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Milford Bateman
Milford Bateman is a Visiting Professor of Economics, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia, Adjunct Professor of Development Studies at St Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada, and Associate Researcher, FINDE, Fluminense Federal University, (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Dr Bateman obtained his PhD from the University of Bradford (UK) in 1993. From 1991 to 2000 Dr Bateman held a tenured position as Assistant Professor then Associate Professor in East European Economics at the University of Wolverhampton. As a freelance consultant from 2000, he has worked on local economic development projects for almost all of the major international development agencies with assignments in the Middle East, China, Africa and Latin America.
Dr Bateman has also published widely on the key issues affecting local economic development, including the influential ‘Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism’ published by Zed Books in 2010 and which is now being prepared for a 2nd updated edition due out in 2020. His latest book published in January 2019 by Routledge in cooperation with UNCTAD and co-edited with Stephanie Blankenburg and Richard Kozul-Wright is entitled ‘The Rise and Fall of Global Microcredit: Development, Debt and Disillusion’. Finally, his most recent work with Maren Duvendack and Nicholas Loubere seeks to critically assess the development impact of the global ‘fintech’ (financial technology) movement epitomised by such as Kenya’s iconic M-Pesa.
Tanja Mihalič
Tanja Mihalič is Professor at the Department of Economics and Head of Tourism Institute and joint Erasmus Mundus European Master in Tourism Management (EMTM) program at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Ljubljana (SEBLU), Slovenia.
Her research interests include interdisciplinary academic fields that draw on multidisciplinary science of sustainomics, from the perspective of ecology, economics, welfare economics, political economy and sociology to study environmental problems and tourism impacts on the environments. She has experience in developing tourism educational and research programs and as tourism development and policy adviser to national governments, European Union and United Nations World Tourism Organization. She is the author of a variety of scientific publications and has led multiple tourism projects in both the public and private sectors. She contributed to the international and global policy documents and agendas, such as Action for more Sustainable European tourism (EC TSG, 2007), European Charter for Sustainable and Responsible tourism (EC TSG, 2012) and transformation of Global Code of Ethics for Tourism into Framework Convention on Tourism Ethics (UNWTO, 2019).
Mirza Nawazish
Mirza Nawazish is the Professor and Director Academics of MSc International Corporate Finance at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France. He is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Risk Finance, Editor of Economic Research, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment. He has also guest-edited Special Issues in Energy Economics, Resources Policy, Economic Analysis and Policy, and Climate Change Economics.
Dr. Mirza obtained his Doctorate in Finance, from the University of Paris Dauphine in 2010. He has more than 15 years of experience in consulting and teaching in Australia, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and France. His focus of teaching and research are Sustainable Finance, Financial Intermediation, Financial Valuation, Investments, and Financial Risk Management. Dr. Mirza's recent research has been published in Technological Forecasting and Social Change, International Review of Economics and Finance, Annals of Operations Research, Economic Modelling, Pacific-Basin Finance, Finance Research Letters, Journal of Asset Management, Resources Policy, and Journal of Environmental Management, among others. Before his academic stint, Dr. Mirza worked in Investment Banking, Asset Management, and Credit Ratings. He regularly contributes his opinions to popular media like Bloomberg, CNBC, China Daily, etc.
