Dr. Štefan Bojnec

Prof. Dr. Štefan Bojnec graduated from the University of Ljubljana in 1982 and was awarded his Master's in 1984 and Ph.D. in 1988 from the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb. He is a Full Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Management, University of Primorska. As a researcher and visiting professor, he was active at several institutes and universities in several countries in Europe, the USA, and Asia. His research and teaching areas have been: enterprise economics, international economics, theory and analysis of market structure (industrial organization), history of economic thought, economic policy, sectoral economics (agriculture and environment, tourism, energy, education and employment, defence and peace, other industrial and service activities), regional development and rural development and sustainable development of the economy. He has participated in several national and international research projects. He was also a member of several expert groups, such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Commission, the United Nations (UN), the World Bank, and the German Society for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). In 1996–1997 he worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He has published his research in leading journals. In 2008, he received the Slovenian state Zois recognition for important scientific achievements in the field of economics.