Aleksander Aristovnik is Professor of Economics and Management in Administration at the Faculty of Public Administration and Professor of Economics at the School of Economics and Business (University of Ljubljana). He has professionally and scientifically deepened his knowledge and skills as visiting scholar hosted by Princeton University, University of Nevada (Reno), University of Dubai, University of Gent, University of Zagreb etc. His main research interests include Public Sector Economics, Public Sector Management, Macroeconomics and Economics of the European Integration. He has actively participated in numerous international conferences and published his research findings in international (SSCI indexed) academic journals (e.g. Eastern European Economics, Expert Systems with Applications, Personnel Review, TQMBE, Sustainability, Plos One etc.). His research publications have been cited more than 810 times (WOS and Scopus databases) with h-index of 16. He is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals (e.g. Public policy and administration research, International journal of knowledge and learning, Croatian economic survey) and a member of the programme committee of different international scientific conferences (e.g. NISPAcee). Moreover, he has been a head (or a member) of more than 25 domestic/international projects, and an external reviewer of projects/programmes of different research agencies/networks (e.g. Slovenian Research Agency (SRA), Romania