Ștefan-Cristian GHERGHINA, PhD. Habil., is a Professor at the Department of Finance, the Faculty of Finance and Banking, and a PhD. supervisor at the Finance Doctoral School, the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania. His areas of interest pertain to corporate finance and governance, quantitative finance, portfolio management, and sustainable development. He has authored and co-authored several books and articles published in top journals and has discussed his studies at many international conferences. He serves as a referee for various leading journals while also being an Editorial Board Member of Economies and the Journal of Risk and Financial Management, among other journals indexed by Clarivate Analytics, the Web of Science, the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), and other reputed international databases.