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PCU is pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Inna Makarenko as a Principal Lecturer for the School of Business. Professor Makarenko joined 麻豆社区 in May 2022 and teaches finance-oriented subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate level students. She has multidisciplinary research interests and a background in sustainability accounting, corporate transparency, responsible investment, and financial markets modelling.

Sustainable Research

Professor Makarenko鈥檚 investigative interests fit perfectly within the School of Business research aims, teaching and ethos that is driven by the (SDG).

Her research has explored SDGs 2 and 12 that cover agriculture companies sustainability transparency and global food security, SDG 3 for improvement of national health care systems and post-Covid recovery, as well as SDGs 4 and 8 that focus on educational challenges to ensure decent work and economical growth.

The general context of SDGs and the sustainability research undertaken by Professor Makarenko is to investigate companies' corporate social responsibility, stakeholder engagement and partnerships in various public, finance, and real sectors of the economy, along with the development of corporate and national social responsibility strategies for sustainability.

Additionally, this form of sustainability research addresses overcoming SDG financing gaps, responsible and ESG investment rationale and ways to enhance informational effectiveness of the financial market by modelling its persistence, volatility, and anomalies.

Publications

Professor Makarenko is an author of more than , including 30 articles in publications indexed in and WoS databases and 17 intellectual property documents. She also writes for the Journal of Economic Studies (Scopus, WoS), Agriculture and Resource Economics (WoS, Scopus), Problem and Perspectives in Management (Scopus, Q2).

Academic Background and Highlights

Before joining PCU Professor Makarenko was an Associate Professor at , Ukraine and became a full Professor of Accounting and Taxation in 2022 . She has a PhD. in Finance from the , a Doctoral degree in Accounting and Auditing from , Ukraine. She also holds a Master's Degree in Accounting and Auditing and a Master's degree in High School Pedagogy and an ACCA Diploma IFR Certificate as a professional in international financial reporting standards.

Over the years Professor Makarenko has been the recipient of many awards for her academic publishing, activities and promotion of education, the most recent in 2021 when she was awarded 鈥淵oung Scientist of the Year鈥� from Laureate of the All-Ukrainian competition.

Recent Publications

Professor Makarenko has published several papers in 2022 including her first affiliated article with PCU and a collaborative article with Dr Stefano Cavagnetto & Dr Vaclav Bro啪 from PCU鈥檚 School of Business faculty.

Makarenko, I., Plastun, A., Mazancova, J., Juhaszova, Z., Brin, P. Published 2022 Agricultural and Resource Economics: International Scientific E-Journal, 8 (2) (forthcoming, in print, WoS, Scopus)

Sovereign Wealth Fund鈥檚 transparency, financial performance and countries SDGs rankings.
Cavagnetto,S., Makarenko, I., Bro啪, V. Guo Y., Filatova, H. Forthcoming 2022 in
Investment Management and Financial Innovations  (Scopus, Q3)

Makarenko, I., Plastun, A., Kozmenko, S., Rudychenko, A. Published 2022 in AGRIS on-line Papers in Economics and Informatics, (forthcoming, in print, Scopus, Q2)

Alex Plastun, Inna Makarenko, Daniel Salabura, Yulia Serpeninova and Mario Situm. Published 2022. 19(3), 60-71. doi:10.21511/imfi.19(3).2022.06 (Scopus, Q3)

Caporale, G.M., Gil-Alana, L., Plastun, A., Makarenko, I. (2022) *=(Scopus, Q3 2)

Jaroslav Slepeck媒, Anna Vorontsova, Alex Plastun, Inna Makarenko and Iryna Zhyhlei (2022). , 19(2), 51-66. doi:10.21511/imfi.19(2).2022.052021, (Scopus, Q3)

Inspiring Students

As a Principal Lecturer Professor Makarenko brings her considerable knowledge and experience into the classroom. Her goal for more business transparency and corporate responsibility to ensure a more equitable and sustainable future are ones that we hope will inspire students to embrace and implement within their workplaces and careers.