Invited speakers

Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente

University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Daniel Balsalobre-Lorente (daniel.balsalobre@uclm.es) is PhD in Economics and Associate Professor (Tenure) in the Department of Applied Economics I, at the University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. At the academic and research level, Daniel Balsalobre is an expert in public finance, energy economics, economic growth and environment, tourism, and innovation and globalization. In recent years I have published more than 100 studies in journals and book chapters of reputed prestige and international scientific impact; including Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Resources Policy, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Journal of Cleaner Production, Sustainability, Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Energies, and Journal of Public Affairs, among others. Professor Balsalob recurrently serves as editor-in-chief of Evaluation Review (SAGE) and associate editor at Heliyon (Elsevier), Environment, Development and Sustainability (Springer). He is also guest editor for Renewable Energy (Elsevier), Utilities Policy (Elsevier), Energy Sources Part B (Taylor), Sustainability (MDPI), Energies (MDPI), among others; also being an expert reviewer of more than 200 articles for highly indexed journals and handbooks. As a result of his academic career, he currently accumulates more than 5500 citations in google scholar and h-index 37 entered the International Ranking elaborated by Stanford University for those top2% Researchers and 2022 Ranking Clarivates Highly Cited Author.

Gabriela A. Oanta

University of A Coruna, Spain

Gabriela Oanta (gabriela.oanta@udc.es) is Associate professor (accredited “Professor”) of public international law and international relations, University of A Coruña (Spain). She is also holder of the Jean Monnet Chair “European Union law of the sea”, co-financed by the European Union (https://www.udc.es/catedrajeanmonnet_derechouemar) and director of the University Institute of European Studies “Salvador de Madariaga” within the University of A Coruña (https://www.udc.es/iuee). Dr. Gabriela Oanta activates as co-convener of the Interest Group on the Law of the Sea (SEALAW IG) within the European Society of International Law (ESIL), as well as founding member of the Interest Group on International Health Law within the same Association.She is also member of the Global Network for Human Rights and the Environment (https://gnhre.org/). She has research periods at Columbia University, The Hague Academy of International Law, The Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (Utrecht University), Università LUISS Guido Carli (Rome), FAO (Rome). In recent years, her teaching and research activity has focused on public international law and European Union law, with special emphasis on international organizations, the law of the sea, food safety, as well as the binomial “business and human rights”. From the most recent publications: (with J.M. Sobrino Heredia) Las vías de control judicial aplicables al Acuerdo de comercio y cooperation entre la Unión Europea y el Reino Unido (2021); (with J.A. Fernandes Salvador et al.) Artificial Intelligence and the fisheries sector (European Parliament, 2022); (with B. Sánchez, eds.) Irregular Migrations in Europe: A Perspective from the Sea Basins (2022). Dr. Gabriela Oanta was invited professor by Widener University Delaware Law School (2017 and 2018), Università degli Studi di Salerno (2019) and Università degli Studi di Perugia (2020). She sustained conferences and lectures at different Universities in Armenia, France, Italy, Great Britain, Romania, Spain and the Netherlands.

Raimi Lukman

University Brunei Darussalam, Brunei

Professor Lukman Raimi holds the position of Program Coordinator for Entrepreneurship at the esteemed School of Business and Economics, University Brunei Darussalam. His previous roles encompassed Chair of Entrepreneurship, Coordinator of the Graduate Program at SBE, and Associate Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the American University of Nigeria. Dr. Raimi’s academic journey culminated in the acquisition of a PhD in Entrepreneurship and CSR from the prestigious Leicester Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
His multifaceted expertise as an Entrepreneurship Educator, Activator, and Facilitator was honed through rigorous training at the distinguished Entrepreneurship Development Institute (EDI) in Ahmedabad, India, facilitated under the aegis of the World Bank Step B project. Additionally, he engaged in specialized training in Entrepreneurship Education for Employability at Pan Atlantic University in Lagos, Nigeria, facilitated by the esteemed British Council. An alumnus of Cumberland Lodge in Windsor, UK, Dr. Raimi’s participation in the Residential Mentoring program in 2014 further enriched his academic journey. He also participated in the Experiential Classroom XX for Entrepreneurship Educators at the University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida, USA. Notably, he presently presides as the President of the Global Academy of Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Dr. Raimi’s research interests traverse diverse realms of entrepreneurship, encompassing Enterprise Education, Halal Entrepreneurship, Corporate Leadership and Governance, Medical Entrepreneurship, Space Tourism Entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability Issues in Entrepreneurship, Innovation Management, and Risk Growth Strategies.

Valentina Ndou

University of Salento, Lecce, Italy

Valentina Ndou is Associate Professor of Management Science and Engineering at the Department of Engineering for Innovation – University of Salento (Lecce, Italy) and PhD advisor. She is certified associate professor with more than 20 years of experience with European, international and national research projects. She has extensive experience in teaching and education in subjects related to e business, Digital transformation, Entrepreneurship education, project management, innovative management of Tourism systems, developing countries. She serves as expert for project evaluation for different science and research funds (e.g. Lithuania council of science, Serbia Science fund); She served as senior international consultant of UN IOM organization for assisting Albanian Ministry of Education and sports and the office of negotiation in the EU. By conducting research and reporting she has authored more than 50 papers published on leading international journals such as Technology Forecasting & Social Change, Management Science; Current issues in tourism. Co-author and co-editor of different books. She is appointed as advisory expert of the International Academic council of World Tourism Forum Institute. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Contamination Lab of the University of Salento, the extra-curricular laboratory that aims to spread the culture of entrepreneurship in young students. She served as mentor for different development of innovative entrepreneurial projects, leading them toward obtaining awards (such as Startup Puglia award 2018 or ‘Best Ecological Transition Project’ in 2022).

Gagan Deep Sharma

Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

Dr. Gagan Deep Sharma currently works as a Professor in Management at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. He holds PhD in Management and Masters in Philosophy and Commerce. He has an academic experience of over eighteen years. He also holds the position of Associate Director, Office of International Affairs of the University. He is the Associate Editor of ‘Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management’, ‘Journal of Public Affairs’, and ‘Corporate Governance’. Dr Sharma is the subject editor for ‘Social Sciences and Humanities Open’. He is the guest editor for ‘Resources Policy’, ‘Venture Capital’, ‘Energy Sources, Part B: Economics, Planning, and Policy’, ‘Sustainability’, ‘Frontiers in Environmental Science’, ‘Frontiers in Psychology’, ‘Annals of Financial Economics’, World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management, and Sustainable Development’, and ‘International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies’.

He holds editorial responsibilities at renowned journals including ‘International Journal of Emerging Markets’, ‘Frontiers in Psychology’, ‘Frontiers in Environmental Sciences’, ‘World Review of Entrepreneurship, Management and Sustainable Development’, and ‘International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies’. He has visited Japan, Poland, UK, Canada, China, USA, Thailand, Tanzania, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia, Belgium, and Germany for academic purposes. Current areas of his research interest include Sustainable & holistic development, Green finance, Neuro finance, and Economics of Happiness. He has been keenly involved in the propagation of ‘Human Values and Professional Ethics’ education across India.

Boris Kuzman

Institute for Agricultural Economics, Belgrade, Serbia

Prof. Dr. Boris Kuzman (kuzmanboris@yahoo.com) is assistant director at the Institute for Agricultural Economics in Belgrade. He also teaches at several faculties in the Republic of Serbia and the region on master’s and doctoral studies. Prof. Dr. Boris Kuzman graduated, Foreign and Domestic Trade program (Faculty of Trade and Banking, Belgrade) and Investments program (Faculty of Technical Sciences, Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad). He obtained the Master’s degree in narrow scientific field (marketing and marketing of agricultural food products) and PhD degree in field of science (markets and marketing of agricultural food products), Faculty of Agriculture Novi Sad, University of Novi Sad.
In addition to the above, in the work of Prof. Dr Boris Kuzman should especially emphasize the projects on organization and start-up of the APV Development Fund, a series of presentations of Vojvodina’s economy, active participation in the development of the development strategy of the Municipality of Beočin, participation in the development of the Belgrade agricultural development strategy, activities in the development of an action plan for the cross-border cooperation program.
Dr. Boris Kuzman served as a member in different entities like (the Supervisory Board of the Center for Social Work in Novi Sad, Assembly of the Development Fund of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, working group for the promotion of rural tourism and rural development at the Ministry of Trade and Tourism of the Republic of Serbia, Council of the Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun in front of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, Board of Directors of the Institute for Agricultural Economics, Belgrade, College of Business, Novi Sad, in front of the APV Government). In addition, Dr. Boris Kuzman was the chairman of the supervisory board of PE Fruška Gora National Park. Dr. Boris Kuzman is a member of the European Association of Agrarian Economists the Society of Agrarian Economists of Serbia (DAES), the Scientific Society of Agrarian Economists of the Balkans NDAEB (Balkan Scientific Association of Agricultural Economics-BSAAE), the Balkan Association for Environmental Protection (Balkan Environmental Association – B.EN.A.) and the European Association of Agrarian Economists.

Umer Shahzad

Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Anhui, China

Umer Shahzad currently works as senior researcher and Assistant Professor in Anhui University of Finance and Economics. His research interests include capital flows, energy economics and sustainability. Dr. Umer current research is focused on environmental aspects of energy, climate change and international trade. He has published several impact factors papers and has been a peer reviewer for many international journals. He is very motivated researcher and like to have cross-country research collaboration with well-known researchers. Dr Umer completed his PhD in economics from School of Economics, Shandong University during 2016 to 2020. While the Master of Commerce during 2011-2015, was completed from the prestigious university of Pakistan (University of the Punjab Lahore). He has worked as visiting professor at University of the Punjab from 2015 to 2016 and taught several finance and commerce related courses such as financial reporting standards, business management, research methods. He has worked in University of Bucharest Romania.

Mahta SAREMI

University of Tehran

Mahta Saremi has a PhD in Environmental Planning from the University of Tehran. She has done research in the field of tourism planning, management, design and modelling tourism behaviour and has presented national and international papers. She has also done research for World Heritage Sites for their development with limiting the negative impacts of unmanaged visitations. She has also worked on the intangible aspect of WHS. She has obtained two master’s degrees in environmental management and environmental design and engineering. Her BSc was in Environmental Engineering. She has done research in the field of sustainable development. She has work experience with the UNDP and Department of Environment on the subject of Environmental Impact Assessment in Iran. She has been one of the main members of the Sport and Environment Commission of the National Olympic Committee in Iran. She has also worked with different NGOs as well as organizers of various conferences and forums. Her recent research work is on new technologies for tourism development.

Mihail Vincențiu Ivan

Spiritual Monetary Program – A Mixture of Creative Money, Emotional Credit and Mental Bank

Mihail Vincenţiu Ivan got his Ph. D. in economic sciences in 1999 and is an Associate professor working with the Faculty of Economic Sciences at Petroleum Gas University of Ploiesti, holds lectures in the Academy of Economic Studies and the Romanian – American University in Bucharest and activated more than 10 years as a researcher in the Centre for Financial and Monetary Research „Victor Slăvescu”, part of the Romanian Academy.

He has published in the economics and finance-monetary field as author or co-author, since 1997, 15 books in prestigious publishing houses, over 70 articles and studies in professional journals and has participated with over 30 public presentations in conferences, symposia, and roundtables both at home and abroad.  Mihail’s biography was published in “Who is Who”, the Encyclopaedia of Romanian Celebrities, IVth Edition (2009). His ideas and research in monetary matters combined in a harmonious way with his preoccupations with the spiritual realm and subtle energy, creating courses both theoretical and practical, for those who wish to attain a state of inner wellbeing and aim to manifest it in external reality for their own benefit or the benefit of others.  Mihail is the kind of person oriented towards solutions, because every problem has a solution and that, once identified, means evolution.