On June 30, 2017, ISM PhD candidate Simon Okechukwu Akpa successfully defended his dissertation titled “Participants, Roles, and Governance in Open Air Marketing Channels in Nigeria.” The defense jury was made up of Professor Vincent Onyemah (adviser), Professor Areti Krepapa (second examiner), and Professor César Baena (ISM’s Dean and Director of Doctoral Research). 
	
	
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