ancient Greece, Neo-Confucianism and virtue ethics, ancient philosophical theories and modernization and Buddhism. She has graduated from the University Paris IV-Sorbonne, France and holds a bachelor, Masters and Post Graduate Degree in philosophy and a Doctorate Degree in Comparative philosophy. She has been invited by Beijing University as visiting professor and by the Tokyo Institute of Technology as visiting scholar. She has given lectures to different Universities and has participated in various international conferences on philosophy in Greece and abroad. She has published articles in international philosophical reviews and is the author of two books, namely “The Lotus Road. Places Where Lived the Buddha,” Athens, editions Konidaris, 2006 and “Beyond Orientalism. Comparative Approach to Chinese and Greek Philosophy,” Athens, editions Konidaris, 2007. She is a member of the Greek Philosophical Society, of the Greece-China Association and of the Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development. Vikas Rai Bhatnagar Vikas Rai Bhatnagar is an alumnus of Dayalbagh Educational Institute, India and is presently a research scholar with Management Development Institute, India pursuing his executive doctoral program in Organization Behavior. He served the Indian Army as a Captain and held various leadership and staff roles. Subsequently, Vikas joined the corporate sector and led the Human Resources function in various capacities in General Electric, Aventis, Bayer, Dr. Reddy’s Labs, and currently Vikas is Group Chief Human Resources Officer in Ashok Minda Group. The research interests of Vikas include leadership development, organizational dynamics, and change man- agement. He is passionate about creating knowledge that adds to theory as well as impacts practice. He has presented several papers in international conferences and has a few publications to his credit. Vikas employs his spare time to play tennis; read philosophy, theoretical physics, psychology, and poetry; watch theater, listen to classical music, or perform meditation. George C. Bitros George C. Bitros, Professor of Economics, Emeritus, Athens University of Economics and Business. He obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University in 1972 and stayed on for teaching and research until 1976. In that year he returned to Greece in the position of Senior Research Associate in the Research Department of the Bank of Greece and 3 years later he moved on to the Athens 542 About the Authors University of Economics and Business where he served as Professor of Economics until 2007 and Chairman of the Department from 2003 to 2007. He has published extensively in major scholarly journals. He has served as research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research (USA). He has held advisory posts in government, government commissions, as well as major business concerns, and he serves as referee for several domestic and international journals. Currently he is European Editor of the Journal of Economic Asymmetries. Chung-ying Cheng Professor Dr. Chung-ying Cheng, was born in 1935 in China, received his college education at National Taiwan University in Taipei with major in philosophy and literature, received his M.A. in Philosophy from University of Washington (1959), and received Ph.D. in Philosophy (with minor in mathematics) from Harvard University (1964). He started teaching in 1964, and became a tenured full Professor of Philosophy by 1972 at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Professor Cheng’s specialization includes philosophy of logic and language, phi- losophy of science,