Milan Vemic, Ph.D., is a Serbian economist and serves as Associate Professor of Economics, "Union - Nikola Tesla University", Faculty of Business Studies and Law in Belgrade. He is also a member of IGI Global’s Editorial Advisory Review Board. He served earlier as chairman of council, vice-dean of scientific research and taught economics and finance on graduate and postgraduate courses in several countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Community of Independent States (CIS). He has authored 5 books in economics and finance, edited 2 SME monographs and reviewed several other books in finance and entrepreneurship. He has published over 100 scientific works in learned and professional publications relating to SMEs, entrepreneurship, regional and rural development, development of capital markets, financial management, venture capital, microfinance, business development and project management. As keynote speaker he presented papers at many industry forums and conferences in: Bishkek, Aktobe, Belgrade, Subotica, Novi Sad, Rotterdam, Sofia, Tekirdağ (Turkey), Brașov (Romania), Bratislava, Košice. Vemić served as a senior international development consultant and SME expert on many USAID and EU economic development projects focusing on finance for SMEs, financing Regional and Local Economic Development. Milan is a member of Central Eurasian Studies Society and of Cluster House Serbia. Among his awards is a professional Excellence Award, Center for Social Welfare of the municipality of Stara Pazova, Serbia, which was a beneficiary of the 2001-2003 CARE International Project which he managed. In 1990 he was awarded the US Congress CSCE Commission Certificate of Outstanding Performance Commendation for assistance during the Helsinki Commission’s visit to Yugoslavia.