Alexandra-Mădălina Țăran is a Lecturer with a PhD habil. in the Finance Department in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, West University of Timisoara. Her research mainly addresses: i) the public economic field, namely public policies, welfare, good governance; and ii) corporate economics field, namely risk management, corporate financing, business models, and strategic sustainable business development. Her research in these fields has been published in 4 books and more than 15 papers indexed in Web of Science academic journals.