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A scientist with over 50 years of professional experience, including 17 years on managerial positions in business.

Assistant professor emeritus of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW in Warsaw/Poland) and a Senior Research Associate in the College of Business and Economics at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa).

He collaborates with Shanghai Lixin University SLU (Shanghai/China) and Shandong University of Finance and Economics SDUFE (Jinan/China) as a guest professor, and has visited universities in Albania, Belgium, China, Germany, Iran, Italy, Montenegro, Spain, South Africa and the USA with invited lectures and courses.

In the last years (2012-2022), he has authored or co-authored 6 books, more than 80 peer-reviewed papers and chapters (also in WoS and Scopus-listed journals), and delivered more than 120 conference papers. The Best Paper Award Winner at the Pan-African IBC 2022 conference. He has managed 4 research grants funded by Polish Authorities.
ORCID iD: 0000-0021-2810-6654 and nauka-polska.pl/#/profile/scientist?id=22473&_k=o2a68i (ID: 22473)

Director Doctoral School of the University of Szczecin

Department of Support Decision’s Methods and Cognitive Neuroscience

Chair of the scientific committee UNESCO Chair for Social Sustainability

University of Szczecin

Poland

Dr. Mohammad Salih Mustafa is the Head of the International Relations and Diplomacy Department at Tishk International University in Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq, and an Associate Fellow of the British Academy. He holds a PhD in Ethno-Political Studies from the University of Exeter and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. His research interests include Middle Eastern Politics, religious nationalism, Islamism, Kurdish Studies, Kurdistan Region, Muslim Brotherhood, counter terrorism, and security.

Dr. Mustafa has several publications to his credit, including 'Nationalism and Islamism in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: the Emergence of the Kurdistan Islamic Union,' published by Routledge (2020); 'The Anti-Kurdish Thoughts of ISIS,' published in the Review of Middle East Studies (2023); 'The Trajectory and Current State of Intra-Kurdish Politics in the Kurdistan Region, the Role and Influence of Iran and Turkey,' published in the Turkish Journal of Security Studies (2016); and 'Iran's Role in the Kurdistan Region,' published in Aljazeera Centre for Studies (2016).
Scopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/dashboard.uri?origin=searchauthorfreelookup&zone=TopNavBar Researchgate ID: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohammad-Salih-Mustafa Google Scholoar ID: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=zkn_ljoAAAAJ Email: mohammad.salih@tiu.edu.iq

Dr. Ghousia Khatoon is currently working as Professor & Head at the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Administrative Sciences & Economics, Tishk International University, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq. She has worked as an Associate Professor in Prince Sultan University and as an Assistant Professor in Princess Nourah University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. She has to her credit Bachelor’s in Commerce, Master’s in Commerce, Master’s in Business Administration, Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management, Diploma in Management and PhD in Venture Capital Finance (PhD Thesis evaluated by Australian Catholic University, Australia). She has more than two decades of experience in teaching and research. She has authored 18 books and published 40 research articles in the journals of repute including Scopus indexed journals and journals indexed in Web of Science such as WILEY, Inderscience Publishers, Taylor & Francis and MDPI. She is the recipient of Best Paper Award on ‘Strategies for inclusive growth’ at SBJIT, Bangalore, India and Distinguished teacher award from MTC Global. She is also the recipient of MTC Global Outstanding Researcher Award -2022. She has presented research papers in international conferences at China, Spain, Romania, Malaysia, UAE, Jordan and Iraq. She has chaired sessions and delivered keynote address in international conferences and reviewed papers for Springer, Information Sciences Letters (Scopus, Q2) and Eurasian Journal of management and Social Sciences. Her areas of Expertise include Green Finance, Start-Up Finance, FDI, Auditing, IFRS, Forensic Accounting, Financial Literacy, Fintech, Venture Capital, Environmental Accounting, Gender diversity and Corporate Performance. Scopus ID: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57192811206 Researchgate ID: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ghousia-Khatoon-2 Google Scholoar ID: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=ghousia+khatoon&oq= WOS: https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/GVT-6452-2022 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0910-5573 Email: ghousia.khatoon@tiu.edu.iq

WORK EXPERIENCE
1997 – 2001 Assistant lecturer US Faculty of Law and Administration

2001 – 2011 Assistant professor
US Faculty of Law and Administration

2005 – 2008 Deputy Rector for Student Affairs University of Szczecin

2011 – 2012
Senior lecturer
US Faculty of Law and Administration

2013 – CURRENT
Professor University of Szczecin

2020 – CURRENT
Deputy Rector for organization
University of Szczecin

2002 – 2014 Senior lecturer Instytut Administracji i Bezpieczeństwa Narodowego PWSZ w Gorzowie Wielkopolskim

2014 – 2017 Associate professor
PWSZ w Wałczu

2017 – 2020 Head of the medical law department Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1987 – 1992 Master of Law US Faculty of Law and Administration

2001 Doctor of Law US Faculty of Law and Administration

2009 Postgraduate studies - real estate market Faculty of Economic Sciences - University of Szczecin

2009 Postgraduate studies-energy audit of the building Higher School of Management in Warsaw

2012 Professor US Faculty of Law and Administration

2012 Estate Manager

2013 Legal Counsel

SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES:
- Member of International Law Association
- Member of International Association of Consumer Law

HONOURS AND AWARDS
- Rector's award for Academic Merit Years: 2002, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

- Rector's award for Academic organization
Years: 2005, 2006, 2007, 200

In 1999 completed the master's studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, in the field of history, and in 2000 – completed the master’s studies at the Faculty of Law, Canon Law and Administration of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in the field of law. 8.III.2006 – obtaining an academic degree of doctor of legal sciences in the field of law. In 2016 entried on the list of legal advisors of the District Bar Association for Legal Advisors in Lublin.

In 2006 – 30.09.2017 she was the full–time assistant professor at the Department of Civil Proceedings of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin.

From 01.10.2017 - 30.09. 2019 she was full–time professor at the Department of Civil and Labour Law at the Kozminski University in Warsaw and now she is employed as full –time professor of Kozminski University in Warsaw, head of Division of civil procedings, Department of Civil Law.

From 1 February 2013 she was employed as a judge’s assistant in the Civil Chamber, now she is employed as specialist for jurisprudence in the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court. She is the author of numerous studies and monographs. The practical experience resulting from working as an assistant judge in the Supreme Court resulted in the diversity of research conducted by Joanna Studzińska.

The most important research areas, are evidence proceedings, non–litigious proceedings; enforcement proceedings; informatization of civil proceedings; entities in civil proceedings and effective judicial protection in civil proceedings. She participated in numerous scientific conferences, and at many of them she presented papers. She conducted training for legal advisers, bailiffs.

Ph.D. (Summa Cum Laude) in Quantitative Methods and International Economics, University of Illinois Chicago, USA, 1983

M.B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in International Business, De-Paul University of Chicago, USA, 1979

B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Economics, University of Athens, Greece, 1976

Extended Studies:
Prof Dipl in Correspondent Banking, Bankers Trust Corp, New York, USA, 1998
Prof Dipl in Advanced Management Program Bankers, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 1999

Professional Recognition:
Active member, New York Academy of Sciences, January 1998
Man of the Year, American Biographical Institute, New York, 1999
Doctor Honorius Causa, Danube’s University of Galati, Romania, September 2013
Doctor Honorius Causa, University of Craiova, Romania, March 2015
Doctor Honorius Causa, Rostov State University of Economics, Russia, December 2018

Academic Positions:
Professor, Quantitative Methods and International Economics, University of Piraeus, Greece
Visiting Professor, Advanced Quantitative Methods, MBA Program, Hellenic Open University, Greece
European Chair Jean Monnet, European Economic Integration, European Union, Brussels
Affiliate Professor, International Business and Finance, University of Malta
Visiting Professor, Quantitative Analysis and European Integration, University Paris X, France
Visiting Professor, Business Strategy, Neapolis University of Pafos, Cyprus
Visiting Professor, Business Administration, MBA Program, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Visiting Professor, Applied Macroeconomics, MA Program, University of Craiova, Romania
Visiting Professor, Quantitative Financial Analysis, Danube’s University of Galati, Romania
Visiting Professor, Applied Macroeconomics, MA Program, University of Finance and Administration,
Prague, Czech Republic

Expert in the field of finance and business valuation. Over 30 years of experience in business and intellectual property valuation. Ordinary professor at the Department of Finance and Banking in the University of Szczecin. Author of a number of publications. Member of the editorial board of Financial Internet Quarterly. Manager and Principal Investigator in several research projects (eg. “Multifactor model for estimating the cost of equity - operational approach”, “Financial performance versus market valuation of banks in Poland”, “Control premium in the Polish capital market”, “Business Valuation Standards”, “Lack of Marketability Discounts in Business Valuation”). Team leader responsible for developing business valuation standards for the Polish Federation of Appraisers' Associations. Lecturer at numerous courses and conferences, including MBA studies and dedicated courses for company boards, business and property appraisers, financial analysts and accountants. Co-founder and chairman of the Association of Business Appraisers in Poland (SBWPwP). Chief of the MBA Programme in the University of Szczecin. Court expert in the field of business valuation and lost benefits estimation.

Analytics-Based Performance Management LLC
401 Hogans Valley Way
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mobile:/ 919 720 2718 e-mail: gcokins@garycokins.com website: www.garycokins.com

Gary Cokins is an internationally recognized expert, speaker, and author in enterprise and corporate performance management improvement methods and business analytics. He is the founder of Analytics-Based Performance Management, an advisory firm located in Cary, North Carolina at www.garycokins.com . Gary received a BS degree with honors in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Cornell University in 1971. He received his MBA with honors from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management in 1974.

Gary began his career as a strategic planner with FMC’s Link-Belt Division and then served as Financial Controller and Operations Manager. In 1981 Gary began his management consulting career first with Deloitte consulting, and then in 1988 with KPMG consulting. In 1992 Gary headed the National Cost Management Consulting Services for Electronic Data Systems (EDS) now part of HP. From 1997 until 2013 Gary was a Principal Consultant with SAS, a leading provider of business analytics software.

His two most recent books are Performance Management: Integrating Strategy Execution, Methodologies, Risk, and Analytics, and Predictive Business Analytics. His books are published by John Wiley & Sons.

Writing makes me think, and thinking makes me write. It is circular.

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Professor of economic sciences – author and co-author of about 190 publications mainly in the area of applications the quantitative methods in analysis of economic phenomena, in particular on the Capital Market. Rector of the University of Szczecin in 2005-2008 and 2008-2012, Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Szczecin, Head of the Institute of Finance, Head of the Department of Insurance and Capital Markets, The main organizer of cyclic scientific conferences “Capital Market. Effective Investments”, Chair of Organization Committees and member of Programmer Committees of many scientific conferences, Member of the Committee on Finance Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Member of the Council of the Section for Classification and Data Analysis at Polish Statistical Association, Member of the Finance Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences for the first term of office, Member of the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

Professor of Political Science (2005) – with post-doctoral degree (2002), currently professor at the Vistula University in Warsaw, formerly at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow (2010-2017), Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities (2005-2011) and University of Warsaw (1980-2010); Poland; Ph. D. in political science (1985). A scholarship holder of the Finnish Ministry of Education (1991), a graduate of the Summer Institute in the American Political System (Washington D.C., Philadelphia, 1995), and a research fellow of the International Salzburg Seminar (Salzburg, 1996).

Sławomir Chomik M.D., Ph.D. MBA, Entrepreneur. Managing Partner of seed MRC VC fund in life science. The pharmaceutical executive with full P&L responsibility across multiple geographies in the EU and CEE. Broad knowledge of pharmaceutical industry backed by 20 years of experience in managing business growth, strategic marketing, M&A, post-merger integration. Experienced in HQ, Regional and Country management with proven capability of managing people from a diverse cultural background. A motivational leader with a track record of talent recruitment, retention and motivation. Co-owner of startups in e-industry with solid growth performance. M.D., Ph.D., MBA by education. Author of original articles in the medical press. Member of Polish Cardiac Society
and the European Society of Cardiology.

Director, Institute of Management, University of Szczecin
71 004 Szczecin, Poland, Cukrowa 8
ORCID: 0000-0002-4309-7434