Hakan Danis is the Vice President of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) and Director in the Credit Strategies Group at the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) (USA). He has previously worked at the Spanish multinational global bank Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) in the USA as economist. He is one of the founders and first President of the EBES. He has published articles in many leading economics and finance journals and currently serves as the Managing Editor of Eurasian Economic Review (Springer). He served as the guest editor at the Emerging Markets Finance & Trade and Singapore Economic Review, and has published several academic books. His current research and teaching interests include monetary policy, nonlinear applied time series, risk management in financial institutions, and macroeconomics. 

Ender Demir is an Associate Professor of Finance at School of Social Sciences Reykjavik University, Iceland. Dr. Demir is the founder and conference coordinator of the Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES). He serves as the Associate Editor of the Eurasian Business Review (Springer), and as a Subject Editor of the Journal of Multinational Financial Management. He has published his research in peer-reviewed international journals such as the Annals of Tourism Research, Emerging Markets Review, Finance Research Letters, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. His research interests are in corporate finance, cryptocurrencies, financial economics, and tourism economics.

Gokhan Karabulut graduated from Istanbul University (Turkey) in 1995 and worked at the Istanbul University as Research Assistant (1995-2002), Assistant Professor (2002-2008) and  Associate Professor (2008-2012). He became Full Professor in 2012. He also holds visiting faculty positions at University of New Orleans, Department of Economics (USA) and State University of New York (SUNY) in Albany, Department of Psychology (USA). Professor Karabulut has published in international academic journals and presented research papers at international conferences. He has also published several academic books. He is member of several academic institutions as board member and fellow. His research interests are behavioral economics and macroeconomics.