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Emeritus Professor of Economics, Staffordshire University, United Kingdom.

Iraj Hashi is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Research on Emerging Economies (CREE) at Staffordshire University Business School, United Kingdom. In addition to his teaching duties at the University, he has been actively involved in research, teaching and consultancy in transition economies since 1992 and has worked with universities, research institutions and consultancy firms in Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Kosovo, Macedonia, Poland and Romania on a range of projects dealing with challenges of transition in these countries. These projects have been funded by the European Commission, World Bank and other international agencies.

His research interests are closely related to the process of transition in Central and Eastern Europe and the challenges faced by these countries in the process of developing a market economy.

His areas of interests are: enterprise behaviour during the transition process; privatisation; corporate governance; bankruptcy and reorganisation; SMEs and entrepreneurship; competitiveness at firm and industry level; innovation and technical change and employee financial participation. His expertise is on: microeconomics; governance reforms; industrial competitiveness; innovation and firm performance; and SME policy. Countries of specialisation: Albania, Croatia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, the Czech Republic and Poland.