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I joined Aston Business School in January 2012. My previous position was Professor of Comparative Economics at SSEES University College London (since 2008), where I started as a lecturer in 1996. Prior to that I spent one year as a researcher at the University of California in Davis. My first academic post was at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland. In the past I also served on the board of directors of a major privatised producer of herbs ‘Herbapol’, worked with OIC International on a business incubators programme and also spent some time in public administration as the deputy mayor of Lublin, responsible for economic matters.

• Economics of Entrepreneurship
• Regional Economics
• International Business

• BSM961 International Corporate Governance (2024-)
• BSM945, Economics of Governance and Organisations (2019-2023)
• BS2222, Emerging and Transitional Economies
• BH1109, International Perspectives in Organisations
• BSM940, The Economic Environment of Business

•  MA, Catholic University of Lublin, 1984

• PhD, Catholic University of Lublin, 1988

• Habilitation in economics, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, 2008

• 2008-2011 Professor of Comparative Economics, University College London

• 2002-2008 Senior Lecturer in Economic Restructuring, University College London

• 1996-2002 Lecturer in Economic Restructuring, University College London

• 1995-1996 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, University of London

• 1992-1996 Lecturer in Economics, Institute of Economics, Catholic University of Lublin

• 1991-1992 Researcher, Department of Economics and Institute of Governmental Affairs, University of California, Davis

• 1990-1991 Deputy Mayor, City of Lublin

• 1986-1992 Assistant Lecturer in Economics, Institute of Economics, Catholic University of Lublin

European Association of Comparative Economic Studies, Member of the Advisory Board (former President)

• Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, editor (2019-)
• Regional Studies, editor (2013-2018)
• Journal of Business Venturing, member of the editorial review board
• Post Communist Economies, member of editorial board