Short Biography
Education - Master of Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics; Master of Economics; PhD in Economics.
Since 2012 - Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Technology, Caucasus International University.
Since 2018 - Head of the Doctoral Education Program in Business Administration.
Since 2018 - Accreditation Expert at National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement of Georgia
Since 2019 - Certified reviewer at WoS Publons Academy and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) and the Caucasus International University’s International Journal of Social Sciences.
A certified project manager (PRINCE 2 Certificate # P2R / 165226 issued by APMG - the world-leading accreditation and testing institute) with more than 15 years of working experience in project management for the UNDP, the USAID and the OSGF in Georgia.
I have extensive experience of scientific and pedagogical cooperation with various universities. For years, I delivered lectures at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University. Currently, I am collaborating with TSU and Speyer (Germany) University of Administrative Sciences on a joint English-language master's program in Public Administration as a Visiting Lecturer. I have experience in delivering lectures at foreign universities.
I have been actively involved in scientific research; regularly present research findings to the scientific community through conferences, forums, symposia and seminars both in Georgia and abroad and publish them in scientific journals.
My research interest includes financial education and inclusion, the impact of education on economic development, quality of education and workforce competitiveness, financing for development, etc.
More than 30 research papers are published in different scientific journals.

N.TUBA YILMAZ was born in Istanbul, Turkey, in 1984. She received her B.S. degree in econometrics from Marmara University, Turkey, in 2006 and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in operational research from Marmara University, Turkey, in 2009 and 2015, respectively. During her master’s program, she was a researcher at SRH Hochschule Berlin, Germany, for one year. From 2007 to 2016, she was a research assistant with the Econometrics Department, Marmara University. Since 2016, she has been an assistant professor with the Department of Econometrics at Marmara University. Dr. Yılmaz's research interests include game theory, simulation and stochastic processes.

Kgothatso Shai is a Professor in the Department of Cultural & Political Studies at the University of Limpopo in South Africa. He is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher. He is the current President of the South African Association of Public Administration and Management (SAAPAM). Shai also serves as a member of the National Council of the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS), where he also presents as an immediate past President. Equally important, Shai is an Executive Committee member of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). He was educated at the Universities of Venda and Limpopo, South Africa. Shai is also the recipient of several academic and non-academic awards at the national and international level.

A Political Scientist by training with passion for supervising African-centered Masters and Doctoral students, Shai is also an esteemed political analyst who has presented several papers in national and international conferences in Africa and beyond. His areas of research and teaching interest straddles the subject of African politics and international relations. He has published widely in many (100+) peer reviewed national and international publications. Among other academic milestones, Shai an editor of the SAAPAM Book Series. 

João Félix Pinto Nogueira, PhD in Tax Law, is Professor at the Portuguese Catholic University ("Universidade Católica Portuguesa"). He is Deputy Academic Chairman at IBFD and team manager of IBFD Academic. He is honorary associate professor at the University of Cape Town, South Africa and regular visiting lecturer at several universities. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the World Tax Journal, of the Global Tax Treaty Commentaries, of the Doctoral Series and of the International Tax Studies. He is a member of the list of independent persons of standing of the European Commission and, as such, authorised to serve as arbitrator for the purposes of the EU tax dispute resolution directive. He was a lawyer at one of Portugal's most reputed tax law firms.
His areas of expertise are international and European tax law, fields in which he has published a dissertation and several articles and book chapters. Dr Nogueira has more than twenty years of experience in teaching at both the graduate and post-graduate levels and is currently overseeing several master's courses on EU and international tax law, taught in different languages.
He has extensive experience in supervising academic works (at the master's, doctoral and postdoctoral levels), including several prize-winning theses. He is regularly invited to present at conferences and seminars on both EU and international taxation and is frequently appointed as a national reporter for Portugal. Besides his scientific activities at IBFD, he collaborates actively with research centres in several EU countries. For several years, Dr Nogueira served as co-arbitrator of the IBFD-KU Leuven International and European Tax Moot Court Competition, responsible for drafting the cases. Since 2018, he has been appointed as judge of the final rounds. His experience also comprises governmental consultancy, in which context he has been asked to assess, advise and train several tax authorities, including some of the most advanced in the world. He has lectured or been scientifically active in more than 30 countries in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
He is a member of the EATLP, IFA, IFA Portugal (Associação Fiscal Portuguesa) and IBDT. He is the Vice-President of the AFP / IFA Portugal. He is a member of the Permanent Scientific Committee of IFA Central. He is a member (and the scientific secretary) of the ECJ Task Force of the Confédération Fiscale Européenne. He is also a member of the Executive Board of the ILADT (Directorio). He is one of members of the LOC (Local Organizing Committee) in charge of organizing the 2025 Annual Congress of the International Fiscal Association, which will be held in Lisbon. He is a member of the editorial board and council of several periodicals on international taxation and frequently acts as an external peer reviewer.

Short Biography
Education - Master of Cybernetics and Applied Mathematics; Master of Economics; PhD in Economics.
Since 2012 - Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business and Technology, Caucasus International University.
Since 2018 - Head of the Doctoral Education Program in Business Administration.
Since 2018 - Accreditation Expert at National Center for Educational Quality Enhancement of Georgia
Since 2019 - Certified reviewer at WoS Publons Academy and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research (JEECAR) and the Caucasus International University’s International Journal of Social Sciences.
A certified project manager (PRINCE 2 Certificate # P2R / 165226 issued by APMG - the world-leading accreditation and testing institute) with more than 15 years of working experience in project management for the UNDP, the USAID and the OSGF in Georgia.
I have extensive experience of scientific and pedagogical cooperation with various universities. For years, I delivered lectures at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Ilia State University. Currently, I am collaborating with TSU and Speyer (Germany) University of Administrative Sciences on a joint English-language master's program in Public Administration as a Visiting Lecturer. I have experience in delivering lectures at foreign universities.
I have been actively involved in scientific research; regularly present research findings to the scientific community through conferences, forums, symposia and seminars both in Georgia and abroad and publish them in scientific journals.
My research interest includes financial education and inclusion, the impact of education on economic development, quality of education and workforce competitiveness, financing for development, etc.
More than 30 research papers are published in different scientific journals.

M. Mustafa Erdoğdu is a Professor in the Faculty of Business and Administrative Sciences at Beykoz University. He holds a PhD in Development Economics and an MA in Development Studies from Manchester University and an MA in Public Finance from Marmara University. He is co-chair of the International Conference of Political Economy, Associate Editor of International Journal of Applied Behavioral Economics; Editorial Board Member of Turkish Studies Journal; International Advisory Board member of International Journal of Sustainable Economies Management and some other journals. He has written extensively on economic development and public finance. He is the author of one book, editor of thirteen books, and author of over fifty journal articles and chapters. Erdogdu’s major research areas are economic development, sustainable development, renewable energies, behavioural public finance, financial crises, and immigration