Dr. Mato Njavro serves as the Dean of Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM) in Croatia. He also teaches at the Luxembourg School of Business and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. With a diverse academic and professional background, Dr. Njavro has worked at the St. Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, in Singapore, where he served as a senior research fellow. He was also a lecturer at the Singapore Management University, where he taught a course on China’s economic development.

Prior to joining the University of St. Gallen and Singapore Management University, Dr. Njavro was a visiting research fellow at Harvard University’s Institute for Quantitative Social Sciences (IQSS). Dr. Njavro authored and co-authored several papers and case studies published by the Harvard Business School publishing. Dr. Njavro has earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree in economics and finance from Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. He earned his PhD in finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. His professional experience includes working in the investment banking divisions of Lehman Brothers and Nomura in London. (source: https://zsem.hr/en/dr-sc-mato-njavro/)

Assoc. Prof. Kristijan Krkač, PhD (b. 1970) has been a tenured professor at the Zagreb School of Economics and Management (ZSEM) since 2003. Before joining ZSEM, he was an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Zagreb (1996-2017). He was a visiting professor in France 2010-2014 (Science Po Lille), in Latvia (RISEBA University) and in Italy (H-FARM College).

His research interests are mainly in the areas of business ethics, CSR and sustainability, and in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. To date, he has published 17 authored and 11 edited books (textbooks, conference and symposium proceedings, journal issues and two encyclopedias as a section editor). He is the author and co-author of more than 150 original scientific, professional and review articles, book chapters and encyclopedia articles. He has published with Palgrave MacMillan, De Gruyter, Springer, Routledge, Ashgate, Emerald, Rowman & Littlefield and the Austrian Society of Ludwig Wittgenstein. His books in English include: A Custodian of Grammar, Essays on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Morphology (Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012), Conversations on Ethics and Business. A Guide to Thinking about Workplace Ethics (with R. Richards, and B. Jalšenjak, Cambridge: Ethics International Press, 2023) and Alone amidst the ruins of the future – Philosophy and unsustainability of multiple simultaneous disasters (Zagreb: MATE, 2025).

Dr. Markus Raueiser is Director of Teaching and Learning and Professor of International Business at CBS International Business School in Cologne, Germany. Over the past two decades, he has held several academic and management positions at CBS, including Dean and Vice President for International Relations.

He teaches Strategic Management at Bachelor’s, Master’s, and MBA levels, with particular expertise in interactive and action-learning formats. He also serves as Visiting Professor at Antwerp Management School and has professional experience with Deutsche Bank and KPMG.

His research focuses on higher education, university management, strategy, and organisational design. Dr. Raueiser also has extensive experience in accreditation and quality assurance, including institutional accreditation processes such as IACBE and AACSB, as well as serving as a reviewer and assessor in accreditation procedures.

Prof. Maha Mahdi Al-Khaffaf is Professor of Management Information Systems and Director of International Relations at Applied Science Private University (ASU), Jordan. She has extensive academic and leadership experience in Jordanian higher education and served as Head of the Management Information Systems Department for more than five years.

Her research interests focus on artificial intelligence in higher education, digital transformation, intelligent decision support, and the responsible and ethical use of emerging technologies, particularly in teaching, research, and academic decision-making.

Throughout her academic career, she has held several leadership positions, including Director of the Planning and Development Center and Director of the Consultation and Training Center, reflecting her experience in institutional development, strategic planning, and professional training.

Dr. Andrej Novak is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Mathematics and Economics at the University of Vienna and a Professor at the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. He holds both a Master’s and a PhD in Applied Mathematics, as well as a medical degree from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine, where he graduated with a thesis on cellular models in neuroscience.

His research focuses on applied mathematics and computer science, with particular interests in partial differential equations, optimization theory, medical image processing, and the use of interpretable predictive analytics in managing cardiac pathologies.

Throughout his academic career, Dr. Novak has led and coordinated more than ten university courses in mathematics, quantitative methods, and computer science at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has also contributed to curriculum development for several computer science programs and has taught quantitative methods across multiple institutions.

He has been actively involved in numerous national and international projects, serving as both a researcher and a member of advisory boards. As a principal investigator, he has led scientific projects and collaborated with international companies specializing in algorithmic solutions for image processing and computationally intensive problems.