BOOK OF ABSTRACTS - University American College Skopje

OUT OF THE CRISIS: EU ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES RECONSIDERED8 th Annual international conference on European integrationAcademic Track II: Economic and Financial Aspects of the EU CrisisModerator: Prof. Jeremy Cripps, PhD, Full-time Professor at American University in BulgariaOpening remarks: Dr. Marek Radvanský, Head of the Department of Economic Modelling at theInstitute of Economic Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Slovakia)Opening remarks: Prof. Leo H. J. Verhoef, PhD, Full-time Professor at Eindhoven University ofTechnology (The Netherlands)Rapporteur: Dr. Ilijana Petrovska, UACS Assistant ProfessorJeremy Cripps apprenticed at PriceWaterhouseCooper. He became Chartered Accountant and thenattended Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Graduating Master of Arts, hebecame a CPA (Ohio) specializing in Tax Jeremy and then joined a client as European Controller.Married with new family he joined Heidelberg University in Ohio in 1982. Fulbright Scholarships inZimbabwe and Bulgaria followed by setting up the Business program at the American University inKuwait. This fall he returned to the classroom in Blagoevgrad.Marek Radvanský is currently Head of Department of Economic Modeling and Analyses in theInstitute of Economic Research at Slovak Academy of Sciences. Dr. Radvanský holds PhD fromOperational Research and Econometrics at the University of Economics, Bratislavai. Since 2004 he isworking as a researcher on IER SAS. He leads and participates in several national and internationalprojects, such as FP6 and FP7 projects. He is co-author of 70 mostly empirical papers, mainly aboutmacroeconomic modeling, forecasting of labor market and regional developments. He also provideslectures at Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, where he is alsosupervisor of master thesis in the fields of Economics and Financial Mathematics. Furthermore heworks as leader of the Component for long-term forecasting of the labor market in a Twinningproject at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy in Skopje.Leo Verhoef is Professor of Entrepreneurship at Eindhoven University of Technology. He is also UACSVisiting Professor.Ilijana Petrovska is Associate Professor and a head of the marketing department at the School ofBusiness Administration, University American College Skopje, lecturing in marketing, marketingmanagement, advertising, integrated marketing communications and e-business at undergraduateand graduate students. Previously she worked as marketing manager in Stopanska bank for six years,and also as account executive in the advertising agency S Team Bates Saatchi & Saatchi for fouryears.