Keynote Speakers

 

Professor Matthias Fuchs
Professor of Business Administration, faculty of Economics and Management,
Free University of Bolzano, Italy.
Director of the Competence Centre for Sustainable Tourism, Brunico, Italy

Matthias Fuchs, Ph.D., was tenured in Business Administration at University of Innsbruck, Austria in 2003. Subsequently, he was the director of the e-Tourism Competence Center Austria located at Innsbruck, Austria. From 2008 until June 2024, Matthias worked as a Full Professor of Tourism Management & Economics at Mid Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden. Since July 2024, Matthias holds the position of a Full Professor of Business Administration at the faculty of Economics and Management at Free University of Bolzano, Italy. He is also the director of the Competence Centre for Sustainable Tourism, located at Brunico, Italy. Matthias’ main research interests include digital transformation in the tourism domain with a focus on big data and business intelligence applications, such as topic detection and sentiment analysis based on tourists’ online feedback. Moreover, Matthias’ research interests comprise network analyses and input output methodologies for conducting socio-economic impact analysis in tourism. Matthias also steered relevant studies in the field of customer-based destination brand equity. Finally, Matthias developed critical epistemologies grounded on Buddhist philosophy to foster more just and regenerative types of tourism (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103688). Recently, Matthias’ research interests also cover the assessment of tourism’s contribution to sustain regional circular economies. Prof. Matthias Fuchs is Editor-in-Chief  of the Journal of Information Technology & Tourism. Matthias is also the co-editor of the recently published Springer Handbook of e-Tourism (https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-3-030-48652-5). Finally, Prof. Matthias Fuchs serves the editorial board of the Journal of Travel Research, Annals of Tourism Research, Tourism Analysis, and the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Management.

Speech Title: The Sustainability Discourse in Tourism: An Ethico-Philosophical and Management Epistemological Critique (Download Abstract)
 

 

 

Professor Fredj Jawadi
Professor of Finance, University of Lille, France 
Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement

Fredj Jawadi is Professor of Econometrics and Finance (Professeur des Universités) and the Director of the Master CGAO at the University of Lille (France), and he was an Associate Professor at the University of Evry-Paris Saclay from 2010 to 2018, and an Assistant Professor at Amiens School of Management from 2006 to 2010. Currently, he is an Associate Researcher at EconomiX-CNRS (University of Paris Nanterre) and a Deputy Director for CAC (Cliometrics and Complexity Team at IXXI Complex Systems Institute, http://www.ixxi.fr/?p=3219) in France. In addition, he is an Officer of the Society for Economic Measurement in the U.S. (http://sem.society.cmu.edu/home.html ), and a Research Fellow at the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Egypt. He is a Fellow of the Society for Economic Measurement (elected in June 2018) https://sem.society.cmu.edu/SEM_Fellows.asp. He is also a Charter Fellow at the Institute for Nonlinear Dynamical Inference (INDI) in Russia since 2015. He has been a Visiting Scholar or Professor at the University of Chicago, Emory University, University of Kansas, University of Liverpool, University of Ljubljana, University of Greenwich, and University of Gent since 2009.

His research interests are: Empirical Finance and Applied Econometrics. He has over 100 papers published in various International Journals including: Annals of Operational Research, Applied Economics, Computational Economics, Econometric Reviews, Economic Modelling, Finance, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions and Money, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Macroeconomics, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Macroeconomic Dynamics, Quaterly Review of Economics and Finance, Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, Revue d'Economie Politique, Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics and Econometrics, The Energy Journal, etc. I’ve co-authored and co-edited several books and book chapters for Chapman Hall / Francis and Taylor, Emerald Group Publishing, Elsevier, McGraw-Hill, Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, World Scientific, etc.

He has also served as an Associate Editor or a Subject Editor to the following Journals: Computational Economics (since 2016), Emerging Market Review (since 2016), Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (since 2015), Macroeconomic Dynamics (since 2014), Research in International Business and Finance (since 2014), and Economic Modelling (since 2013). Additionally, he has co-edited several special issues for different national and international journals in Economics and Finance.

Lastly, he is the Co-Organizer of two International Conferences: The first one covers topics on Computational Economics (International Symposium in Computational Economics and Finance (www.iscef.com ), while the second one looks at the recent developments in financial and nonlinear econometrics: International Workshop on Financial Markets and Nonlinear Dynamics (www.fmnd.fr). He was also the Co-Chair of the SEM (Society for Economic Measurement) 's Second Conference (Paris, July 22-24, 2015). He was the Co-chair the 25th Annual Symposium of the Society for Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics: http://snde2017.essec.edu/home that was organized in Paris on March 30-31, 2017, with ESSEC.

 

Prof. Edoardo Gaffeo
University of Trento, Italy

Edoardo Gaffeo is a Full Professor of Economic Policy at the Department of Economics and Management, University of Trento. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the Polytechnic University of Marche after receiving an M.A. from the University of Reading and a B.A. from the University of Bologna. Prior to his current appointment, he served as Associate and Assistant Professor at Trento, Assistant Professor at the University of Udine, and held visiting positions at UC Santa Cruz, the ISI Foundation, and the University of Padova. His research spans complex economic systems, agent-based computational economics, financial networks, and macroeconomics. His work has been funded by major institutions, including an INET grant on systemic risk. He currently leads the REFINe research group at Trento. He has authored three books and published extensively in top journals such as the Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and Industrial and Corporate Change. In addition to supervising several Ph.D. candidates, Professor Gaffeo currently coordinates the M.Sc. in Finance at Trento and serves on joint Ph.D. committees. His service includes associate editorial work and refereeing for dozens of leading economics journals. Bridging academic expertise with public and institutional leadership, he served as Mayor of Rovigo (2019–2024) and has held key supervisory and board roles in the banking and corporate sectors, most notably at Intesa Sanpaolo SpA (2013–2019).
 

Invited Speaker

 

 Prof. Nebojsa Radojevic
IU International University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Nebojša Radojević is Professor of Project Management at IU International University of Applied Sciences in Dresden, Germany, and Guest Professor at Shenzhen Technology University, China. His general research interests include project management, innovation, and strategic management, with particular emphasis on how institutional environments, cultural factors, and managerial cognition shape organizational decision-making and innovation performance. His current research projects address projectification in the third sector, the relationship between national culture and innovation, and corporate governance paradigms as determinants of innovation activity. Nebojša joined academia after almost 20 years of professional experience in project and program management, management consulting, and business development in the IT and consultancy industry. This background enables him to integrate theoretical perspectives with managerial practice in his teaching and research. He has taught and conducted academic activities in Europe, Canada, and China and has consistently pursued an interdisciplinary approach that bridges technology, international business, and project management. Nebojša holds a PhD in International Business and an MBA from the University of Montreal, a Diplom-Informatiker from Dresden University of Technology, and professional credentials (PMP, PRINCE2, MSP) in project and program management.

Speech Title: Projectification in the Third Sector: A Systematic Review of Project Management under Stakeholder and Accountability Pressures (Download Abstract)