Professor George Skiadopoulos, IF^FR Director | University of Piraeus & Queen Mary University of London | Conference Organizer

George Skiadopoulos is the Director of the Institute of Finance and Financial Regulation. He is a Professor of Finance in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus and a Professor of Finance in the School of Economics and Finance of Queen Mary University of London. He is also an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at the Business School, City University of London.

His research interests and professional expertise lie in the fields of asset pricing, commodities, financial derivatives, risk management and portfolio management. He has published in leading academic journals, such as the Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.

He is a speaker in international conferences and seminars for academics and practitioners, and he provides executive training courses. He has been acting as a consultant to several financial institutions. He has also worked as a Research Fellow at the Financial Options Research Centre at Warwick Business School, and at the R&D Group of the Athens Derivatives Exchange.

His work has been awarded research grants by leading institutions, such as, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the J.P. Morgan Research Centre in Commodities at University of Denver Colorado, the Athens Derivatives Exchange, and the Portuguese State and it has been featured in the Research Digest Volumes of CFA, Citigroup, and Global Commodities, and in Economonitor, Columbia Law School's Blue Sky Blog, CFO Magazine, Forbes, Market Watch, Seeking Alpha, The Verdict and Wall Street Journal.

Professor Skiadopoulos holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Warwick, an M. Sc. In Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics and a Ptychion (ranked first in his graduating class) in Economics from the Athens University of Economics and Business.