Sofia Johan is an Associate Professor of Finance at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University and a Phil Smith Fellow at The Phil Smith Center for Free Enterprise at the College of Business. Also, Sofia is a Visiting Professor at InnoLab, University of Vaasa, Finland and an Extramural Research Fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) in the Netherlands. Sofia has published over 86 articles in leading journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal. She has published 15 papers in the top-50 Financial Times-ranked journals. Her work has been cited over 8,000 times. Sofia was an Elected Representative at Large of the Entrepreneurship Division, Academy of Management [2021-2024]; and the Chair, Global Scholars Development Committee 2023-2024. She is currently the AIB International Finance Annual Meeting 2025, Accounting and Corporate Governance Track co-chair. Sofia is a Co-Editor of Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance (2021-), and an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Management, the British Accounting Review and International Journal of Finance and Economics. She sits on the Editorial Boards of Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of Risk and Financial Management. Sofia has published 6 academic books, including The Oxford Handbook of Hedge Funds (2021), Crowdfunding: Fundamental Cases, Facts, and Insights (2019), and The Oxford Handbook of IPOs (2018).
Klaus F. Zimmermann is President of EBES; President of the Global Labor Organization (GLO); Co-Director of POP at UNU-MERIT; Full Professor of Economics at Bonn University (em.); Honorary Professor, Maastricht University, Free University of Berlin and Renmin University of China; Member, German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Regional Science Academy, and Academia Europaea (Chair of its Section for Economics, Business and Management Sciences). Among others, he has worked at Macquarie University, the Universities of Melbourne, Princeton, Harvard, Munich, Kyoto, Mannheim, Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA), Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics. He serves in the Editorial Board of International Journal of Manpower, Research in Labor Economics and Comparative Economic Studies, among others. He is the Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA); Past-President, German Institute for Economic Research (DIW); Distinguished John G. Diefenbaker Award 1998 of the Canada Council for the Arts; Outstanding Contribution Award 2013 of the European Investment Bank; Rockefeller Foundation Policy Fellow 2017; Eminent Research Scholar Award 2017, Australia; EBES Fellow Award 2018. He has published in many top journals including Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Review, Econometrica, Journal of the European Economic Association, Journal of Human Resources, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Public Choice, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Population Economics and Journal of Public Economics. His research fields are population, labor, development, and migration.
Marco Vivarelli is a full professor at the Catholic University of Milano, where he is also Director of the Institute of Economic Policy. He is Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Maastricht; Research Fellow at IZA; Fellow of the Global Labor Organization (GLO). He is member of the Scientific Executive Board of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES); member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research (WIFO, Vienna) and has been scientific consultant for the International Labour Office (ILO), World Bank (WB), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the European Commission. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Eurasian Business Review, Editor of Small Business Economics, Associate Editor of Industrial and Corporate Change, Associate Editor of Economics EJournal, member of the Editorial Board of Sustainability and he has served as a referee for more than 70 international journals. He is author/editor of various books and his papers have been published in journals such as Cambridge Journal of Economics, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economics Letters, Industrial and Corporate Change, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Productivity Analysis, Labour Economics, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Regional Studies, Research Policy, Small Business Economics, Southern Economic Journal, World Bank Research Observer, and World Development. His current research interests include the relationship between innovation, employment, and skills; the labor market and income distribution impacts of globalization; the entry and post-entry performance of newborn firms.e
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