Sheila M. Puffer is University Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University, Boston, where she is a professor of international business and sustainability at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. In 2022 she spent an interdisciplinary sabbatical at Northeastern’s New College of the Humanities campus in London, UK, where she conducted research on fossil fuel companies’ involvement in renewable energy projects. Other current research projects include the evolution of Russian business leadership, skilled migrants, sustainability activities in the international construction industry, sustainable sand substitutes in construction, and experiences of international students. In October 2021 she designed and hosted The International Student Experience conference, a hybrid event that was attended by students, faculty, and staff across Northeastern’s global network, both on the Boston campus and livestreamed. Dr. Puffer is also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. Her award-winning coauthored book, Hammer & Silicon: The Soviet Diaspora in the US Innovation Economy: Immigration, Innovation, Institutions, Imprinting, and Identity, was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. Her article, Sustainable Sand Substitutes in the Construction Industry in the United States and Canada: Assessing Stakeholder Awareness, was published in Sustainability in 2022. She holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.