Prof. Bruno S. Sergi is an Instructor at Harvard University, where he is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for International Development and an Associate at the Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is a Full Professor at the University of Messina, Italy. His research and teaching interests are tied to the broader topic of the economics of emerging markets. In addition, he is Co-director of the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development (LEAD), a research laboratory based in Cambridge (USA) that aims to generate and share knowledge about entrepreneurship, development, and sustainability.
Prof. Dr. Elena G. Popkova, Doctor of Economics, is a Director of the Laboratory of Scientometrics and International Rankings at Armenian State University of Economics (Yerevan, Armenia), Professor of RUDN University (Moscow, Russia). She is the author of more than 300 publications in Scopus (h-index: 40). She is also editor of more than 50 books and a large number of special issues of international peer-reviewed scientific journals. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging Economies and the International Journal for Quality Research. She is the Recipient of Highly Commended Paper Award for the journal On the Horizon for 2020 (Emerald). Elena G. Popkova is Honoured worker of science and high technologies of the Russian Federation and Honoured professor of Osh State University (Osh, Kyrgyzstan). She is among Scopus top 2% of most-cited scholars of the world in 2019-2024.
Ainura A. Adieva is the rector of International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. In 1991, she has graduate from Frunze Polytechnic Institute (specialty “Economics and management). She received her Ph.D. in 1996 and Doctor of economics – in 2012. She received the academic title of associate professor of economics in 2005 and professor of economics in 2016. She is the author of more than sixty scientific works, including four monographs. She supervised fourteen Ph.D.’s in economics. Ainura A. Adieva is the member of the Council for science, innovations and investments under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Nurgul K. Atabekova
Nurgul K. Atabekova is Vice-Rector for Science and Innovation at the International University of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. She is a PhD in Law, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor of Law and Linguistics.She is the author of more than seventy publications, including two monographs and twelve educational and methodological works.
From 2018 to 2022 Nurgul K. Atabekova was a member of the Scientific and Technical Council of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, currently she is the Chair of the Expert Council on Social and Humanitarian Sciences.
Nurgul K. Atabekova is a member of the editorial board of scientific journals
1) “Bulletin of Kyrgyzpatent: Issues of Intellectual Property and Innovation” of the State Agency of Intellectual Property and Innovation under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Kyrgyz Republic,
2) “Bulletin of the Legal Academy” of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation,
3) “Bulletin of the Constitutional Court of the Kyrgyz Republic”.