Vice-Rectors Vice-Rector for Science

Prof. Dr. Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska was born in 1981 in Skopje.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Economics at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in 2004, majoring in Financial Management, thus obtaining the academic degree of Bachelor of Economics.

She began her professional career in 2003 as a Business Assistant on the “Macedonian Corporate Governance and Company Law – CGCL” project, funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she organized training sessions for joint-stock companies and roundtable discussions for stakeholders concerning the implementation of the Company Law. From 2005 to 2014, she served as Coordinator of the bilateral project “Building Capacity for Macedonian Policy Formulation and Economic Analysis in the Agricultural Sector,” funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and implemented jointly by the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala. In this capacity, she was responsible for coordinating project activities, preparing budgets, and managing financial and narrative reporting.

She completed her postgraduate master’s studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in 2009, specializing in Agroeconomics, and obtained the academic degree of Master of Agricultural Sciences.

Since 2009, she has been employed as a Teaching Assistant at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. She has subsequently advanced through all academic ranks in succession, being appointed Assistant Professor in 2015, Associate Professor in 2020, and Full Professor in 2025, in the field of Agroeconomics.

She completed her doctoral studies at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in 2015, obtaining the academic degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences. In her doctoral dissertation, she developed a model for the application of multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) and the optimization of agricultural production using mathematical programming techniques, based on accounting data from agricultural holdings.

From June 2021 to September 2026, she served as Vice-Dean for International Cooperation and Finance at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje. In this capacity, she was responsible for mobility programs, international research projects, bilateral agreements, and international conferences, as well as for the Faculty’s financial planning, management, and reporting. Since 2024, she has served as Secretary of the Association of Faculties of Agricultural Sciences in Southeast Europe, where she is responsible for the administrative and technical aspects of its operations.

In September 2026, she was elected Vice-Rector for Research at the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje for the 2026–2029 term of office.

As part of her teaching activities at the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food in Skopje, she teaches at all three cycles of study. At the first cycle, she teaches Farm Accounting, Business Analysis, and Introduction to Operations Research; at the second cycle, Mathematical and Statistical Methods, Accounting in Agribusiness, and Project Management; and at the third cycle, Business Systems in Agriculture. She is the author of the textbook Farm Accounting (2024) and has supervised numerous undergraduate theses.

She has further enhanced her professional competencies through specialized training programs in North Macedonia and abroad, including the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) Cochran Fellowship Program at the Department of Agribusiness of California State University, Fresno, USA (2013); training in agro-economic modeling and optimization using GAMS in Madrid (ETSIA, 2013) and Vienna (Maindl Consulting, 2012); as well as training in econometrics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. In 2021–2022, she was certified by the German Sparkassenstiftung for International Cooperation as a trainer in promoting financial literacy through simulation-based games, including Farmers Business Games and Savings Games.

She has led or actively participated in the implementation of approximately 60 research and development projects funded through various programs and by a range of donors, including Horizon Europe, H2020, FP7, Erasmus+, COST, TEMPUS, Interreg IPA CBC, Interreg Europe, Interreg Euro-MED, EuropeAid, EIT Food, FAO, UNDP, UN Women, UNOPS, the World Bank, SDC, SIDA, USAID, JRC, and others, in cooperation with foreign universities and international institutions. She has served as Project Coordinator for the BEAMING project (Horizon Europe, 2024–2027), “Empowering Digital Agriculture” (CMSR, 2025–2026), RENAISSANCE (Interreg IPA CBC, 2021–2023), and CONSE PP (Interreg IPA CBC, 2018–2021).

She has been engaged as an expert in the preparation of numerous studies and analyses for the needs of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, as well as for international institutions. These include the preparation of the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2014–2020 (FAO); the introduction of Common Market Organization (CMO) measures and the reform of the tobacco sector (EuropeAid); the calculation of production costs for selected agricultural products in her capacity as a national consultant for FAO; analyses of agricultural policies in EU candidate countries for the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development; the mid-term evaluation of the National Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development 2021–2027 (World Bank); as well as the “Agriculture and Agricultural Land” section of the Spatial Plan of the Republic of North Macedonia 2021–2040. She also has experience in evaluating project applications within sub-granting schemes, including those implemented by the Rural Development Network, UNOPS, and other organizations.

Prof. Dr. Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska has published more than 40 scientific papers in international and national scientific journals and conference proceedings, including papers published in journals indexed with an impact factor. She is also the author or co-author of more than 40 books, textbooks, monograph chapters, and studies, including publications issued by the European Commission (JRC and DG AGRI), the FAO, UN Women, and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy.

She is particularly active in knowledge transfer to practitioners through numerous training programs and workshops aimed at farmers, agricultural advisors, rural women, and young people, covering topics such as farm accounting, cost calculations and production costing, financial literacy, project cycle management, value chain analysis, and knowledge valorization in the bioeconomy.

She serves on numerous committees and working bodies, including the National Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN), the Working Group on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment within the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Economy, and others. She is a member of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), the Association of Faculties of Agricultural Sciences in Southeast Europe, and the Association of Agricultural Economists of the Republic of North Macedonia.

Prof. Dr. Ivana Janeska Stamenkovska’s areas of research and professional interest are in the field of agroeconomics, with a particular focus on farm accounting and the analysis of the economic performance of agricultural holdings, cost calculations and the production costs of agricultural products, multi-criteria decision-making and the optimization of agricultural production, agricultural labor, as well as agricultural policy and rural development.