Academic Staff – Faculty of Economy

Name Artur Jaupaj
Responsibility/Position Lecturer/Corporate Training & Continuing Education
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business Administration
Rank Associate Professor
email artur.jaupaj@cit.edu.al
Research interests Higher Education (HE) and vocational/professional training, new technologies for educational purposes, organizational communication/behavior, interpersonal and intercultural communication.
Name Llukan Puka
Responsibility/Position Researcher / Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business Administration and IT
Rank Full Professor
email llukan.puka@cit.edu.al
Research interests Probability, Statistics, Stochastic Processes; Time series, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, General Insurance, Survival analysis, Survey sampling, Teaching of mathematics at school.
Name Ioannis Tampakoudis
Responsibility/Position Visiting Lecturer/Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business
Rank Assistant Professor
email ioannis.tampakoudis@cit.edu.al
Research interests Financial markets,

credit derivatives,

mergers and acquisitions, FDIs

Name / Surname Altin Kulli
Responsibility/ Possition Vice Dean/Head of Department / Instructor
Main Unit Faculty of Economy
Basic Unit Business Administration
Rank Dr.
Research interest fields Economics, exchange rates, economic behavior and modelling, statistics and econometrics, banking and financial markets analysis
Name Merita Cani
Responsibility/Position Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Economics
Rank Lecturer
email meri.cani@cit.edu.al
Research interests Banking system, microfinance, financial inclusion, risk management techniques, commercial bank performance measurement, SME and micro lending, international forms of payments, including FINTECH.
Name Elira Hoxha
Responsibility/Position Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business Administration and Information Technology
Rank PhD
email elira.hoxha@cit.edu.al
Research interests Database Security, End-User Software Engineering, Web Services, Mobile Computing (UI Design).
Name Saimir Mansaku
Responsibility/Position Instructor/Member of the Quality Assurance unit
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of CIRD Economy
Rank MBA
email saimir.mansaku@cit.edu.al
Research interests Management of higher education, management of HR, intercultural communication, marketing, social media, IT applied to business and other related areas.
Name Iris Topalli
Responsibility/Position Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business Administration and Information Technology
Rank PhD
email iris.topalli@cit.edu.al
Research interests Economic and Legal Environment, Business Law, Business Administration, Management of human resources, Intellectual Property Law, Communication skills, Academic Reading and Writing,Research Methods, Civil Law, Ethic-Natural Law Constitutional Review
Name Besarta Tafa
Responsibility/Position Assistant professor.
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of Business Administration
Rank Full Professor
email b.tafa@cit.edu.al
Research interests Islamic finance, Sustainable finance, Alternative finance, Bank management
Name Isida Mansaku
Responsibility/Position Instructor
Basic unit Faculty of Economy
Unit Department of BA and IT
Rank Full-time Lecturer
email i.mansaku@cit.edu.al
Research interests International Finance, Financial Markets, Corporate Finance, Financial and Managerial Accounting, Financial Planning and Forecasting, Digital Government, Performance Monitoring and Citizen Feedback Evaluation