Professor Irene Kamberidou represented the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) at the ICAEB & ICSTM 2025: the 9th International Conference on Applied Economics and Business (ICAEB 2025) and the 9th International Conference on Sustainable Tourism Management (ICSTM 2025), August 24-26, 2025 in Paris, France. This concurrent event—namely both annual conferences held simultaneously, in the same venue, with an opening ceremony which includes presentations and discussions, followed by parallel sessions—provides a platform and forum for researchers and professionals to share their work and latest findings in sustainable tourism management and in applied economics and business. Prof. Irene Kamberidou, who is a member of the NKUA Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination Committee, chaired Session V, which focused on "Entrepreneurship, Education, and Gender Dynamics", and she subsequently presented her research on “Women’s Agency and Entrepreneurship in the Digital Age.”
Prof. Oladip Olalekan David of North-West University, South Africa presented his study on “Africa’s Digitalization Convergence: An Economic Cure or Curse?” and Dr. Noah Afees Oluwashina, also from Northwestern University in South African, his paper on: “External Financing and Entrepreneurship: Insights from Africa”.
Concisely, this year’s keynotes and speakers included Conference Chair Prof. Atur Taghipour, the University of Le Havre, France; Co-Chair Prof. Matthias Fuchs, Free University of Bolzano, Italy; Prof. Behzad Behdani, University of South-Eastern Norway; Assoc. Prof. Eric Benhamou, Université Paris-Dauphine, PSL, France; Assoc. Prof. Ahman Adnan Toumeh, University of Jordan, Amman Jordan; Prof. Fazil Kayikci, University Alliance Ruhr, Germany; Dr. Martin Scholes, Grand Canyon University, USA and many more.
The conference was co-sponsored by Universite Le Havre, Normandie (ULHN) and the International Journal of Trade, Economics and Finance (IJTEF) with the support of Universidad de Almeria, Spain, Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Argentina and the Journal of Advanced Management Science (JOAMS).
