Professor Neil Towers is leading the “Growing Indonesia – a Triangular Approach” project. Neil is an internationally recognised expert in agile digital retail marketing, fashion supply chain management and small business growth whose expertise is often sought by board level senior management across various sectors.  As Lead for Research in the University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology, he has successfully secured and lead significant collaborative business research funded projects worth €3m+ in the last four years. With over 35 years of extensive academic and business experience in small and large organisations his internationally rated expertise underpins high quality applied research and scholarly activity that impacts both business performance and higher education knowledge creation. Since 2009 he has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Retail Marketing and Distribution and has wide experience of lead roles in research leadership. Neil is a member of the Technical Authority Committee of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, former Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute of Marketing until 2014, and past Chair of the Qualifications and Awards Committee of the Institute of Operations Management (now Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, CILT).

As GITA Project Manager, Nadine Sulkowski is leading the creation of a national entrepreneurship association in Indonesia and oversees public relations activities on behalf of the GITA Project.  In her role as the International Development Lead for the University of Gloucestershire School of Business and Technology she has a wealth of experience in developing and managing international collaborations worldwide.   Nadine has recently secured €1m EU funding to work with universities, public and non-governmental sector organisations in Indonesia to build eight university disaster response centres across Indonesia and to envision future strategies for building Indonesia’s socio-economic and disaster resilience.

Gideon Capie manages the University of Gloucestershire’s Funding Office and is responsible for overseeing the management of all EU funded projects run by the University.  He is qualified as a Prince2 practitioner (project management). The University Funding Office team has many years of combined experience managing European projects, the largest of which was a 6 million Euro ESF project with 12 partners. The Funding Office also managed a successful 50+ partner European funded network where partnership working, and management skills were essential to its smooth implementation. Gideon has expertise in partnership working, project management, dissemination and exploitation, and financial management in EU projects. Gideon is also HELM qualified having undertaken the Higher Education Leadership and Management programme. Gideon and his team are based in the University’s Growth Hub.