George Skiadopoulos

George's research interests lie in the areas of commodities, empirical asset pricing, financial derivatives and portfolio management. He has published in academic journals such as the Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance, International Journal of Forecasting, and others. He serves in the editorial boards of the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Commodity Markets, Journal of Derivatives and Multinational Finance Journal.

George is currently part-time at Queen Mary and he is also a Professor at the University of Piraeus in the Department of Banking and Financial Management. He is the Director and co-Founder of the Institute of Finance and Financial Regulation, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School, City University of London. George holds a BSc. from the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business, an MSc. in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of Economics, and a PhD. from the University of Warwick.

Before joining academia, George worked in the Athens Derivatives Exchange. He has also acted as a consultant to various financial institutions and he has provided a number of executive training courses. His research has received a number of grants from organizations like the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, the J.P. Morgan Centre of Commodities, University of Colorado at Denver, the Athens Derivatives Exchange, the Portuguese Ministry of Technology, and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio (Italy) and it has received media coverage by Forbes, Market Watch, Seeking Alpha, and the Wall Street Journal. George has also served as an evaluator for a number of grants including the prestigious Onassis Prize in Finance and he has also served in the Academic Advisory Board of the Professional Risk Managers International Association (PRMIA).