Prof. Dr. (HP) Dalia Štreimikienė is an economist and internationally recognized scholar in sustainable energy, climate policy and the circular economy. She earned a PhD in Economics from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in 1997 and completed her habilitation in Economics there in 2005. She holds senior research positions at Vilnius University, Vytautas Magnus University’s Bioeconomy Research Institute and the Lithuanian Energy Institute and has supervised 15 doctoral and eight postdoctoral researchers. Her research addresses renewable energy, climate-change mitigation, energy poverty, sustainability assessment and environmental-policy instruments. Her notable academic works include the 2026 Routledge monograph “Circular Economy Assessment Indicators and Applications.” She is Editor-in-Chief of “Transformations in Business & Economics” and serves on several international journal editorial boards. She is a member of the International Association for Energy Economics and the Agricultural Economics Society.