Dubravka Pekanov is a full-time professor at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek, employed at the Department of Finance and Accounting. Her main areas of research are energy economics and controlling. She teaches several courses at the undergraduate, graduate and university specialist study levels. She published more than 50 scientific papers independently or in co-authorship and participated in the work of a number of scientific meetings in the country and abroad. Since 2021, she has been a collaborator on the project of the Croatian Science Foundation called “Economic challenges of the transition towards low-carbon growth”. As for her professional involvement, she actively prepares feasibility studies (with cost-benefit analysis), investment studies and development strategies, such as, for example, the preparation of the Feasibility Study for the construction of the Regional Center for Digitization and Development (2020), Analyses of strategic sectors in the area Vukovar-Srijem County (2020) and Study of the justification of granting a concession for the performance of chimney sweeps in the area of the City of Osijek (2016). Since 2019, she has been the head of the lifelong learning program “Cost-benefit analysis”, and since 2023 she has been the head of the Financial Management study program and head of the Business Excellence Center at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Osijek.
