Prof. Dr. Vitalina Babenko is Professor (Full) of International E-commerce and Hotel&Restaurant Business Department, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine), Dr. Sci. (habil.) in Economics, Ph.D. in Technical Sciences.

Her sphere of scientific interests includes the management of innovation processes, economic-mathematical modelling, information systems, and technologies. She has published around 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and in the proceedings of conferences. She has taken part in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a Chair, Keynote Speaker, member of the Scientific Program Committee, Organizer, and Session Chair.

She is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of International Relations, Economics, Country Studies, Tourism; International Journal of Economics and Management Systems and a member of editorial board of some scientific journals. She is a Member of the Doctoral Academic Councils in Economics, an Expert in the Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and an Expert of the Ukrainian Institute Scientific-Technical Information. Council many national and international informatics associations.