Associate
Professor (elected)
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 (elected) 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.
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 Energy Economics, European Financial Management Journal,
International Journal of Forecasting, International Journal
of Theoretical and Applied Finance, Journal of Alternative
Investments, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Futures
Markets, Journal of Risk Finance, RISK, Review of Derivatives
Research, and is a speaker in international conferences.
He has also taught a number of executive training courses
in Greece and abroad. He is a member of the editorial board
of the Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
(JBFA) and serves in the Academic Advisory Council of the
Professional Risk Managers International Association
(PRMIA).
