Chia-Lin Chang holds a PhD (Economics), 2004, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, is an elected Distinguished Fellow of the International Engineering and Technology Institute (DFIETI), and an elected Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand (FMSSANZ).

Chia-Lin Chang is a University Distinguished Professor, Professor of Economics, Professor of Finance, and Director of the Agricultural and Natural Resources Research Centre (ANRRC) at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan, Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Economic and Financial Sciences, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, and Adjunct Professor, Department of Economic Analysis and ICAE, Complutense University of Madrid (founded 1293), Spain.

Chia-Lin Chang has over 100 journal publications (most of which are in Web of Science Clarivate Analytics and Scopus, and chapters in books and edited and fully refereed conference proceedings volumes, is Executive Editor of the Taiwan Journal of Applied Economics (TJAE) (TSSCI), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Reviews of Global Economics (JRGE), Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Medical and Health Economics (JMHE), Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Management Information and Decision Sciences (JMIDS), Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Big Data and Computational Science (JBDCS), Senior Co-Editor in Chief, Advances in Decision Sciences (ADS) (Scopus), a member of the Editorial Boards of 20+ international journals, and has guest co-edited special issues of the following Web of Science Clarivate Analytics or Scopus journals: Journal of Econometrics (Elsevier), Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (Elsevier), North American Journal of Economics and Finance (Elsevier), Annals of Financial Economics (World Scientific), Advances in Decision Sciences (Hindawi), Sustainability (MDPI), Energies (MDPI), Journal of Risk and Financial Management (MDPI), Risks (MDPI), and China Finance Review International (Emerald).

Chia-Lin Chang has been a visiting professor at the Econometric Institute, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Faculty of Economics and Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan; Institute of Economic Research, Kyoto University, Japan; Faculty of Economics, Yokohama National University, Japan; Department of Economics, University of Padova (founded 1222), Italy; and Department of Finance, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China; and Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China. Her research areas include applied econometrics, financial econometrics, applied statistics, quantitative finance, risk and financial management, energy economics, energy finance, applied time series analysis, forecasting, technology and innovation, empirical industrial organization, health and medical economics, tourism research, tourism management, bibliometrics, and international rankings of journals and academics.   

Fulufhelo Netswera currently works at the Business School, North West University South Africa. Fulufhelo does research in Qualitative Social Research, Quantitative Social Research and Sociological Theory. Their current project is 'Environmental medicine: social and medical aspects'.