Simona Balciunaite graduated from the Faculty of Law, Vilnius University in 2007 (Master of Law, specialization in Commercial law). She started her professional career at the Lithuanian financial markets supervisory authority (the LSC), Investment Management Department, where she was responsible mainly for drafting laws and LSC's legal acts regulating activities of collective investment undertakings and pension funds. Simona has also attended several national and international conferences on developments in financial markets and gained experience in foreign regulatory practice during the internships in Swedish and Norwegian financial supervisory authorities under the Nordic Council of Ministers' scholarship scheme.
Elyor Saidov
After completing his four-year Bachelor of Science in Banking Program at the Tashkent Finance Institute, Elyor Saidov worked at Industrial Construction Bank of Uzbekistan. He than improved both his theoretical and practical knowledge during his master degree in Malaysia. He participated in several international conferences, such as à 3rd International Islamic Banking, Accounting and Finance (July 2008, Kuala Lumpur), International Business Studies (December 2008, Kuala Lumpur), Small and Medium Entrepreneurship (March 2009, Langkawi). Elyor has written more than 20 economic articles. He has 3 years of experience in the banking field as a professional accountant with a Certified Accountant Technician qualification.
Margerita Baldarelli
Margherita got her Bachelor LLB degree, summa cum laude, from Università di Torino, Faculty of Law. Her third-year dissertation was on Italian Constitutional Law (“Popular legislative proposals in the Italian legal system. Problems and prospects”), while her fifth-year final dissertation was on Civili Law ("Privatization of the commons"). She also attended for a semester an Erasmus Programme at the University of Maastricht, Faculty of Law. In 2008 she was awarded the Premio Optime (Menzione), promoted by Turin’s Unione Industriale, as one of the 100 best graduated of the year.
Tomasz Zielenkiewicz
Tomasz was born in Torun, Poland, in 1985. From 2004 till 2009 he has studied Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (specialization in Civil Law, International Commercial Law and Private International Law). He has participated in Cambridge Diploma in English and European Union Law Program. In the academic year 2007/2008 he has completed European Union Law Course in Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies of the Nicolaus Copernicus University and Comparative Law Course delivered at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University. Tomasz has also participated in the 2008 International Business and Trade Summer Law Program provided by The Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law and the Jagiellonian University. Since 2007 till 2009 he was Vice-president of The International Commercial Law Students' Association at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He was also associate of the Criminal Law and Criminology Association at the Nicolaus Copernicus University. He has participated in the Central and Eastern European Moot Court Competition held under auspices of the Court of Justice to the European Communities and in the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna. In 2007 he has practiced in Public Prosecutor's Office in Torun. In academic year 2008/2009 Tomasz Zielenkiewicz was also a member of Legal Clinic at the Nicolaus Copernicus University.
Traoré Mamadou
Born on February 18, 1981 in Bamako-Mali. Enrolled in Primary School in 1988, I obtained my Junior High School Leaving Certificate (DEF) in Markala (in the 4th Region of Mali) in 1998.
Sent to the Public College (Lycée) of Baco Djicoroni (Bamako), I obtained my Baccalaureate Diploma in the Stream Exact Science in 2002. During the year 2002-2003, I started the University studies at the Faculty Economics and Management of Bamako, where I obtained a Maitrise Diploma in Quantitative Analysis and Economic Policy. In 2007, I was selected by the Embassy of France for a training and research program in Paris.
On my return from Paris, I attended a training program at BCEAO (Central Bank of the West African States), before being selected in June 2008 by the CODESRIA (the Council for the Development of Research in Social Science in Africa) to present in Dakar-Senegal a research task carried out on "Gender on Contemporary Job Markets".
Since I obtained my Maitrise I have undertaken two other studies on the migration between Mali and France. Presently, I am in charge of the promotion of Scientific and Technical Culture within the Club Regards Croisés France-Mali in Bamako.
Ekaterina Chudinovskaya
I asked myself a lot of times what I wanted to be when I left school, and as the time passed I changed my mind several times. And some day I realized that my strongest desire is to become a lawyer so I entered the Law Lyceum, where I continued studied from 2001 to 2003. Besides the compulsory subjects we had some lectures in Law, Economics; we got some practice in different local authorities and some other workplaces of different professionals connected with jurisprudence. Studying in the Law Lyceum gave me a great opportunity to enter the Ural State Law Academy. I studied in the institute of Justice, it was the full-time budgetary education. We studied history of law, law theory, constitutional law, criminal law, civil law, family law, business law, international law, criminal and civil procedure and quite a few other subjects connected with all spheres of law. Moreover we got lectures in culture, art, psychology, philosophy, sociology and so on. And of course I continued studying English all these years. The topic of my Final Research work was the lease of dwelling. During the last years of my studying in the Academy I started working as the secretary in the court, but it was not a work in literal meaning of this word, it was a kind of obligatory practice that I should complete to get the diploma of a lawyer. Then I started working as an assistant advocate on a voluntary basis. Furthermore having graduated from the Ural State Law Academy I entered the Urals Branch of the Russian postgraduate School of Private Law.
Olga Kim
Olga was born in 1984 in Uzbekistan. In 2001 she began her studies at the faculty of International Law of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy in Tashkent. During her university years Olga took an active part in different contests, moot court competitions, and conferences.
Thanks to her brilliant university results and her experience of work in the UWED Legal Clinic and internship in the Ministry of External Economic Relations, Investment and Trade of Uzbekistan, Olga was invited after her graduation in 2006 to one of the leading law firms in Tashkent. She has been lecturing at the College of Legal Studies since September 2008. Olga speaks Italian and holds a post of Vice-President of the Dante Alighieri Center in Tashkent since 2005.
Hussein Ead
I was born in Zarqa, Jordan. After I finished high school with high marks, I was admitted to the Bachelor of Accounting and Commercial Law at Hashemite University. At Hashemite University, I studied mixed courses in Accounting and Commercial Law. The interdisciplinary study of these courses opened my eyes to the fascinating interaction between law and accounting. Obtaining a degree in Accounting and Law will open up many career opportunities and will provide me with an advantage over other graduates who finished their bachelor degree in Accounting only. I have strong passion and interest in legal and financial matters, but it remained simple until I went to Hashemite University in the accounting and commercial law programme, which formed the starting information to explain and analysis relation between law and financial matters by deep and wide analysis for many of the economic and legal issues.
