Professor Cedomir Nestorovic teaches Geopolitics and Islamic Business and Management at ESSEC Business School, France. He is the academic co-director of the MBA at the Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain. Cedomir authored Marketing in an Islamic Environment (2009) and Marketing Islamico in 2010. He has been a Visiting Professor at University of Malaya (2009) and he gave lectures at the University Putra Malaysia, University of Teheran, Kuwait University and University of United Arab Emirates. He is member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Islamic Marketing. He is currently the Director of the ESSEC Executive MBA Asia Pacific in Singapore.

Prof Cedomir Nestorovic will talk about management and business education of halal industries. He will stress that Islamic finance is well covered but that other halal industries lack adequate academic programs.