Amit Batabyal is an expert on microeconomic issues in general and international politics with particular reference to South Asia.

He can also speak on natural resources and the environment, international economic development and international trade, South Asian politics and economics, globalization and its impact on rich and poor nations, and corruption and bribery in developing countries. Also regional economic growth and development and the management of invasive species.

He has published more than 500 books, book chapters, refereed journal articles and book reviews. Batabyal has presented research at conferences and in universities in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia and won numerous national and international awards for research.

At RIT, his primary responsibilities are research, teaching and service.

Batabyal earned his bachelor's in applied economics and business management from Cornell University (1987), master's in agricultural and applied economics from University of Minnesota (1990), and Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from University of California at Berkeley (1994).

Richard DeMartino holds the Albert J. Simone Endowed Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at RIT and is the director of the Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a multidisciplinary effort to study and promote entrepreneurship in the RIT community.

DeMartino’s research interests include Entrepreneurial Motivations,Technology and Commercialization and Small Business Growth.More recently he has conducted research on the entrepreneurial motivations of the deaf community, in conjunction with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

His innovations include collaborative efforts founding and administering the Saunders College of Business Summer Start Program, the Technology Commercialization Clinic, the Small Business Strategic Growth Program and the Digital Entrepreneurship Program.

His articles have appeared in a number of journals including the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management, and the Journal of Innovation and Product Management.

Prior to his doctoral studies, DeMartino worked in industry as a foreign currency, bond and risk trader. He continues to consult in economic development and technology-related new business ventures.

DeMartino has taught at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, and at the Virginia Commonwealth University.

He earned his bachelor's at Roanoke College and his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.

Dr. Neil Hair is associate professor of marketing in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. Areas of expertise include electronic commerce, ethics, international marketing and social entrepreneurship.

Recent projects include understanding perceptions of advertising and customer value in popular online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, personal branding in virtual space, virtual ethnography in popular worlds such as Second Life, and global studies on social media use for collaboration and innovation looking at more than 100 of the worlds thought leaders operating in this space.

Hair is the recipient of RIT's Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006, the Exemplary Online Faculty Award in 2008 and the 2012-13 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Hair hails from the U.K. and holds Chartered Marketer Status from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Ph.D. from Cranfield as well as degrees from Sheffield and Cardiff Business Schools.

Ron Hira is an expert on outsourcing (including offshore outsourcing), technology policy, high skill immigration, and research and development policy.

He is a licensed professional engineer, a research associate with the Economic Policy Institute and the co-author of Outsourcing America (AMACOM Books 2005).

Hira teaches courses on technological innovation, communications and public policy. He has appeared on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” and “NOW with Bill Moyers,” and his expertise has been cited in numerous publications including The New York Times and Time magazine. He has participated in countless conferences related to science/technology workforce issues and has twice testified before congress on national economic policy.

Hira completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Science Policy & Outcomes at Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in public policy from George Mason University, a master’s in electrical engineering from George Mason University and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Sandra Rothenberg is an associate professor of management and the director of the Saunders College Institute for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. She teaches organizational behavior and business, government and society. She is also a research affiliate with the Printing Industry Center at RIT, the International Motor Vehicle Program, and the Harvard Global Environmental Assessment Program.

Her primary areas of expertise include corporate social responsibility, environmental and sustainable management, business and government relations and business ethics.

Rothenberg’s research primarily focuses on corporate environmental strategy and management, lean manufacturing and environmental performance, government regulation and technical innovation, international environmental management, worker participation and environmental activism within firms.

Rothenberg earned her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from Syracuse University (1990), her masters in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992) and Ph.D. in organization studies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management (1999).