Prof., Dr.hab.oec. Baiba Rivža

Baiba Rivža, President of the Latvian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, former Minister of Education and Science, Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry, the Academy of Geography (Italy) and the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Chair of the Latvian Association of University Professors, Member of the European Academy of Sciences Advisory Council (EASAC), Co-author of the study on Circular Economy, Member of the Steering Committee of the European Union of Agri-Food and Life Sciences (UEAA), Head of the National Research Programme EKOSOC-LV (2014-2018) and the INTERFRAME-LV project (2019-2021), Academician of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Presidium of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Chair of the Board, Professor of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Dr.hab.oec. Research areas – bioeconomy, knowledge-based economy, business support policy, regional development, market research, higher education and science policy. 263 scientific publications, including those in the Scopus database, 5 monographs, 20 doctors of economic sciences awarded