Iustina Alina Boitan is Associate Professor at the Department of Money and Banking, Faculty of Finance and Banking, within Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She is member of several professional bodies, such as the Financial and Monetary Research Center (since 2008) and the Monetary Research Center within the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria (research fellow since 2015). She has performed several documentation visits for sharing best practices in teaching and research (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2014; University of Florence, Italy, 2018; University of Geneve, Switzerland, 2018; University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2019; Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, 2019) and ERASMUS+ stages (University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria, 2015; Tashkent Financial Institute, Uzbekistan, 2017; University of Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2018; Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland, 2019). Her research interests focus on financial regulation and supervisory policies, banking systems’ efficiency and competition, assessment of banking systems’ distress, quantitative supervisory tools (such as the development of early warning systems), ethical or socially responsible banks, national promotional banks, crowd funding, social and financial inclusion, sustainable development, migration, labor market risks. She had been member of various research projects obtained through national competition or funded by the business environment.
Kamilla Marchewka-Bartkowiak is Associate Professor, Dr. Hab, Director of the Institute of Finance at Poznań University of Economics and Business, 2016-2019 Dean of the Faculty of Economics, author of books and articles in field of banking, public finance, public debt management, public economy, regulatory economy, expert of finance at the Bureau of Research, the Chancellery of the Sejm (lower house of the Poland’s Parliament), member of Working Group on Economic and Budgetary Affairs in European Centre for Parliamentary Research and Documentation, 2015-2019 member of Supervisory Board and Head of Audit Committee in Centralny Dom Maklerski Pekao S.A. (the biggest brokerage house in Poland).