Abdylmenaf Bexheti is an Academician and Full Professor of Public Finance and Macroeconomics at the Faculty of Business and Economics, South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia. Dr. Bexheti has published six books as a sole author and several books as co-author, more than 65 research papers, 55 projects, and more than 250 analysis and columns in different newspapers. During the period 1996–1998, Dr. Bexheti has been, firstly a Minister for Development and then a Minister for Transport and Communication in the Government of Republic of Macedonia. He is also a full member of Macedonian Academy of Science since 2012 and Correspondent member of Academy of Arts and Science of Republic of Kosovo from 2021. His recent books are Public Finance (2nd edition), Economic Development (special chapter) and Economic Thinking. From 2018 he is Rector of the South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia. From 2023 he is a President of the Interuniversity Conference in the Republic of North Macedonia.
Léo-Paul Dana is a graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal. He began lecturing at Concordia University in 1984, taught at McGill from 1992 to 1997 and subsequently at INSEAD. Formerly tenured at the University of Canterbury, he became full professor of entrepreneurship at Montpellier Business School. He is now Visiting Professor at LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland and Professor at Ecole de commerce Paris - ICD Business School. He has an extensive research background studying entrepreneurship in different cultures and has produced 65 books and 365 articles appearing in a variety of journals including: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of World Business, Small Business Economics and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.