Prof. Dr. Adnan Çelik is a faculty member at Selçuk University FEAS / department of Business Administration (https://akademik.yok.gov.tr/AkademikArama/view/viewAuthor.jsp). After graduating from Istanbul School of Finance (1981), started working in the Ministry of Finance. Graduated from Çukurova University FEAS / department of Business Administration in 1989. In 1990, became a research assistant at Selçuk University FEAS / department of Business Administration. In 1995, received doctorate in Management & Organization. In 1996, appointed as a faculty member at KSU FEAS / department of Business Administration. Completed military service as an academic member in the Ankara -  KHO / department of Systems Administration. In 2001, became an associate professor of management & organization. In the spring semester of 2004, participated at New York - SUNY University / ESOL program. Between 2004 and 2006, served as a third-party observer in the World Bank's BTC (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) project. Between 2006 and 2009, held consultancy positions at organizations such as TÜBİTAK, TESK, and KOSGEB. Became a professor of management and organization in 2007. Served as department head and vice dean. Assumed the directorship of the University SEM. Appointed as the rapporteur of the ethics committee. Served as dean of the Faculty of Business Administration from 2010 to 2013. In the spring semester of 2013, appointed as a visiting professor at London-Brunel University. Holds memberships on the editorial boards of national and international academic institutions. Between 1996 and 2026, advisored a total of 75 Master's & PhD theses. There are numerous academic studies, both individual and “team-based”. Prof. Çelik has received 12 awards from academic institutions and civil society organizations. Continues to teach various undergraduate and graduate courses. Also, provides entrepreneurship courses at KOSGEB, ISKUR, and municipalities.

Maciej Rzewuski is the Head of the Department of Civil Procedure and Legal Protection at the Faculty of Law and Administration, the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn; a judge at the Court of Appeal in Olsztyn; a lecturer in attorneys’ and legal advisers’ training; he authored over 250 scientific publications on civil law and civil procedure; he specializes in inheritance law, family law and private international law; by working in both capacities, i.e., as an academic teacher and a judge, he skillfully combines theory with the practical application of law; adjudicating in the Court of Appeal, he deals with problems related to the topic of the present study on a daily basis.

Dr Iwona Florek is a legal scholar and Vice-Rector for Science, Evaluation of Education and International Cooperation at WSGE University of Applied Sciences (Alcide De Gasperi) in Józefów, Poland. 

Her research lies where human rights, public administration and socio-economic development meet. Her main areas are human rights in tourism and sustainable tourism, including the legal tools for managing overtourism, consumer and competition law, labour law and diversity management, and the right to education. Her recent work covers human rights in the digital age: cyberspace, neurorights and cognitive freedom, digital exclusion, and the legal implications of the metaverse for higher education. She has written more than 20 journal articles and nearly 30 chapters in edited volumes, and has co-edited over ten international collective monographs.

She has done research stays at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (Spain) and the University of Bari Aldo Moro (Italy). She has lectured at many European and Turkish universities, including Milton Friedman University in Budapest. She is academic coordinator of the Erasmus+ CBHE project Research Universities and secretary of the international research group Eurofur. Since 2017 she has organised an annual international human rights conference. She sits on the editorial and advisory boards of several journals, including the Journal of Modern Science. From 2023 to 2026 she held the Minister of Education and Science Scholarship for Outstanding Young Scientists.

Mohammad Abuhjeeleh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Travel and Tourism, Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Yarmouk University, Jordan. He holds a PhD in Tourism and Hospitality and has more than twenty years of professional experience in tourism and tour guiding. His academic and professional interests include MICE tourism, event management, tour guiding, destination marketing, tourism governance, sustainable tourism, and digital transformation in tourism. He has also held academic administrative positions at Yarmouk University and has participated in tourism-related professional and advisory activities in Jordan. His current research focuses on business events, destination development, tour guiding, tourism resilience, and the application of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in tourism and hospitality.

Zijad Džafić is a Full Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Tuzla, located in the third-largest city in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He has over twenty years of experience in academia and has held the title of Full Professor since February 2017. Prior to this appointment, he served as Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in the field of Economic Theory and Policy.

He completed a postgraduate specialization in Italy and gained international academic experience through the Erasmus program at the University of Graz in Austria. He also participated in academic study visits to the University of Vienna and the University of Leoben.

His teaching and research interests include microeconomics, the economics of entrepreneurship, sustainable development economics, and the history of economic thought. From 2010 to 2014, he served as Vice-Dean for Research and Science at the Faculty of Economics.

Professor Džafić is the author or co-author of five books and has published more than seventy scientific and professional articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. He has presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. He has supervised fifteen master’s theses and four doctoral dissertations, and has acted as a principal investigator or team member in eight scientific research projects.

In addition to his academic work, he has served as editor for several scientific conference proceedings. He currently holds the position of Editor-in-Chief of Economic Review – Journal of Economic and Business, an academic journal published by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tuzla.