Junus Ganiev received his M.S. and PhD degree in Economics from the Kyrgyz - Turkish Manas University. He carried out his master’s thesis on inflation dynamics and doctoral thesis on corruption. He conducts research on monetary policy, international economic relations, economic growth and development. He has attended international conferences in many countries. He has journal articles, book chapters, books, conference papers. He is a full-time Assistant Professor at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management.
Damira Baigonushova is assistant professor at Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University, Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management. Baigonushova received his M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Economics from the Kyrgyz - Turkish Manas University. She carried out her doctoral thesis on reasons and problems of twin deficits in the economy of Kyrgyzstan. Research interests are in the fields of international trade, remittances, external debt and economic growth. She has publications in national and international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. ORCID: 0000-0002-9740-0021 (Djal, Campus of Chyngyz Aitmatov, Bishkek, 720038, Kyrgyzstan, +996779327811, damira.baigonushova@manas.edu.kg)
Nataliia Krasnokutska is a postdoctoral researcher at Comillas Pontifical University in Madrid, Spain. She served as Director of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Economics, Management, and International Business for two years and as Head of the Management Department at the National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute" (Ukraine) for seven years. In 2011, she earned her Doctor of Science (DSc) degree in Economics.
Her research interests span economics and management, focusing on corporate social responsibility, sustainability management, the stakeholder approach to decision-making, and performance management.
Professor Krasnokutska is the author and co-author of over 200 papers in economics and management. As of 2024, her work has received more than 3,170 citations on Google Scholar. She has also delivered numerous invited talks and guest lectures through the Erasmus program.
Mehmet Asutay is a Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy & Finance at the Durham University Business School, and the Director of the Durham Centre in Islamic Economics and Finance.
Mehmet’s teaching, research, publication, and supervision of research is all in Islamic moral economy/Islamic economics, Islamic political economy, Islamic finance and banking, Islamic governance and management and the Middle Eastern political economies.
His articles on his research interest have appeared in various international academic journals and professional magazines. He has also published manuscripts and edited books on aspects of Islamic moral economy and Islamic finance, the latest of which are: A Model for Islamic Development: An Approach in Islamic Moral Economy (with S. Jan, 2019), Mapping the Risks and Risk Management Practices in Islamic Banking (with W. Eid, 2019).
Mehmet's recent research includes the construction of Islamic moral economy and Islamic political economy; and their articulation in economic and sustainable development. In addition, his research focused on locating Islamic banking and finance within the expressed ideals of Islamic moral economy by essentialising sharing and collaborative economy nature of Islamic finance. Mehmet is also involved in empirical research in various aspects and dynamics of Islamic banking and finance as well as examining the political economy determinants and consequences of various Islamic finance industry development models.
Mehmet has acted as consultant to COMCEC (part of OIC), CIBAFI and UNDP-IICPSD on various projects, who was also a member of Board of Directors of Albaraka Turk Islamic Bank from 2018-2020.
Mehmet is the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Islam and Society, the International Journal of Islamic Economics and Finance Studies, and the Review of Islamic Economics. Mehmet is also a Board Member of the International Association for Islamic Economics.
His profile: https://www.durham.ac.uk/business/our-people/mehmet-asutay/
Olga Nosova is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Public Governance and Business at the Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius, Lithuania from August 2023. She worked as the Professor of the Department Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship at V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is the member of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy, Regional Science Association International, Lithuanian Scientific Society. Her research interests are focused in the areas of foreign direct investment, corporate governance, system transformation and regional integration.
She was a research scholar at the Kennan Institute for Advanced Studies, Woodrow Wilson International Centre in Washington, DC in 1997, “Contemporary Issues Program” in Portland State University in 2004.
A Ukrainian citizen, she received her PhD in Economics in 1992 and Habilitation in Economics from V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University in 2002. She successfully graduated the Master Program in Applied Economics at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna, and took part in various economic programs in Hebrew University, Central European University, Eurasia Foundation and etc.
During 1998-2000 she participated in the joint Belgium-Ukrainian project in support new educational program in Ukraine. She was as Visiting Professor at the Portland State University, Free University Berlin, University Potsdam, and the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).