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George Skiadopoulos

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Professor

Email: g.skiadopoulos@qmul.ac.uk
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/george-skiadopoulos
Office Hours: By appointment

Profile

Research interests: Commodities, Empirical asset pricing, Financial Derivatives, Portfolio Management.

George Skiadopoulos is Professor of Finance in the School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London. He is also a Professor of Finance at the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus. He is the co-Founder and Director of the Institute of Finance and Financial Regulation (IFFR), and an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Bayes Business School, City University of London.  He is a member of the Consultative Working Group on Investor Trends & Research of the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) Risk Standing Committee, the supra-national supervisor of European financial markets.  

 

His research interests and professional expertise lie in the fields of asset management & asset pricing, climate finance & ESG, commodities and financial derivatives.  He has published in leading academic journals, including Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and The Accounting Review.

 

He is a member of the editorial board of a number of academic journals including the Journal of Banking and Finance, a speaker at international conferences and seminars for academics and practitioners, and he provides executive training courses.  He has acted as a member of the Group of Economic Advisers to ESMA and as a consultant to several financial institutions. In the past, he had been employed 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.  He has also served on the Academic Advisory Board of the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA).  

 

He has been awarded research grants by several institutions and his research has been impactful attracting the attention of academics, policy makers, investors, and media.

 

Professor Skiadopoulos holds a Ph.D. 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.

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