Iza GigauriIza Gigauri currently holds the position of Full Professor at the Department of Business Administration, School of Business and Administrative Studies, The University of Georgia (Georgia). She has been delivering lectures and teaching seminars at allthree levels of higher education for over 10 years. She is an expert, opponent, and supervisor of doctoral dissertations and Master’s theses. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, marketing, sustainability, entrepreneurship, human resource management, digitalization, and leadership. She has participated in numerous international conferences and has published over 80 scientific articles, books and book chapters. She is a member of various professional and research networks, a scientific committee member and keynote speaker at academic conferences. She is a guest editor, an editorial board member and a reviewer at international journals within Emerald, Springer, IGI Global, Frontiers, MDPI, Inderscience, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Wiley. She received her PhD in Business Administration from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University (Summa Cum Laude; Georgia). She holds an MBA from Business School Netherlands (The Netherlands) and an MBA from the American University for Humanities (highest honor; Georgia). She is a graduate from Ilia State University (highest honor; Georgia) and Ruhr-University Bochum (highest honor; Germany). She won a number of international academic scholarships, research grants and awards in the field of her academic specialization. In 2024, she received the Georgian Government Award for her Contribution to the Development of Science. Read More Read Less