Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar, PhD, MA, MPhil (Economics), is affiliated with the School of Business at The Papua New Guinea University of Technology, Papua New Guinea. His distinguished academic career includes former professorships at Universiti Utara Malaysia (Malaysia), Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (South Korea), Addis Ababa University-UoG-DBU-DTU (Ethiopia), Lovely Professional University (India), and University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (India). Dr. Prabhakar is the Director of Global South Social Networks (GSSN) and the former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Asian Social Sciences. He is also an active member of the Intellectual Networks for the South Centre in Geneva. For the past 28 years, Dr. Prabhakar's research has centered on themes such as globalization, South-South economic cooperation, trade and technology, social entrepreneurship, economic systems, poverty and inequality, sustainable and inclusive development, and the evolving balance of global powers-including BRICS, Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), and the Global South's movement toward multipolarity and de-dollarization. During his academic journey, he has published five books and contributed 32 research papers to Scopus-indexed journals. Dr. Prabhakar earned his MPhil in 1996 and his PhD in 2003, specializing in South-South trade and technological cooperation from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Since 2022, Dr. Prabhakar has been affiliated with the University of Technology.