Veland Ramadani is an Associate Professor at South East European University, Republic of North Macedonia. His research interests include entrepreneurship, small business management, family businesses and venture capital investments. He has authored or co-authored around 150 research articles and 24 books, including Entrepreneurial Marketing (2018), Entrepreneurship in Former Yugoslavia (2018), Effective Entrepreneurial Management (2017); Entrepreneurship and Management in an Islamic Context (2017); Female Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies (2015); and Entrepreneurship in the Balkans (2013). Dr. Ramadani is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business (IJESB). He received the Award for Excellence 2015 – Outstanding Reviewer from Emerald Group Publishing, and in 2016 the Award for Best Paper from the Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy. Dr. Ramadani was engaged by the President of the Republic of North Macedonia as a member of the Experts’ Committee to analyze the economic, technological and juridical conditions for establishing techno parks, and as a trainer by the Ministry of Economy in North Macedonia. In 2017, the Government of the Republic of North Macedonia appointed him as a member of the Supervisory Board of the Macedonian Bank for Development Promotion.