prof. dr.Vito Bobek

Vito Bobek is a professor of international management at the University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, the University of Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences, and the University of Applied Sciences FH Joanneum (Graz, Austria). He published over 500 units in his academic career and visited 22 universities worldwide as a visiting professor. Prof. Bobek is a member of the editorial boards of six international journals and an Open Access publisher of Intech in London. He is also an Accreditation expert panel member at the Agency for Science and Higher Education, Republic of Croatia.

He has a long history in academia, consulting, and entrepreneurship. In 2010, he founded the consulting firm Palemid, where he has managed 20 significant projects, such as Cooperation Program Interreg V-A (2014 Slovenia-Austria – 2020) and Capacity Building for the Serbian Chamber of Enforcement Agents. He has also participated in many international projects in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, the USA, Spain, Turkey, France, Romania, Croatia, Montenegro, Malaysia, and China. He is also a co-founder of the Academy of Regional Management in Slovenia.

Among his previous functions, he was:

• a member of the Supervisory Board of KBM Infond Management Company Ltd, which belongs to the Nova KBM (PLC) Banking group,
• a member of the Team Europe Slovenia,
• a member of the academic expert group in the Commission of the EU (DG Education) to evaluate Erasmus projects, and
• an advisor to the Ministry of Economic Relations Development of Slovenia for the strategy of International Economic Relations.
• a member of Slovenia’s Strategic Council of the Minister of Foreign Affairs.