Jakub Kraciuk is a professor at Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), and is employed in the Institute of Economics and Finance of this University. His research interests focus on issues of international economics, with particular emphasis on economic globalisation and its effects, such as: concentration processes taking place in the global economy, as well as the processes of fragmentation and relocation of production. In his research work, he also dealt with the activities of transnational corporations, financial crises and their impact on the world economy and the economies of individual countries, as well as the flows of goods, services and factors of production on an international scale. He is the author of many publications in this field, as well as the promoter of three defended doctoral theses and many bachelor's and master's theses in the field of Economics and Finance and Accounting. He is a member of the Editorial Committee of Scientific Journals of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Problems of World Agriculture. He was the Deputy Dean for Science and the Dean at the Faculty of Economics of the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Currently, he is the Head of the Department of International Economics and Agribusiness. He was also the coordinator of the research of the members of the rural elite in Poland, carried out under the 6th Framework Program of the European Union, carried out by the Institute of Agricultural Economics at the University of Kiel.