Anna Nowak, Ph.D., Associate Professor, is the head of the Department of Economics and Agribusiness at the University of Life Sciences in Lublin, Poland. Her research interests focus on the issues of agricultural competitiveness, convergence in agriculture, the bioeconomy, the development of agriculture and farms, the productivity of production factors in agriculture, the spatial differentiation of agriculture, and the international agri-food trade. She is the author or co-author of 150 publications and a reviewer of many scientific publications.