Melina Dritsak | Economics | Women Researcher Award

Prof. Melina Dritsak | Economics | Women Researcher Award |

University of Western Macedonia | Greece

Melina Dritsaki is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Western Macedonia with extensive academic and professional experience spanning Greece and the United Kingdom. She holds a PhD in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia, an MSc in International Banking and Financial Studies from the University of Southampton, and a BSc in Economics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Prior to her current role, she served as Senior Health Economist at the University of Oxford and as Research Fellow at the University of Warwick and Brunel University. Her research lies at the intersection of econometrics, applied macroeconomics, health economics, energy economics, and public policy, with a strong emphasis on panel data methods, time-series analysis, and economic evaluation alongside clinical trials. She has published 86 peer-reviewed scientific documents with 1,442 citations and an h-index of 20, reflecting the impact and consistency of her scholarly contributions. Dr. Dritsaki has participated as lead economist or co-applicant in numerous nationally and internationally funded research projects and has supervised postgraduate research in economics and public health. Her work has been recognised with the Young Investigators Award from the European Respiratory Society. Through sustained research productivity, international collaboration, and teaching excellence, she continues to contribute significantly to empirical economic research and evidence-based policymaking.

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Ezzeddine Mosbah | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ezzeddine Mosbah | Sustainable Agriculture | Research Excellence Award

King Faisal University | Saudi Arabia

Ezzeddine B. Mosbah is an agricultural and rural-development economist whose academic formation includes a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the National Agricultural Institute of Tunis (INAT, 2007), preceded by a specialized engineering degree in Economy and Rural Development (1996) and an agro-economist engineering degree (1993) from the same institute. With more than two decades of professional experience across ministries of Agriculture, Education, and Employment & Vocational Training in Tunisia and, since 2017, as Assistant Professor at King Faisal University (KSA), and previously at institutions in Tunisia, he has taught courses ranging from Agricultural Economics and Water Economics to Development Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, and Project Feasibility Studies. His research interests revolve around agricultural economics, rural development, labor and employment markets, efficiency and impact evaluation, environmental economics and waste management, food marketing (notably date-palm economics), water desalination, and econometric/operations-research methods. According to publicly available citation data, his h-index is 3 with 33 citations and 6 documented publications — a baseline that signals a career still consolidating its scholarly impact. Among his work is the monograph Rationaliser le Comportement Public: la Formation un Exemple (2015). Through empirical analyses of water-use efficiency, agricultural investment incentives, municipal waste impacts, technical efficiency of farms, and environmental sustainability, Mosbah contributes to policy-relevant knowledge in both MENA and Gulf contexts. His ongoing focus remains on efficiency measurement, sustainable rural development, and socio-economic evaluation of agricultural and environmental systems.

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Featured Publications

Mosbah, E. B., & Dharmapala, P. S. (2022). Evaluating the effects of COVID-19 and vaccination on employment behaviour: A panel data analysis across the world. Sustainability.

Mosbah, E. B. (2021). Assessment of environmental and economic impacts of municipal solid wastes management system: A case study. Journal of Ecological Engineering.

Mosbah, E., Zaibet, L., & Dharmapala, P. S. (2020). A new methodology to measure efficiencies of inputs (outputs) of decision making units in data envelopment analysis with application to agriculture. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences.

Mosbah, E. B. (2025). Assessment of land cover changes and an exploration of their key factors at Al-Ahsa Oasis in Saudi Arabia (Working paper).