Mohamed Sami Ben Ali is a full professor of Economics at Qatar University. Previously, he was the head of the economics department and the member of the scientific board at HEC Business School, Tunisia. He holds a H.D.R degree, the highest European qualification for research. Previously, he received a Ph.D. in Economics with high honors from University of Lille—France, an M.Phil. (D.E.A) in International Finance and International Trade, and a B.A. in Business Economics. He has been teaching for the past years at graduate and undergraduate levels in Tunisia, Qatar, and France where he was a visiting professor. Dr. Ben Ali serves as an associate editor for Springer and De Gruyter journals and an editor for Palgrave and Springer and Routledge (Taylor and Francis) books series. He published a couple of books on economic development. His research and publications focus mainly on economic development and international monetary macroeconomics. He is actively participating and chairing in numerous international conferences. Ewa Lechman is a full professor of Economics in the Faculty of Management and Economics at Gdańsk University of Technology. Her research interests concentrate on economic development, digital technologies and technological progress, and its role in reshaping social and economic systems, as well as economics of network and innovative financial instruments. She has served as a referee in more than 35 highly ranked academic journals. She was a 2013 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence winner. From 2017 to 2019, she was nominated by Elsevier as an outstanding reviewer, and she has contributed to the University`s Elsevier Research Impact Leaders Award. Dr. Lechman has coordinated and participated in multiple research grants on digital technologies, social, and economic development, awarded by, inter alia, National Science Centre, CERGE-Global Development Network, National Bank of Poland, Stockholm Business School, and the United Nations for Development Program. An author and a co-author of more than 120 papers and books, she also serves on the board of the journal Telecommunication Policy (Elsevier).
