Hasnan Baber is an assistant professor of management, strategy, and entrepreneurship at the American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE. He has received a Ph.D. degree in management studies from Woosong University, Daejeon, South Korea, and two master’s degrees in business administration and public administration. He was awarded as a meritorious student during his doctoral program. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 research articles indexed and listed in Scopus, SSCI, and ABDC. He has consistently been recognized as one of the top 2% of scientists by Stanford University for three consecutive years (2022-2024). Additionally, he co-edited a book on alternative finance that was published by Routledge in 2024. He is a guest editor, an associate editor, an editorial board member, and an advisor for various reputed journals. His areas of research are crowdfunding, FinTech, entrepreneurship, sustainability, technology adoption, and digitalization.
Mina Fanea-Ivanovici received her Ph.D. degree in economics in 2010. She has a master’s degree in finance and management controlling with the Université d’Orléans. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in business administration at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies and in business administration and management at the Université Paris XII Val-de-Marne. She is currently an associate professor in the Department of Economics and Economic Policies at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Her main research interests revolve around areas such as creative economy, creative industries, cultural economy, crowdfunding, digitalization, knowledge management, intercultural dialogue, and intercultural competencies. She has published numerous articles and books and was a member of five research projects and director of one research grant. In 2016, she worked as an independent expert in charge of drafting and revisiting Romania’s Strategy for Culture and National Heritage.