Dr. Joanna Szulc is an Assistant Professor at the Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. She holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of Leeds, UK. Joanna has broad experience in researching employee wellbeing, workplace relationships, and neurodiversity using qualitative methods. She published her work in international journals and during prestigious international conferences and received several international grants.
Dr. Parvin Neginraz is the Economic Counselor of the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Romania, and holds a PhD. in International Relations. Her interested areas of research are peacebuilding and Track Two Diplomacy.
Dr. Katarzyna Kubiszewskais is an academic teacher in the Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Management and Economics. She is passionate about education, finance, and history. Thanks to 10-year-experience in business, Katarzyna Kubiszewska, Ph.D., successfully joins theory with practice in her courses delivered for students. The main courses are Finance, International Finance, Banking, both in English and Polish, which are offered in Polish and at foreign universities. The topic of the proposed workshop will refer to the financial crisis and its impact on the socio-economic environment.
Ph.D. Edin Jašarović completed his postgraduate studies at the University of Arts in Belgrade, at the UNESCO Department of Interdisciplinary Studies – Management in Culture and Cultural Policy of the Balkans. In 2016 he defended his doctoral dissertation entitled: “Strategy for developing local cultural policy from the aspect of the creative economy of cities.” He served as Vice-Dean for teaching and Vice-Dean for international cooperation at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Montenegro. He is currently engaged as a professor at the Music Academy, Faculty of Fine Arts, and the Faculty of Political Sciences. At the home faculty, he teaches the subject: Management in Culture, Cultural Policy, Intercultural Projects, Creative Industries, Media Theory, Methodology of Artistic and Scientific Research, European cultural models, etc. He is the founder and program director of the NGO “Center for Research and Development of Cultural Policy.” He was a member of the Council of the Montenegrin National Theater. He is currently serving as the President of the Council of the Film Center of Montenegro. Now he is a member of the Art Council of the Senate of the University of Montenegro and a member of the Committee for Doctoral Studies of the Senate of the University of Montenegro. He is the acting Dean of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. During his professional career, he participated in numerous international and domestic cultural projects. He has been involved in various national and local commissions and working bodies for culture. So far, he has participated in numerous international and regional conferences and seminars. He has also participated in several COST Actions and is a member of several international associations dealing with cultural policy, acting as a national representative of ITI/UNESCO.
Dr. Iris Ron has engaged in professional enrichment for human resource managers in various organizations for the past seven years. Ms. Ron lives in Israel, and, as part of her job, she manages the Human Resources Forum, an interactive, multi-participant social network comprising 1,500 female human resource managers. As for her academic background, she has a Bachelor’s Degree in Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies and a Master’s Degree in Western Philosophy.
Dr. Tana Licsandru is a Lecturer in Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. Her research advocates for the power of marketing to elevate the voices of consumers who are often under- and misrepresented in brand communications and media, focusing on immigrant consumers. In this presentation, Tana will talk about her research on inclusive marketing and how it could enhance individual and collective wellbeing in multicultural marketplaces. Positive and negative examples from marketing practice will be presented and discussed.
Dr. Eugène Loos is an Associate Professor of Communication, Policy and Management Studies at the Utrecht University School of Governance in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Research School NIG (Netherlands Institute of Government). His research agenda focuses on the (ir)relevance of age and life stage for: (1) digital information search behavior, (2) the perception of the reliability of information, and (3) the identification with images in digital information sources.
Dr. Ana Adi is a Professor of PR and Corporate Communications at Quadriga University of Applied Sciences Berlin. Before moving to Berlin, Ana has worked, lived, and studied in the USA (with a Fulbright scholarship), Belgium, Bahrain, Thailand, and the UK. Her research explores, among others, the future of public relations. She is the host of the Women in PR podcast, Chair of the Digital Communication Awards in Berlin since 2015, and a member of the Institute for Public Relations Measurement Commission since 2018.
Dr. Gabriela Nicolescu is a Romanian visual anthropologist and curator interested in aging and care, migration, museum anthropology, and exhibition-making. She joined the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, the University of Oxford, in 2020. She currently works on the Disobedient Buildings project, funded by AHRC. Gabriela gained her Ph.D. in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and then worked on several projects as a curator and postdoctoral researcher at Goldsmiths, University of London, and University College Cork. She curated exhibitions in Austria, Hong Kong, Hungary, Republic of Moldova, Romania, United Kingdom, and the Philippines and published in several journals, including the Journal of Design History, Journal of Material Culture, World Art, Critique of Anthropology and Anthropology, and Ageing.
Dr. Ahmet Erdi Öztürk is an associate professor and Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at Coventry University, London Metropolitan University, and GIGA. He is also an associate researcher (Chercheur Associé) at Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes and Non-Residence Scholar at ELIAMEP’s Turkey Programme. He is the co-editor of Edinburgh University Press’ Series on Modern Turkey, Middle East Critique, and the International Journal of Religion editor. He was a Swedish Institute Pre and Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Scholar in Residence at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of more than 25 peer-review journal articles, numerous policy reports, opinion pieces, and co-editor of four special issues on religion and politics and Turkish politics. Dr. Öztürk is the co-editor of Authoritarian Politics in Turkey: Elections, Resistance and the AKP (IB Tauris 2017), Ruin or Resilience? The Future of the Gulen Movement in Transnational Political Exile (Routledge 2018) and Islam, Populism and Regime Change in Turkey (Routledge 2019). In January 2021, his first solo-authored book, Religion, Identity and Power: Turkey and the Balkans in the Twenty-First Century, is published by Edinburgh University Press. He is a regular contributor to media outlets such as Open Democracy, The Conversation, Huffington Post, and France 24.
Dr. Agnieszka Kabalska holds a Ph.D. in Economics, in the discipline of Management Science, and works as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Management of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków (Poland). She is an active and creative academic lecturer and co-author of many publications in business models, value creation, and co-creation.
Dr. Katarina Zakić comes from Serbia. She joined the Institute of International Politics and Economics in 2018, and she is the Head of the Center “One Belt, One Road” starting from August 2021. The major fields of her research are management and intercultural management and business practice and economics in the People’s Republic of China. Katarina is Editor-in-Chief of IIPE’s journal The Review of International Affairs, where she previously was Deputy Editor-in-Chief (2019–2020). Katarina obtained the title of Associate Professor at the Faculty of Business Studies in October 2017, where she was teaching several subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior, Strategic Management, and Intercultural Management, on all levels of studies. She was the director of the Chinese Centre (2013–2018) and the Vice-Rector for International Cooperation (2017–2018). She is a member of the ESEE FANEL Network. Katarina Zakić got a Chinese scholarship Visiting China (2014), granted by Hanban, which she completed at the prestigious Nankai University in Tianjin. She also won a scholarship from the Chinese Ministry of Culture – Visiting Program for Young Sinologist 2016 – conducted in Xi′an.
Dr. Eitan Barak’s main fields of interest include Arms Control and Disarmament in the Middle East, International Security Regimes and Peacekeeping operations in the Middle East, International Law (The law of Arms Control and The Law of Weaponry), and Israel’s Foreign and Defense policy.
Dr. Barak is an expert of The Miriam Institute and Associate Fellow, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute, The Hebrew University. He was a senior researcher at the International Relations Department, the Hebrew University, and a Fulbright postdoctoral grantee in the International Security Program at Harvard University. Dr. Barak has also served as an adjunct faculty in various Israeli academic institutions and was a visiting scholar at the Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley.
Assist. Prof. Dr. Ozgur Batur was born on August 19, 1977, in Turkey. He received BA in ELT from Girne American University, Northern Cyprus, in February 2000. He carried out his career as a foreign language teacher for 15 years at different educational levels in Turkey. He received MA Degree in ELT from Yıldız Technical University, İstanbul, in 2006. He then pursued his Ph.D. studies and received his Doctorate Degree in Educational Administration and Supervision from Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University in 2015. Since October 2015, he has been teaching as a full-time faculty member at the Faculty of Education of Girne American University in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, and since September 2016, he has been the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Education. His research interests are Educational Administration, Leadership, Universities’ Social Responsibilities, and Organizational Psychology.
Prof. John M. Nomikos is the director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS), Chairman of the European Intelligence Academy (EIA) based in Athens, Greece, and founding editor of the Journal of European and American Intelligence Studies (JEAIS). He is head of the International relations, history, and politics department at Webster University, Athens. Dr. Nomikos directed the Greek team in a consortium of five countries (Northern Ireland- UK, Spain, Germany, Bulgaria, and Israel) and completed successfully a two year (2009-2011) European Union FP7 research project titled: SAFE COMMS on “Counter-terrorism Crisis Communication Strategies for Recovery and Continuity.” Dr. Nomikos was awarded the “2019 Life Achievement for the Development of Intelligence Studies in Europe” by the International Association for Intelligence Education – European Chapter (IAFIE-Europe) conference in Bucharest, Romania. Dr. Nomikos focuses his research on transatlantic relations, European Intelligence Studies, US Foreign Policy, Energy Security, Greek Israeli relations, Greek Indians relations, Illegal migration, transnational crime, jihadi networks, and extremism in the Balkan peninsula. He has written articles for academic intelligence journals and participated in international conferences in EU member-states, the UK, Middle East, USA, India, Taiwan, and the Gulf States.
Dr. Hatidza Jahic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Sarajevo, Department of Economic Theory and Policy, Head of International Office. Ms. Jahic has got a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Zagreb.
Lasse Berntzen is a professor in Information Systems at the University of South-Eastern Norway. His research has focused on the digital society, e-government, e-participation, and “smart cities.” His study examines how cities can become more sustainable and make better decisions using data, analytics, and visualization. He is currently researching how Internet-of-Things and big data can be used in some of the subdomains of smart cities, such as intelligent energy, smart traffic, smart public transportation, smart parking, environmental monitoring, smart waste management, and crime prevention. He is the USN team leader and a work package leader for the ERA-NET Smart-MLA project, aiming to develop more sustainable energy solutions. He currently teaches business analytics, data mining, and IoT.
Dr. Anil Sigdel is the author of the book “India in the Era of China’s Belt and Road Initiative: How Modi Responds to Xi” (October 2020), Rowman and Littlefield, Washington DC. His articles and quotes have appeared in major outlets, including The National Interest, People’s Daily, South China Morning Post, East Asia Forum, Observer Research Foundation, Hudson Institute, TRT World, The Kathmandu Post, and many more. As a scholar of international politics with a focus on different regions of Asia, Dr. Sigdel has given lectures and talks on regional matters at several academic and governmental institutions around the world, including the State Department in Washington DC to National Planning Commission of Nepal, and has had academic and policy interactions on US-China relations with scholars from several universities including the National Defense University, Washington. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Institute of Political Science, University of Vienna, Austria. He has a Master’s degree in International Studies from the Diplomatic School of Madrid, where he was a merit scholar under the Spanish Agency of International Cooperation and Development under the Ministry of External Affairs, Spain. Dr. Sigdel is a native of Nepali. He has the native level of Hindi language, is proficient in German, and is a fluent bilingual: Spanish-English. He also has an intermediate level of Mandarin Chinese.
Professor Dr. Kakhaber Djakeli is a crucial marketing scientist in branding, brand auditing, wine marketing, and political branding. He lives in Georgia at the moment, where after a long career, he continues to be program coordinator of Marketing at International Black Sea University in Tbilisi. He also delivers courses at the Georgian University and the American University for Humanities. Mr. Djakeli frequently gives interviews to Georgian televisions about economic and market developments. He writes a lot of articles and participates in the Georgian community of DAAD Alumni.
Dr. Gvantsa Davitashvili is a Professor at New Vision University, where she teaches Europeanisation and European Integration. She has experience teaching at HEI on national as well as international levels for more than eight years. Prof. Dr. Gvantsa Davitashvili has experience working for protection, promotion, and researching human rights at NHRIs (Public Defender Office of Georgia) for more than five years. She holds a Ph.D. degree in International Relations at the University of Basque Country (Spain) and LL.M in South East European Law and European Integration at Graz (Austria). Her research interests include European integration of the Eastern Partnership counties, external Europeanisation, the democratization of Eastern European countries, foreign policy of the EU. She is an author of several publications, as well as commentaries and studying resources. Besides her native language Georgian, she speaks English, Spanish and Russian.
Mauro Romanelli is Assistant Professor of Organization studies and human resources management at the University of Naples Parthenope, Department of Business and Economics. His research interests include organizational change, ICTs, public organizations, museums, smart and sustainable cities, and communities, digital ecosystems.
Dr. Sanem Dilbaz Sayın holds an PhD. in Educational Administration and Supervision (Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Canakkale). She has been working as an English Language Teacher since 2009. Ms. Sayın is particularly interested in English Language Teaching, Educational Administration, and Teacher Education.
Vera Gallistl, Ph.D., is a sociologist and gerontologist at the University of Vienna. In her work, she studies digital cultures of later life, focusing on older internet users and barriers towards internet use of older adults. In her current research project, she explores the potentials and challenges of artificial intelligence in elder care. She is co-editor of the special issue “Socio-Gerontechnology – The Digital Transformation of Later Life” (Frontiers in Sociology, 2022).
Joshua M. Burgin serves as the New Security Leaders Program coordinator at the Warsaw Security Forum and as an Advisor to the European Academy of Diplomacy. For nearly three decades, Burgin has balanced professional interests in domestic US politics and international affairs, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe.
Burgin is currently writing a book titled “The Primal Scream, Why America’s Broken Politics Elected Donald Trump and why it could happen again.” In the book, Burgin explores how Trump’s 2016 election resulted from failures within America’s political and economic systems rather than the often-cited issues of racism and Russian influence efforts.
Mr. Burgin holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, where he received the Lucius Littauer Award for Academic Excellence and Community Impact. He is married to his wife Jamie, and together they live in Aachen, Germany, with their two children.
As EU Project Manager Trainee, Natalia assists the EBAN EU Project Manager in planning and delivering the activities expected from our European funded projects. As such, she coordinates with startups, investors and other actors involved in workshops, events, and other activities, she participates to consortium meetings and planning of tasks with project partners, she helps with project reporting and with the preparation of new EU Project tenders and proposals. She is graduating from her MSc in Management at Bocconi University where she focused on courses about Entrepreneurship and Sustainability. She gained valuable insights in the startup and sustainability fields also as a member of Cuora Consulting, first as a consultant and then as Head of Project Management. Cuora is a student-run association providing consulting services specifically to sustainable entities or projects.
