Cristian-Marian BARBU is a PhD. Professor at the ARTIFEX University of Bucharest, Faculty of Management and Marketing, also the President of the University. His expertise in teaching and research, as tenured teaching staff in higher education, since 2003, in Political Economics, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Prices and Competition, Economic Policies, made him allocate time to research and the dissemination of the findings, which resulted into books, monographs, studies, and articles published, as well as participation in national and international conferences, and research grants.