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Swiss-Polish economist, professor at Fribourg University, where he occupies the Chair of International Strategy and Competition, head of the “Observatoire de la Finance” in Geneva, founder of the Institute of Economic Research Eco Diagnostic. An expert on behalf of international organizations such as OECD and UNCTAD, he also conducts studies of Switzerland’s economic fabric. He is the initiator and Vice-President of AREF (Association for the Renewal of Research and Teaching in Economics and Finance).

Hochschule Luzern and ASCENT AG

As a specialist for the renewal of didactics in economics, he recognizes the value of films to affect the viewers, provoke discussion and sensitize to the importance of economic issues. As a business consultant, he has the role of an interface between internationalizing Swiss companies and the economic environment of East and Central European countries.
www.michaelderrer.info

Vice-rector of the University of Bucharest beginning with 2011 and dean of the Faculty of Business and Administration between 2005 and 2011, Professor Magdalena Iordache Platis, Ph.D. is specialised in economy, business administration and marketing, as she is an active professor with over 25 years of experience in higher education teaching.

Christian Năsulea is a lecturer at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest, where he teaches Global Economics, Globalism and Globalisation and other economics-related subjects. He is an associated lecturer at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, where he teaches Cross-Cultural Management in English and Business Economics in French. He is the executive director of The Institute for Economic Studies – Europe and an affiliated researcher with the Institut de Recherches Economiques et Fiscales.
He has a PhD in Management and his main fields of scientific interest are: public policy, political and commercial negotiation in international relations, behavioural economics, and the economic impact of technology.

Antonio Momoc is a Communication and PR specialist, director of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Communication, associate professor at the University of Bucharest and PhD in Sociology. He is also a consultant in reputation management and public speaking trainer for commercial and political clients.
Awarded as the Bologna Professor of 2017 by the National Alliance of Students’ Organizations, Antonio Momoc holds several degrees in Communication Studies, PR and Journalism and obtained over the years a series of international scholarships: a scholarship at the Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (2004), a post-PhD European scholarship (2010-2013), including a mobility period at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali “Guido Carli” from Rome, Scuola Superiore di Giornalismo “Massimo Baldini”, and a SUSI scholarship (2013) at Ohio University, E. W. Scripps College of Communication, USA.
Author of the books Comunicarea 2.0 [Communication 2.0] (Adenium, 2014), Capcanele politice ale sociologiei interbelice, Școala gustiană între carlism și legionarism [The Political Snares of Interwar Sociology: The Gusti School between Carlism and Legionarism] (Curtea Veche, 2012), and coordinator of the volumes Activiștii mărunți [The Small Activists] (Curtea Veche, 2007) and Bișnițari, descurcăreți, supraviețuitori [Black marketers, shifters, survivors] (Curtea veche, 2013).

Cătălin Grădinaru is a tutor at the Business and Administration Faculty belonging to the University of Bucharest, Romania, since 2012. His academic interests lie in the topics he is teaching: Introduction to Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Services Marketing and Marketing Simulations. Also related to his professional interests, his PhD in Economics is noteworthy of mentioning: he graduated the School of Advanced Studies of the Romanian Academy. He is also a member of the board of directors at the EFdeN NGO (started in 2013), endeavor aimed at developing a solar house in order to represent Romania at the Solar Decathlon International Competition. The EFdeN house is now the first Comfort Research Center in the country.

Emanuel Mihail Socaciu is an associate professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Philosophy. He has got his PhD in philosophy in 2008, with an applied ethics thesis on the topic of property restitution in post-communist Romania. In his 2014 book “A cui este casa mea? Preliminarii la o etica a restituției” (“Who is the Owner of my House? Blueprint for an Ethics of Restitution”) he proposed a conceptual and procedural tool for the moral assessment of restitutive policies (“the Popperian test for restitution”).
Socaciu is the co-founder and current director of the Research Center in Applied Ethics at the University of Bucharest (www.ccea.ro). His current research interests lay broadly within the areas of moral philosophy, applied ethics and the management of ethics in organizations. He is writing on topics such as moral bioenhancement, the moral foundations of intellectual property, the ethics of technology and ethics of science.
Socaciu has also done consulting and advocacy work for private and public organizations in Romania, helping them draft their codes of ethics, design and implement an ethical infrastructure and enhance ethical culture. He is a member of the Research Ethics Committee at the University of Bucharest (an IRB-type body).

Marian Popescu is Professor of the University of Bucharest, founder and in charge with CARFIA (Center of Action, Resources, Training for Academic Integrity of the University of Bucharest – www.carfia.unibuc.ro). He is supervisor of doctoral thesis for Theatre and Performing Arts at the University “Babes-Bolyai” in Cluj. Writer, theatre critic, expert in performing arts, communication, censorship, cultural policies, translator and editor, he has worked in the film and book industry. He co-directed a 10 min film based on Forrest Gump with a business people team as an extra-curricular activity of Erisma creative leadership program. Author of seven books on performing arts, he has developed in the last years a strong interest in academic ethics and integrity. His current research interests include Voice, Speech, and the Counter-culture of plagiarism in digital era.