Nicholas Tsounis is a Professor of Economic Analysis at the Department of Economics, and a Director of the Applied Economics Laboratory of the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. His research interests are in applied microeconomics, computational economics, international economics, and the economics of tourism. He has published more than 70 articles in international scientific periodicals and conferences and 20 books. His published work attracted more than 900 citations. He is a referee/peer reviewer for several scientific periodicals and research calls of various countries, including the EU. He is the co-founder and co-chair (with Prof. Aspasia Vlachvei) of the ICOAE conferences (www.i-coae.com). Aspasia Vlachvei is Professor of Marketing at University of Western Macedonia,Greece and Adjunct Professor at Hellenic Open University. She is also director of Institute of Economic Analysis and Entrepreneurship, at University of Western Macedonia. Her research interests focus on marketing strategies, competitiveness of firms, structure, conduct and performance and entrepreneurial behaviour. She has participated in several research projects on agrofood. She is co-editor of sixteen books published by Springer, Elsevier and IGI Global and author of two books (in Greek). She has published in several scientific journals while she has more than 1300 citations. She is member of Gender Equality Committee - University of Western Macedonia, Hellenic Society of University Women and of the women's sector of the International Chamber of Commerce of Greece (ICC Women Hellas).