Iustina Alina Boitan is Associate Professor at the Department of Money and Banking, Faculty of Finance and Banking, within Bucharest University of Economic Studies. She is member of several professional bodies, such as the Financial and Monetary Research Center (since 2008) and the Monetary Research Center within the University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria (research fellow since 2015). She has performed several documentation visits for sharing best practices in teaching and research (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, 2014; University of Florence, Italy, 2018; University of Geneve, Switzerland, 2018; University of Zagreb, Croatia, 2019; Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria, 2019) and ERASMUS+ stages (University of National and World Economy, Bulgaria, 2015; Tashkent Financial Institute, Uzbekistan, 2017; University of Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2018; Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland, 2019). Her research interests focus on financial regulation and supervisory policies, banking systems’ efficiency and competition, assessment of banking systems’ distress, quantitative supervisory tools (such as the development of early warning systems), ethical or socially responsible banks, national promotional banks, crowd funding, social and financial inclusion, sustainable development, migration, labor market risks. She had been member of various research projects obtained through national competition or funded by the business environment.