Eurasian Business and Economics Perspectives

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hüseyin Bilgin joined Kadir Has University (Turkey) as an assistant professor in 2000. In 2005, he started serving as an associate professor in macroeconomics and became a full professor in the Department of International Economic Integration at Istanbul Medeniyet University in 2011. He taught at Kadir Has University between 2000 and 2011 and served as the head of the Department of International Finance at the same university from 2009 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been teaching at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Istanbul Medeniyet University and served as a part-time professor at Yeditepe University between 2011 and 2014. Professor Bilgin has numerous articles published in reputed international journals indexed by scientific databases, research papers presented at international conferences, and published academic books. He is the founder of the Istanbul Economic Research Association and currently serves as its Chairman. He is also the founder of the international scholarly association EBES (Eurasia Business and Economics Society) and currently serves as the Vice President. He has also been active as a consultant for several institutions, a newspaper columnist, and featured in several television programs.

Hakan Danıs is the Head of Macro Scenario Design at Citi in San Francisco, USA. Dr. Danıs worked as the Director of Economic Scenarios and OpRisk Modeling at MUFG (USA) and as a Senior Economist at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA. He is one of the founders and the first President of EBES. He also worked at Kadir Has University (Turkey) as a research assistant. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of the Eurasian Economic Review (a Springer journal indexed in SCOPUS). He was a guest editor at Emerging Markets Finance & Trade (EMFT) (SSCI) and Singapore Economic Review (SER) (SSCI) multiple times and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Georgia (USA) and M.A. and B.A. degrees in Economics from Marmara University (Turkey).

Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Department of Business Administration at the School of Social Sciences in Reykjavik University (Iceland). Dr. Demir spent six months as a visiting Ph.D. student at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He has taught at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Yeditepe University (part-time), and Istanbul Bilgi University (part-time). Dr. Demir is the conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He serves as an associate editor at the Eurasian Business Review (SSCI) and as a subject editor at the Journal of Multinational Financial Management (SSCI). He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Financial Stability, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, and Tourism Management. His research interests are corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.

Prof. Dr. Zoltán Cséfalvay is the head of the Centre for Next Technological Futures at Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Budapest (Hungary), where he lectures and conducts research on the economic, social, and geopolitical impacts of digitalization, robotization, and artificial intelligence in Europe. Previously, he worked as a senior researcher at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Seville (2019-2020). He served as the ambassador of Hungary to the OECD and UNESCO in Paris (2014-2018) and as Minister of State for Economic Strategy in Hungary (2010-2014). He was a professor of economic geography at Andrássy University Budapest (2002-2010) and has been a professor at Kodolányi János University in Hungary for more than two decades. As a research fellow, he worked in Budapest, Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg, and Cardiff. Recently, he published his latest book, "TECHtonic Shifts," on the current industrial revolution.