Fostering Recovery Through Metaverse Business Modelling

Alina Mihaela Dima is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). She is Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and previously, she was Director of the  Department for Business Administration (UNESCO Chair). Her main research fields of interest are International Business, Competition Policy, European Integration, and Higher Education. She is the Chief Editor of the journal 'Management & Marketing': Challenges for Knowledge Society (Sciendo/De Gruyter) indexed in ESCI -Clarivate and Scopus She has edited several international books, coordinated national research projects, and authored various papers published by prestigious international journals.


Elena Rodica Danescu is a Research Scientist, PhD at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg. She is an elected member of the University Council (2018-2023), the Board of the Fondation du Mérite européen and the Council of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe (Lausanne, Switzerland), and she is an active member of several outstanding professional associations worldwide (EUSA, UACES, ESHET, AISPE). Her main fields of research are: contemporary European history, European integration history, Economic and Monetary Union,  financial, banking and oral history. She has authored numerous publications in her areas of expertise, regularly participated in the peer review process of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Cambridge), and involved in the evaluation of interdisciplinary research projects submitted to COST Association and Italian Research Funding (MIUR).