Rector, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia.

Marinko Škare is a Full Professor of Economics, Editor in Chief of International Journal Economic Research, Taylor & Francis (Routledge group) and member of editorial board in several internationally recognized journals. Presently he is serving as Rector of Juraj Dobrila University in Pula. He was awarded the Juraj Dobrila University Prize and Istrian country (2013-2014) for the development of social sciences. He received a high honor degree from the Croatian Parliament “National Science Award in 2014” as recognition for exceptional research results. He serves on the editorial board of several internationally recognized journals and reviewers for WoS-ranked journals and as member of the Board of Governors of ACIEK. He is author of 140 scientific articles and majority of them in the ISI ranked journals.