Lailani Alcantara is a Professor and Pro-Vice President at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University (APU). Supported by a Japanese government (MEXT) scholarship, she earned her Ph.D. in management from the University of Tsukuba. Believing in the transformative power of education, she focuses her teaching and research on responsible business, diversity and inclusion, and their relationship with sustainability.

She currently serves on the Board of Directors of AACSB (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) and as a council member of the Association of Asia-Pacific Business Schools (AAPBS), and is a visiting scholar at Cornell University.

At APU, she was the first female Dean of the College of International Management and the Graduate School of Management, and established and served as the founding director of the Center for Inclusive Leadership.

Her research has been published in international journals such as the Journal of International Management, Long Range Planning, and Asian Business and Management, in books from Routledge and Wiley, and in academic publications in Japan.

She also holds professional certifications in management and leadership from AACSB, Harvard University, Cornell University, and Stanford University.