Dragoș Păun is a graduate of Babeș-Bolyai University where he has obtained an undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees. He is an associate professor at the Ecole de Management de Normandie, Ecole de Management Leonard de Vinci and Vorarlberg University of Applied Science. Dragos published 3 books, 35 articles in peer review journals and is part of 5 editorial boards of international scientific journals. He coordinated between 2014-2018 the Jean Monnet module: Managing the EU: Taxation, Economics and Governance. In 2015, Dragoș Păun successfully completed a post-doctoral program at the Romanian Academy - Cluj branch. His research priorities include - corporate finance, public finance and crime.