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Assistant Professor Dr. Kristina Petljak

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb, Department of Trade and International Business

e-mail: kpetljak@efzg.hr

Kristina Petljak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Trade of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She teaches courses Retailing Management, Wholesale and Retail Business, Consumer Protection and Entrepreneurship. In 2014 she obtained her PhD degree at the EDAMBA postgraduate doctoral programme in Business Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, topic: 'Green Supply Chain Management in Food Retail'. In 2009 she obtained her MSc degree from the same Faculty, in Trade Management, topic: 'Distribution Channels of Organic Food Products'. Her research interests include retailing management, with special emphasis on green supply chain management, retail logistics, transportation management, organic and fair trade food. She has two years' experience from working in leading Croatian marketing agencies prior to joining University of Zagreb.

Assistant Professor Dr. Dora Naletina

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb, Department of Trade and International Business

e-mail: dora.naletina@efzg.hr

Dora Naletina is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Trade of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She teaches courses Transport and insurance and Transport, forwarding and insurance. In 2016 she obtained her PhD degree at the EDAMBA postgraduate doctoral programme in Business Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, topic: 'Resource based approach to competitive advantage in Croatian road industry'. She has worked on numerous scientific and industry-related projects, some of which are: ‘Innovations in supply chains in conditions of the retail internationalization’, ‘Managerial tools in digital enterprises‘. Her research interests include supply chain management, transportation management, transport policy, transport insurance and green transport.

Assistant Professor Dr. Ivana Štulec

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb, Department of Trade and International Business

e-mail: istulec@efzg.hr

Ivana Štulec is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Trade of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. She teaches courses International Business and Commodity Exchanges. In 2013 she obtained her PhD degree at the EDAMBA postgraduate doctoral programme in Business Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Business Zagreb, topic: 'The effectiveness of weather derivatives as hedging instruments against the effects of temperature variations in retail'. In 2009 she obtained her MSc degree from the same Faculty, in Trade Management, topic: 'Weather derivatives as futures market instruments'. Her research interests include econometric analysis of retail sales, weather effect on the supply chain, green supply chain management, transportation management, consumer buying behaviour, e-commerce and commodity exchanges.

Professor Dr. Stefan Seuring

University of Kassel, Chair of Supply Chain Management

e-mail: seuring@uni-kassel.de

Professor Dr. Stefan Seuring is full professor of supply chain management at the University of Kassel, Germany. Stefan is one of the globally leading authors on sustainable supply chain management, but also covers topics on supply chain strategy and the application of management accounting tools across supply chains. So far he successfully supervised 20 PhD students. In 2016, Stefan Seuring was listed among the 27 globally most-influential researchers in logistics and supply chain management by a panel of French Researchers. Stefan has collaborated interdisciplinary in research project with colleagues from agriculture, engineering and political sciences. His papers have appeared e.g. in Journal of Cleaner Production, International Journal of Production Economics, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Operations and Production Management.

Professor Dr. Gerald Reiner

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business), Department of Informations Systems and Operations, Institute for Production Management

e-mail: gerald.reiner@wu.ac.at

Professor Dr. Gerald Reiner holds a Magister Degree, a doctorate degree and Habilitation in Business Administration from the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU). Between 2007 and 2014 he was full professor in Production Management and Logistics at the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland). Between 2014 and 2018 he was full professor in Production Management and Logistics and head of the department of Operations, Energy, and ‘Environmental Management at Universitaet Klagenfurt (Austria). Furthermore, he was visiting professor at the Aston Business School (UK), HEC Lausanne (Switzerland), University of Bergamo and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (Italy). In 2018 he joined WU as full professor in Operations Management at the institute of Production Management at WU. Since 2008 he was coordinator, member of the steering board, and project partner in international research projects such as EU-​project “Keeping Jobs in EU” (http://www2.unine.ch/iene-​kje) and EU/Ecsel-​project “Power Semiconductor and Electronics Manufacturing 4.0” (http://www.semi40.eu/).

Assistant Professor Dr. Željka Mesić

University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Marketing in Agriculture

e-mail: zmesic@agr.hr

Assistant Professor Dr. Željka Mesić works as at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture, Department of Marketing in Agriculture. Her recent work is oriented towards market analysis, consumer research and supply chain analysis. During her work at FAZ she was involved in different professional and research projects dealing with agri-food markets, farmers cooperation, traditional agri-food products, education in the field of agriculture (AGRIPOLICY, FP7 211760; CEEC Agri-Policy FP6 513705; AGRITRAINING INTERREG III A –2005-0017-634005; AgMRC-Croatia financed by USAID). During her career, she studied at many foreign universities (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2018, Szent Istvan University, Budapest, 2018, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering at Ghent University, 2014, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2014, Montana State University, USA, (bilateral mobility programme, 2012), Universitat fur Bodenkultur (BOKU), Institute of Agricultural Economics, Vienna, Austria (2007, 2012, 2018, Ceepus scholarship). She is member of The European Association of Agricultural Economists - EAAE, The Agricultural Economics Society – AES, HAED-Croatian association of agricultural economists.