Octavian-Dragomir Jora is a Professor, Ph.D., Habil. with the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, the Faculty of International Business and Economics and an economist, scholar, writer, editor, and a settled presence in the Romanian (as well as abroad) marketplace of academic and journalistic debates. An active presence within epistemic communities, Professor Octavian-Dragomir Jora has cultivated and developed interests in comparative economic systems, critical and creative thinking, and geo-politics and geo-economics of cultures and civilizations. He is also (co-)author of numerous books and other published and/or presented scientific papers (more than 100 titles), as well as of journalistic op-eds, essays, pamphlets (more than 1000 titles).