Chairman
Cheng-I Wei
Dean Wei has served as Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and the University of Maryland Extension since September 1, 2005.
Prior to coming to Maryland, Dean Wei served as Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies of the College of Human Environmental Sciences at Oklahoma State University, as well as Interim Head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences.
He was Bruno Professor and Head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at Auburn University, Alabama, for four years. Dean Wei received his B.S. in biology from the Tunghai University of Taiwan in 1970, an M.S. in medical microbiology from National Taiwan University in 1972, and a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of California-Davis, in 1979. His research interests are in food microbiology and safety, toxicology, and immunotoxicology.
Vice-Chairman
Tzong-Ru Lee
Dr. Tzong-Ru Lee is the Professor of Department of Marketing and the Advisor of Global Research & Industry Alliance at National Chung Hsing University. He is also the Vice-Chairman of International Association for Agricultural Sustainability and the Chief Editor of the Journal “IJAITG”.
Dr. Lee is the former Chief of Media Relations Division and the former Chairman of the Department of Marketing, the Institute of Electronic Commerce and the Center for Electronic Commerce and Knowledge Economics Research in National Chung Hsing University. His contributions in the academia are outstanding that he has been awarded by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England as 2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 21st century in the field of Marketing and Logistics in 2003 and 2000 outstanding intellectuals of the 21st century in 2005. He also serves as the associate editor of multiple journals, IJLEG, IJGC.
Secretary-General
Tan Wee Liang
Dr. Tan is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Singapore Management University (SMU).
Dr. Tan has served as a national expert for entrepreneurship and SMEs for APEC, Asian Productivity Organization, the Colombo Plan Secretariat and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His current research interests lie in the domains of entrepreneurship, family business, international cooperation, and corporate governance. His initial research was in law as he began his career as a law professor. He has since moved into entrepreneurship research and published in Journals and Reviews such as the Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice and Journal of High Technology Management Research. In addition to journal publications, he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Small Business Management, International Entrepreneurship and Management Research, and Small Business Research.
Founder
Kuo-Chang Fu
Michael is the Founder and Managing Director of Vital Wellspring. He specializes in integrating academic research with business innovation to solve many of today’s modern challenges.
Michael grew up in Taiwan and majored in Engineering and Management in university – a combination that allows him to utilize technology and business modelling to solve numerous practical problems. Michael moved to Singapore to pursue the PhD GM program offered by SMU. At the same time, he took the opportunity to expand his family’s publishing business. Using Singapore as a springboard, he developed partnerships with many publishers to successfully enter the European, American and Chinese markets.
Michael is also passionate about sustainability and climate change and wants to improve the World for his fellow mankind. With his connections and experience in academia and the industry, he set up The International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (Singapore) which works through a multi-disciplinary platform to gather the professional wisdom of scholars and uses technology to achieve agriculture sustainability.
