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About Us

The West East Institute is a global scientific and academic learned society founded in 2012 for the purpose of disseminating the latest academic research on various business, economics, and social sciences-related topics. The scope of our mission has expanded to include many areas of academic knowledge, including geography, education, culture, and more.

Having established the Journal of WEI Business and Economics and the West East Journal of Social Sciences over 6 years ago, The West East Institute is becoming known for publishing quality research for the benefit of the global academic community. We also sponsor several international conferences annually attended by a diverse array of academics and professionals from many nations, cultures, and religions around the world. These conferences are intended to promote excellence in academic research and provide a platform for academics and researchers to share their completed and ongoing research and network with colleagues. It is also a welcoming environment for graduate students to present their work and receive valuable feedback.

Each conference has two broad tracks: Business, Economics, Finance, & Management; and Education, Humanities, & Social Sciences. At our conferences, not only may many nations of the world be seen in each session meeting room, but a diverse array of topics of enquiry may be encountered.

Our publications and conferences represent the community of nations. Diversity of culture, ethnicity, and religion is paired with a common, unifying purpose of excellence in science and philosophical enquiry. We look forward to seeing you soon at one of our several conferences held around the world each year!

Dr.Rutherford Johnson, PhD, ALM, FPRS, FRGS
University of Minnesota
General Conference Chair
West East Institute
staff@westeastinstitute.com
Bp. Rutherford Johnson-Roma-Rus', Ph.D., ALM, M.Sc., FRGS is an international executive leader, behavioral scientist, economist, and sustainability specialist. Harvard and Georgia Tech educated with lifelong international, multicultural experience, he serves as a senior lecturer of economics at the University of Minnesota’s Crookston campus and a fellow of the University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment. He holds a Ph.D. in agricultural economics with focus on behavioral/psychological economics from the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment, a Master of Liberal Arts in the field of sustainability from the Harvard University Extension School, and a M.Sc. and B.Sc. in economics and applied physics respectively from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). In 2018, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. In 2022, he was awarded the International Teaching Excellence Award for Region IV by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs. Outside of academia, he leads an international humanitarian corporation in special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council providing expert policy advice to the UN and government leaders around the world.