THE VALUE POSTULATES AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF TRANSITION SOCIETIES IN SOUTH EAST EUROPE

Ljupco Ristovski, INTEGRA - Institute for Virtues and Value Based Politics, Republic of Macedonia

Ljupco Ristovski, PhD, ThD is from Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. His education is three-fold i.e. graduated economist, politicologist and theologian with two doctorates; one in the field of political sciences from the European University Republic of Macedonia, and the other one is Doctoral Studies in Theology from the Atlantic Coast College of Religious Studies Florida, USA. Dr. Ristovski has been working for the last 15 years in the Government of the Republic of Macedonia as a State Counselor for policy analyses and co-ordination, for the last ten years and as head of different departments/units previously. His passion is preaching the Gospel and he is officially appointed lay preacher in the United Methodist Church in Skopje, Macedonia. He is leading two NGO's, i.e. INTEGRA - Institute for Virtues and Value-Based Politics and MARAN ATHA - Macedonian Christian Evangelical Mission. He is active in politics as well and is one of the first initiators and founders of the Front for Democratic Macedonia FRODEM. He is passionately working on uniting the right political block of parties and political associations and intellectuals. His working experience is in business as well. He is doing business in the field of petrochemicals, chemistry, and food.