**About the Editor**

**Tomasz Korol** (Ph.D., D. Sc., Eng.). Ph.D. in economics obtained in June 2004, and the degree of habilitated doctor in March 2015 at Gdansk University of Technology (GUT). Principal investigator of two research grants obtained at the National Science Center (NCN) in Poland. He also participated in panel meetings of experts reviewing research applications submitted to the NCN. In 2015–2016, he was a member of accreditation committee at SKVC—Center for Quality Assessment in Higher Education in Lithuania, evaluating four economic universities. In 2015–2020, he was the Chairman of the Faculty Committee for Education Quality Assurance, and since September 2020, he is the Vice-Dean for Science and the Chairman of the Social Sciences Council at the GUT. He won the international competition for the position of "associate professor" twice—at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico (2008–2009) and I-Shou University in Taiwan (2012–2013). Both universities are listed in high positions in the international TOP 500 university rankings in the world. In 2002–2007 he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Applied Science Stralsund in Germany.
