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.

He received his PhD in Computational Statistics. He is a Associate professor in Statistics at the Università degli Studi del Sannio (Italy) and also a professor in Statistics and Statistics for Business. His research interests focus on Multivariate Statistical Methods with particular attention to
Correspondence Analysis applied to problem of the evaluation of the Customer Satisfaction. He serves on the program and organizing committees of conferences in the field of Multivariate Methods and Decision Theory. He is author of more than 90 conference and high impact factor journal papers as Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Journal of Applied Statistics and Communication in Statistics – Theory and Methods; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. He coordinates several international projects. Actually he’s local coordinator of a Tempus project.

Professor Utkulu is a PhD graduate of Leicester University, Economics Department. He is now a Professor at the Economics Department, Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir. His research interests are international economics, debt issues, trade-related issues, and European economics. He has published widely in international economics, such as trade liberalization, trade and growth, debt and solvency, and European economic integration. He has recently contributed on the fields of environmental economics and circular economics.