REDETE 2026 — 13th Annual Conference

Ron Boschma is full professor in Regional Economics at Utrecht University, and Adjunct Professor at UiS Business School of Stavanger University. Boschma has been full professor in Innovation Studies at Lund University where he was also director of the Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the Learning Economy (CIRCLE). He is member of the Executive Board of the International Regional Studies Association since 2015. Boschma has published on Evolutionary Economic Geography, geography of innovation, regional resilience, regional diversification, and Smart Specialization policy. Boschma has been ranked every year since 2014 by Thomson Reuters among the top 1% of cited researchers worldwide in all scientific fields. In 2024, he received the prestigious Vautrin Lud prize for his scientific achievements which is considered the ‘Nobel of Geography’, the highest award in the field of geography.

Georgios is working on issues of household, personal and behavioural finance. He was previously a reader in accounting and finance at the University of Glasgow, a senior lecturer and a lecturer in economics at the University of Stirling and a lecturer in business economics and finance at the University of Essex. His research has been featured in outlets such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, inter alia. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank in multiple occasions and is a Logo of Poets & Quants Best 40 under 40 professorsprincipal investigator for the collaborative EU-funded Horizon 2020 project “PROFIT: PROmoting FInancial awareness and sTability”. (Twitter: @PROFIT_platform) Georgios is also featured among the Poets & Quants 2020 Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors.

Dr. Predrag Bjelić was born on April 3, 1974, in Belgrade. He graduated in 1996 from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade, majoring in Foreign and Domestic Trade, and received numerous awards as one of the top students. He holds master's degrees in Economics and Political Science. He earned his PhD from the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade in May 2003. He is employed as a Full Professor at the Faculty of Economics in Belgrade. He teaches courses in International Trade at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as EU Economics (undergraduate studies) and Electronic Commerce (postgraduate studies). He also serves as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Montenegro. Previously, he worked at the National Bank of Yugoslavia (Military Service) and at the Institute of International Politics and Economics in Belgrade. Predrag Bjelić is the author of numerous books, contributions to edited volumes, and more than 100 articles published in academic and professional journals. He has pursued professional development at several prestigious institutions, including the London School of Economics, London, UK (2004, Visiting Fellow, Chevening Fellowship), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA (2005, Visiting Scholar, Fulbright Fellow), and the Faculty of Economics, University of Oslo, Norway (2005, Visiting Scholar, RCN Fellowship). He is actively involved in the academic work of the World Trade Organization (WTO), for which he also serves as a consultant, as well as the UNCTAD Virtual Institute. He is a member of the Serbian Scientific Society of Economists (NDES), the American Economic Association (AEA), The Society for the Study of Emerging Markets, the Serbian and Montenegrin Association for International Law, and several other professional organizations. He has participated in numerous national and international conferences and has collaborated on a wide range of projects with both domestic and international research institutes. He has delivered invited lectures at many educational institutions in Serbia and abroad. In addition, he has been involved in preparing consulting studies for the business sector.