Tanja Dmitrović is full professor of marketing at the Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana (FELU).

She received her Ph.D. from Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. During her graduate studies, she held a fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA.

She teaches several courses in marketing such as Marketing Channels, Supply Chain Management, Customer Relationship Management, New Product Development. Her recent research includes projects in domain of marketing, tourism and industrial organization.

She is consulting in the areas of new product development, marketing strategies and industry analysis. Her articles have been published in various international journals, such as International Business Review, European Journal of Marketing, Tourism Management, Tourism Economics, etc.

In the period 2001-2007 she was a head of EQUIS accreditation project at FELU. Currently she serves as Chair of Acedemic Unit for Marketing and as Beta Gamma Sigma FELU Chapter advisor.

Christine Fairchild was appointed Oxford University’s Director of Alumni Relations in March 2011.

At Oxford, the Office of Alumni Relations supports links between alumni of the collegiate University through a dynamic offering of events, resources and engagement vehicles. The University has more than 300,000 known alumni, including over 44,000 in 188 countries outside the UK.

Prior to coming to Oxford, Ms Fairchild worked in various capacities at the Harvard Business School; namely, Director of Alumni Relations and, ultimately, Executive Director of External Relations where she oversaw development, alumni relations, and alumni communications. Before arriving at HBS, she worked at the Harvard Art Museums for ten years in the areas of membership, development, special events and public education. She was educated at Connecticut College in the US where she graduated with a BA in Asian Studies. She has volunteered for Hospice of Cambridge, Mount Auburn Hospital, Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, Learning by Design, Concord Academy and Connecticut College and currently serves on the boards of Oxford Limited, Malvern College and the CERN Alumni Advisory Board.

She is a Hugh Price Fellow at Jesus College and a Senior Associate of Somerville College.

Christian Sottana is director of Transport Service srl, a logistic company in the harbor area of Venice and President of Consorzio Multimodale Darsena focused on industrial redevelopment.

He has been the Private Sector Liaison Officer (PSLO) to the World Bank Group for Italy, Informest. It’s a network of liaison officers based in business intermediary organizations developed by the World Bank Group (World Bank, IFC, MIGA) working to foster trade and investment in developing countries with the support of the World Bank Group’s products and services.

He worked also as coordinator of Veneto in Europe Office (V.inE.), a working group staff in Brussels Department of Veneto Region Government for Cooperation with Eastern Europe Countries (1998 – 2008), where he advises on political and technical relations with EU Institutions, International Organizations, national and local government as Regions and Municipalities in EU and non EU countries and in 2008 he was also Chief Executive of Unioncamere Veneto, Brussels Office (Veneto’s Chambers of Commerce).

From 2003 to 2005 he worked for Sviluppo Italia Veneto (Regional Agency of the Italian Body for enterprise and inward investment development) as coordinator of the unit on “Inward investment development”. Previous experiences saw Mr Sottana working for the European Parliament (1993), Euro-Info-Centre Veneto - DG Enterprise European Commission (1994-1995), Italian Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (1995-1996).

He has been Project manager of several international European Projects and trainer in several Courses. From 2007 he is a member of the Journalist Association.

His recently contributes to publications are focus on local development, cross-national experiences and best practices, economic environment: “Doing Business in Veneto 2009” - World Bank and IFC, Coordinator. www.doingbusiness.org - “Una legge per i distretti“, Franco Angeli, 2009 – “Il Veneto nel mondo: linee guida per un possible e funzionale quadro d’insieme”, Chapter XV of Veneto Internazionale, Unioncamere Veneto, 2007 – “Private sector development: best practices from a local government”, presented to the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics – World Bank Group, Slovenia - May 2007 - “Target impresa: I bisogni delle imprese italiane in Romania – dalla voce degli imprenditori” – March 2007 - “New Democracy in the Balkans: Voice to Citizenship through the media” , Foxwell & Davies UK LTD – Scientific Publisher.

From 2005 he has been working as journalist as well (Registered at the Association of Journalists on the 11th October 2007).

Mr. Sottana studied in Venice and Brussels; he has a Master in International Politics from the ULB - Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium) and a Degree in Foreign Trade at Cà Foscari University of Venice.  He currently  is the Vice-President of Ca’ Foscari Alumni, the network of Ca’ Foscari University alumnus with over 14.000 members including entrepreneurs, managers, scholars, researchers, and professors.  

Skilled project manager and strategist with versatile experience ranging from international companies to non-profit organisations and public institutions.  

Currently advising University of Ljubljana, Slovenia on alumni relations and alumni strategic development.  

Passionate about connecting knowledge, people, companies and institutions in promoting innovation and growth for common good.

Noah Charney holds Masters degrees in art history from The Courtauld Institute and University of Cambridge, and a PhD from University of Ljubljana.

He is Adjunct Professor of Art History at the American University of Rome and at University of Ljubljana, and is the founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a non-profit research group on issues in art crime (www.artcrimeresearch.org).

Charney is the author of hundreds of academic and popular articles, contributing regularly to The Guardian, the Daily Beast, Atlantic, Salon, The Art Newspaper, The Washington Post, Esquire and many others. 

He lives in Slovenia.

She is the Associate Professor in Work and Organizational Psychology at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts. Her research interests are in leadership, stress, cultural intelligence, and positive approaches in organizations. She is also a business advisor – she advises, conducts workshops, and gives lectures for employees in the economy and the public sector.

Nena oversees the operation of the Alumni Relations Office at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest, Hungary. She leads a team of six working closely on a variety of alumni engagement programs including fundraising, events, services & benefits, communication, volunteer engagement and data management for a community of more than 16,000 alumni in over 130 countries in the world. Nena is passionate about collaboration, sharing knowledge, connecting people and enabling them to reach their full potential. She has over twelve years of experience in international higher education. Prior to CEU she was managing programs at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in London, the Institute of International Education (IIE) and Open Society Foundation (OSF) in Budapest.