Professor, Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, Sumy State University, Sumy, Ukraine; Director of Research, Institute for Development Economics (IDE) at Sumy State University, Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, National Academy of Science of Ukraine

Leonid Melnyk, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration of Sumy State University, Director of the Institute for Development Economics of Ministry of Education & Science and National Academy of Science of Ukraine. Author of over 450 publications (including 45 books – monographs, textbooks, popular editions) on the theory of development, sustainable development, production efficiency, information economics.