Stjepan Srhoj, expert on quantitative policy evaluation analysis, Dr. Stjepan Srhoj is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics, Business and Tourism, University of Split. He received his PhD in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck. His research is focused on theory of the firm and public policy evaluation, in particular, he explores the impact of public grants on small and medium sized enterprises. His work has been widely published in leading journals in the field including European Economic Review, Small Business Economics and Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. For work on evaluations of public grants he received several recognitions including National Science Award, Olga Radzyner Award, Hans Raupach Award, SmartEIZ Award, and was invited to serve as Editorial Review Board Member from January 2020 in the Small Business Economics journal (WoS CC Q1 in economics), a leading entrepreneurship and economics journal.
Mate Damic, expert on resilience and total quality management, Dr. Mate Damic is an Assistant Professor at the University of Zagreb. He received his PhD in Business Economics at the Faculty of Economics of Business, University of Zagreb. During his doctoral studies, he was also a visiting research fellow at Cass Business School, City, University of London. The majority of his research is focused on topics of firm quality management. His most recent ongoing work explores the relationship between resilience and total quality management.
Mislav Radic, expert on qualitative comparative analysis, Dr. Mislav Radic is an Assistant Professor at Bocconi University and Research Fellow at the University College London (UCL) School of Management. He received his PhD at Cass Business School, City, University of London. Prior to joining the Bocconi he was a post-doc research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). His research interests lie at the intersection between strategic management and public policy. His work on privatizations was published at the Journal of Management (leading journal in the field, Q1, 4* ABS ranking). He is the recipient of the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship with the ‘industrial strategy steer’ for his project “Rethinking Privatisations: Exploring the Potential of Hybrid Organising in the Railway Sector”.
Ivan Žilić, an expert on quantitative policy evaluation works as a research associate in The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, and as an external research associate at the Research on South-Eastern Europe unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He received his undergraduate degree in Economics at the University of Zagreb, a Master's degree in Economic Analysis at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and a PhD in Economics at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz; he also worked as a Research Officer at the LSE. Most of his research revolves around labor, education, and development economics from a microeconometric perspective, and he has published studies in prestigious economics journals such as Journal of Housing Economics, LABOUR, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, European Journal of Political Economy, Economics of Education Review, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, among others.