BOOK OF ABSTRACTS - University American College Skopje

OUT OF THE CRISIS: EU ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POLICIES RECONSIDERED8 th Annual international conference on European integrationBiographyAnita Angelovska-Bežoska has 16 years of experience, mostly in the areas of monetary policy,macroeconomic policies in general, fiscal policy and public finance management. Currently, sheholds a position of a vice-governor of the National Bank of the Republic of Macedonia (NBRM).Previously, she held a position of Chief Economist of the NBRM, involved in the area of design andimplementation of the monetary policy, macroeconomic forecasting, analysis and research. Sheworked for the International Monetary Fund in Washington as an economist in the EuropeanDepartment and Fiscal Affairs Department for two years. As a leader of the task force forestablishment of the treasury system in Macedonia, and later on as a head of the Treasury at theMinistry of Finance, she participated in the process of reforming the public finance managementsystem in the Republic of Macedonia. She also held a position of State Secretary in the Ministry ofFinance, and was a member of the Management Board of the Health Insurance Fund and theDeposit Insurance Fund of the Republic of Macedonia. She holds an MBA degree from the Faculty ofEconomics in Skopje, and since 2009 she has been working on her doctoral thesis at the Faculty ofEconomics in Ljubljana, Slovenia.Dimitrios E. Akrivoulis is an Assistant Professor of IR in the Balkans at the Dept of Balkan Studies(UOWM) and a Visiting Professor at UACS. He has also taught at the University of Kent, UK, and NYCThessaloniki. He holds an LLB and an LLM from the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, and a PhD inIR from the University of Kent. He is an active member of PSA, BISA, ECPR, and HESILIR. His interestsinclude International Political Theory and Continental Political Thought. His work has been publishedby international publishing houses, such as Macmillan, Palgrave, Routledge, and Peter Lang.