Associate
Professor
Department of Banking and Financial Management
University of Piraeus
B.Sc. (Economics, AUEB)
M.Sc. (Mathematical Economics and Econometrics, London
School of Economics)
Ph.D. (Financial Derivatives, University of Warwick)
George Skiadopoulos is Associate Professor in Financial
Derivatives in the Department of Banking and Financial Management
of the University of Piraeus.
He is also an Associate Research Fellow at the Financial
Options Research Centre (FORC) of the University of Warwick
and an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow in the Faculty
of Finance, Cass Business
School, City University, London. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial
Derivatives from the University of Warwick, and an M.Sc. in
Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School
of Economics.
During the period 1995-99, he worked as a Research Fellow
in FORC undertaking projects supported by the Centre's Corporate
Members such as Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Foreign and Colonial,
HSBC, Kleinwort Benson Securities, Price Waterhouse &
Coopers, Robert Fleming, SBC Warwburg, Tokyo Mitsubishi International,
and the Central Bank of Austria. From 1999 until 2000
he worked in the Research and Development Department of the
Athens Derivatives Exchange
(ADEX). He has also acted as a consultant to hedge funds
and leading Greek financial institutions such as ADEX, Alpha
Bank, Emporiki Bank, Hellenic Petroleum Company, and others.
His research and teaching interests lie in the areas of
alternative investments, financial economics, financial derivatives,
portfolio management, and risk management.
He has published in academic journals and books, such as
the Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative
Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, International Journal
of Forecasting, etc and he is a speaker in international
conferences. He has taught undergaduate and postgraduate courses
in Exeter University, Queen Mary University of London, University
of Warwick, Athens University of Economics and Business, Open
Hellenic University and the National and Kapodestrian University
of Athens. He has also taught a number of executive training
courses in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the
editorial boards of the Journal of Business Finance and
Accounting (JBFA) and Journal of Derivatives.
He also serves in the Academic Advisory Council of the Professional
Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA). He is
currently co-organising with Professor Gikas Hardouvelis the
seminar
series of the Department of Banking and Financial Management
of the University of Piraeus.
