Ágnes Tóth PhD is the former president-CEO of Budapest Metropolitan University, the largest Hungarian private university. She has been working in higher education for over 20 years. Holds a PhD in economics and a master’s degree in mathematics and computer science. Her filed of interest is education management and the market of services. She is a TEDx speaker on the topic of the future of higher education. She is a member of the Strategic Advisor Board of the Study portals Global Higher Education Platform. Active member of Equalizer Foundation for gender equality in leadership.

Senad Bećirović, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the Faculty of Education and Humanities at International Burch University in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research is focused on the use of digital technologies in contemporary education. He has 20 years of teaching experience at different levels and educational institutions. Professor Bećirović is the author of four books and 53 scientific articles published in high-impact peer-reviewed journals. He presented his research findings at many international conferences as a keynote and regular speaker. 

Alexandra Horobet is Full Professor at the Department of International Business and Economics and member of Editorial boards and reviewer of high-ranked international journals. She holds a PhD in International Business and Economics from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. Her research interests include Business performance analysis, International finance, and Regional analysis, but she has a keen interest in interdisciplinary research evidenced by her works on ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) principles and sustainability. Since 2016, she is member of the Economic Sciences commission within the National Council for Attestation of University Titles, Diplomas and Certificates in Romania.

Eduard Baumöhl is an associate professor on the Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics in Bratislava and a researcher at the Institute of Economic Research of Slovak Academy of Sciences. He also has a part-time appointment as associate professor on the Faculty of Economics, Technical University of Košice and as associate professor in the Faculty of Economics and Administration, Masaryk University. His research topics include financial markets, stock market integration, financial contagion, networks, financial econometrics and corporate finance. Since 2014 he is a fellow and a board member of the Slovak Economic Association (SEA).

Matej Bílik is a policy analyst at the OECD Higher Education Policy Team, previously, he worked as analyst for the Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. He got involved in higher education policy through his active engagement in Student Council for Higher Education (Študentská rada vysokých škôl). He focuses on issues of quality assurance, internationalisation, and academic careers. Matej holds a MSc in Education from the University of Oxford (UK) and a bachelor’s degree in political science from BISLA (Slovakia).

Mirjana Pejić Bach is a full professor at the Department of Informatics, Faculty of Economics in Zagreb. She holds a PhD in system dynamics modelling and was trained at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research areas are the strategic application of IT in business, data science, artificial intelligence, simulation modelling, and modelling structural equations. Mirjana is the editor of journals indexed in Scopus and WoS and has organized several conferences. She has won several international awards for her scientific work, such as the Emerald Literati Network Awards for Excellence and is among the 2% most cited scientists according to Stanford's list. 

Miruna MAZURENCU MARINESCU PELE is full professor, Ph.D., of Statistics and Econometrics within Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Department of Statistics and Econometrics. She is also a MBA graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et des Metiers of Paris. Dr. Mazurencu Pele is a Fulbright grantee and a Romanian Academy of Science post-doctoral fellow. She is a local expert of FAO and Phare and project director of several national and international projects. Her articles are published in various international and national journals. Her area of expertise is multidimensional analysis of economic phenomena, the econometric modelling of the ICT based businesses performance and their valuation as well as quantitative methods applied in regional science.

Witold Nowiński is an Associate Professor at WSB Merito University in Poznań, Poland. He holds a PhD in business management from European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) and habilitation in economics from Cracow University of Economics. His research interests involve entrepreneurship, including entrepreneurial education and international entrepreneurship, innovation and strategic management. He has published among others in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Vocational Behavior and Studies in Higher Education. He is a Co-editor of International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research.

Natalie Rupp is currently pursuing a doctoral degree and working as a research assistant for the Institute of Business Analytics at Ulm University. She graduated in Management and Economics at the same university. Her research revolves around Sustainability Management Accounting and Control, with a particular focus on strategies and mechanisms that empower and guide individuals within organizations to make decisions that contribute positively to a sustainable future.

Jozef Štefčík is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Applied Languages at the University of Economics (Department of Linguistics and Translatology) in Bratislava. His research and teaching domain is the didactics of interpreting, the use of technologies in translation, and legal and community interpreting.  In 2016 – 2017, he was a member of the Task Force for Education of the International Federation of Translators – FIT and a member of the Terminology Committee, ISO (Information and Documentation). He is the coordinator of the mobility network CEEPUS for EUBA. He is the president of the Slovak Society of Translators of Scientific and Technical Literature (SSPOL) and a member of the work group AI Analysis within the International Federation of Translators (FIT). He has published several articles on translation and interpreting and a book on various issues of legal interpreting in Slovakia.

She graduated in biology at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava and obtained her PhD in immunology at the Institute of Neuroimmunology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Since 2017, she has been working on issues of science communication, open science and citizen science within the Contact Office for Open Science of the Centre for Scientific and Technical Information of the Slovak Republic. She contributed to the development of the National Strategy for Open Science and is also co-author of the scholarly publishing guide Sprievodca svetom vedeckého publikovania (https://zenodo.org/record/3236329) and online course Začnime si s občianskou vedou (Let's start with citizen science) on the platform EU-citizen.science.

Sudipta Sarangi is a Professor and the Department Head of Economics at Virginia Tech. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, he was a Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at Louisiana State University and a Program Director at the National Science Foundation. His research interests range from network theory, experimental and behavioral economics to development economics. He currently serves on various editorial boards including journals like Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Oxford Open Economics and Economic Modelling. He is currently spending the year as a Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Studies in Lyon.

Dr. Oliver Vettori is Dean of Accreditation and Quality Management and Director of Program Management and Teaching and Learning Support at WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business). He holds a doctoral degree in Sociology/Organisation Theory from the University of Vienna and is a Research Associate at the Institute for Organization Studies and the Institute for Public Management and Governance (also at WU Vienna). Dr. Vettori has been working in higher education management and research for more than a decade now, as a reviewer, trainer, researcher and expert in more than 45 different countries on four different continents including work for EUA, ENQA, UNESCO IIEP, ASEAN-QA, EU-SHARE and various agencies and higher education institutions. He serves on the International Editorial Board of Quality in Higher Education and on the Steering Committee of the EUA European Teaching and Learning Initiative.

Dr. Troy Wiwczaroski is an Associate Professor at Debrecen University, where he has been teaching since 1995. Specializing in public speaking, negotiation / conflict management and communication training in English and German, Dr. Wiwczaroski’s teaching and research include a focus on the skills-based professional development of his students, who come from many branches of the university. His students have gone on to work in management, academia and responsible ministerial and administrative positions throughout Hungary, Europe and the world. He currently serves as Faculty Chief Internationalization Officer.

Dr. Wiwczaroski has held workshops for professionals at companies throughout Europe, with clients including Emerson Process Management, Fischer, Citibank, Lufthansa Systems Hungária Kft., GE Healthcare Hungária Kft., DUNACELL Kft., LEGO, Vodafone, T-Systems, DENSO, Magyar Nemzeti Bank, Lilly Hungária Kft., TEVA Magyarország, Harman, as well as from many other respected organizations.