Nicholas Tsounis is a Professor of Economics at the Department of International Trade, Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences and an adjunct faculty member at the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has a PhD in International Trade Theory since 1992 from the Department of Economics, University of Manchester-UK. His research interests are on applied international economics, economic integration and applied microeconomics. He has published more than 50 articles in international scientific periodicals and conferences and 15 books. He is a referee/peer reviewer for several scientific periodicals and research calls of various countries, including the EU. He is the co-founder of the ICOAE conferences (with Aspasia Vlachvei) and an academic advisor to the Hellenic NARIC.Aspasia Vlachvei is Professor of Marketing, in Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences since 2002. Prior to that she has been employed in various capacities at the University of Macedonia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thessaly and TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has been Visiting Professor in Kiev National University of Taras Shevсhenko, Ukraine. She holds a BA degree from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, MSc in Rural Economics and Development from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania and a PhD degree on Agricultural Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, since 1997. Her research interests focus on international marketing strategies, competitiveness, wine tourism and wine marketing, e-marketing, social media. She is director of MSc “Public relations and marketing with new technologies” and co-director of MBA of Western Macedonia University of Applied Sciences. She is co-editor of the proceedings and member of scientific and organizing committee of International Conference on Applied Economics. She has been guest Editor in Journal of International Trade Law and Policy, International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, and International Journal of Financial Economics and Econometrics. She has published in several professional journals such as Applied Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural Economics, British Food Journal, Journal of European Economy, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics and New Medit.
