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Rebecca Abraham is a Finance Professor at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship. She obtained her Doctorate in Business Administration-Finance from the U.S. International University in 1989. After serving as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Management Science at the National University, Dr. Abraham joined the Farquhar Center of Nova Southeastern University in the Fall of 1989. Throughout her career, Dr. Abraham has taught a wide range of courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels, including corporate finance, investments, portfolio theory, financial management, business strategy and policy, quantitative methods, microeconomics, and macroeconomics. Her dedication to teaching excellence was recognized when she received the first Farquhar Center Award for Teaching Excellence in 2000, as well as the Teacher of the Year Award from the Huizenga School in 2006, highlighting her exceptional service to students. Dr. Abraham has made significant contributions to her field through extensive publications in reputable journals. She is a member of the Editorial Review Board of Personality and Individual Differences and has authored a book chapter in a prestigious journal. Together with Dr. Robert Trippi, formerly of California State University-Long Beach, she has pioneered a methodology for determining implicit interest rates in option prices. Her research work has also been featured in the Conference Proceedings of the Decision Sciences Institute and the Association of Management.

Prasanna Kolar is an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture at KL University, Vijayawada, A.P., India. With a strong educational background and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, India, he has established himself as a knowledgeable and accomplished researcher in his field. Dr. Kolar has also qualified in ASRB NET in Agricultural Economics and KSET in Economics, showcasing his 2 expertise in these subjects. Throughout his career, Dr. Kolar has made significant contributions to the field of agricultural economics through extensive research and publications. His work has garnered wide recognition, with numerous research papers published in prestigious national and international journals that have received high ratings from the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS), as well as indexing in Scopus and the Web of Science. In addition to his scholarly achievements, Dr. Prasanna Kolar actively engages in various sustainability and agricultural conferences, seminars, webinars, and training programs. Notably, he presented his research at various conferences, including prestigious IEEE conferences. His research areas include finance, marketing, development economics, micro and macroeconomics, international economics, statistical data analysis, linear programming, regression models, time series, cross-sectional and panel data analysis, and more. Through the dissemination of his findings to a wide range of experts and scholars, Dr. Kolar not only shares his knowledge but also plays a vital role in advancing the collective understanding and fostering the development of the agricultural economics and sustainability field. [Editor]