Yama Temouri is a Full Professor of International Business at KEDGE Business School in Marseille. He holds a PhD in Management from Aston University in the UK. His research interests are in international businesses, firm performance and in particular, the determinants and effects of tax haven Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). He is internationally known for his work on tax havens, which was awarded the 2024 prestigious Academy of Management (IM Division) “Georgetown Best Paper Award in International Business and Policy” amongst other awards. He teaches various IB courses at the under-, post-graduate and executive levels and he supervised 7 PhD students to completion, five of whom work as academics in prestigious UK Universities. Apart from his teaching and research, he served as Associate Editor for the Business Research Quarterly and is currently the Chair of the Academy of International Business – MENA region. He also has extensive consultancy experience, including projects for the OECD, European Commission and for several UK Government Departments and has generated significant funding via grant applications on FDI and tax havens. His research is published in top tier international journals such as the Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, Journal of Product Innovation Management, International Journal of Management Reviews, Management International Review, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Small Business Economics, Economica, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of Intellectual Capital, and other leading journals.