Faculty

He earned his B.A. in economics from Athens University of Economics and Business and he holds a PhD from Panteion University. His main research interests are in the areas of economic growth, Microeconomics and non linear models. He has worked for organizations including the Asian  Development Bank, Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), The World Bank, the EU, the General Secretariat of Research and Technology  and the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong.

Dr. Paris Cleanthous is the director of the MBA and MPSM programmes at the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) and professor of Strategy and Marketing. At the same time, he is a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Open University Cyprus. Dr. Cleanthous received his B.Sc. in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He then continued his studies at Yale University where he received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Economics. Prior to CIIM, Dr. Cleanthous held academic positions at New York University’s Stern School of Business (2003-2007) and at the University of Cyprus (2007-2012). He has also held positions at the International Monetary Fund and Korea University and has taught and presented in a multitude of universities and organizations worldwide.His fields of research and teaching are strategic growth, strategic innovation, marketing strategy, competitive advertising and market research, specializing mainly in the tourism and health-care industries.He has consultancy and training experience in global, multinational, SME, and start-up, private and public organizations, on strategy, innovation, marketing, and business intelligence. He also has consultancy experience in governmental and semi-governmental organizations and in academic forums. He is currently serving on the Board of Governors of the Cyprus Tourism Organization (CTO).

She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus. Her research interests lie in the areas of financial derivatives, financial economics, alternative investments, portfolio management and asset pricing.  She has published in academic journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability and Journal of Empirical Finance.

Associate Professor of Applied Econometrics Margarita Genius has mostly taught Econometrics and Statistics both at the graduate and undergraduate level at the University of Crete, the University of Michigan and the Southern Methodist University. Her work has been published in journals such as Economics Letters, American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Environmental and Resource Economics.

He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Crete and his M.Sc. in Economics from the University of York (UK). He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Crete. He specializes in International Finance and his research has been published in reputable international academic journals.

Christos is Associate Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. His research addresses issues related to university-based innovation, research commercialization, technology transfer, university-industry collaboration, venture capital and other forms of entrepreneurial finance. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Kauffman Foundation and has been published in leading journals including Review of Economics and Statistics, Organization Science, Research Policy , Journal of Business Venturing and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.

He obtained his PhD from Athens University of Economics and Business. He has 15 years of teaching experience in higher education in Greece and Cyprus, while his research interests are Applied Macroeconomics, Open Economy Macroeconomics, European Economic Integration and Time Series Analysis. 

Constantine Manasakis is economist (MBA, PhD), Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Crete, Adjunct Professor at the Master in Business Administration (MΒΑ), Hellenic Open University, and Research Affiliate at the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.

He holds a B.A. from the Department of Economics, University of Athens, the Joint Engineering-Economics MBA from the School of Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, and Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Economics, University of Crete.

His current professional interests focus on the following topics:
Industrial organization: Corporate Social Responsibility; Business Innovations and Technological Policy; Mergers & Acquisitions and Competition Policy; Corporate Governance
Smart Specialisation: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Discovery Process; Management of Start-Ups
Economics of Tourism: Sustainable Development of Coastal Tourist Areas; Impact of Climate Change on Tourism
Economics of Production: Measuring Productivity and Efficiency
Labour Economics: Industrial Relations
(For a detailed list of publications, see: https://sites.google.com/site/constantinemanasakis/research) 

In these fields, he has publications in international scientific journals, has provided consulting services to businesses and organizations and participated in national and international research and development projects.

I am the Founder and Head of TECHNIS, an interdisciplinary research organisation that works on innovation and intellectual property. We bring together practitioners and academics whose work focuses on all aspects of intellectual property (IP), involving the management of IP, the legal and economic aspects of IP, its history and its social implications.

I hold a PhD from UCL, I lectured economics at Lancaster Management School and the University of Bristol, I was an RTN scholar at the University of Toulouse, and a visiting scholar at the Law Department, University of Oxford, and the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven. Building on a lifelong interest on the forces that shape innovation, I employ the tools of management science and economics to rethink the role of patents as R&D incentives. Currently, the emphasis of my work is on Artificial Intelligence, paying particular attention to the field of pharmaceutical innovation. My research has been published in management journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives and The Economic Journal.

My teaching at TIME focuses on MBE5304: Use of Innovation and Knowledge in R&D Intensive Firms.

He is Professor of Industrial Organization and Head of the Business Economics and New Technologies Laboratory. He holds a BA in Marine Engineering and a PhD in Economics from UCLA. He was vice-Rector of Economic Planning and Development of the University of Crete. He was Visiting Professor in various European Universities (Tilburg U, Erasmus U, U Carlos III de Madrid, U Cyprus and Koc U). 

I am a legal scholar and Intellectual Property advisor. I have a strong interest in patent law and governance in the field of biotechnology. I find fascinating the relationship between DNA, medicines, transgenic animals and bacteria, and property law. In the past, I was associate research fellow at the University of Oxford, I lectured Intellectual Property Law at the University of Exeter (UK) and completed my PhD at the LSE.

Professor of Microeconomic Theory and Policy at the University of Crete and also holds a part-time appointment in Hellenic Open University teaching in their MBA course. He has received grants from the European Commission, the World Bank, the Greek Ministry of Agriculture, and the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology to support his past and ongoing research. He has been interviewed and quoted by local, national and international news media, including the BBC International, Greek Public TV, and the regional Creta TV.

He holds a PhD in Economics from Yale University. His research in the areas of pricing, price discrimination, information intermediaries and consumer behavior has been published in highly regarded international journals. He has advised the government of Cyprus on policy issues and serves as an independent, non-executive director on two company boards.

He studied Economics at the University of Cambridge (BA 1992, MA 1996) and Business Administration (MBA 1994) and Economics (MSc 1997, PhD 1999) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is currently the Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Management. He has been a member of the Board of the Cooperative Bank of Police Officers and Military Personnel and the Board for Educational Exchange between the US and Cyprus (Fulbright Board)

Andros Kourtellos is an Associate Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics at the University of Cyprus. He is a member of the Inequality: Measurement, Interpretation, and Policy network of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group (HCEO) of the University of Chicago. He is also a senior fellow of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) of the University of Bologna and member of the academic council of the Economic Research Centre (ERC) of the University of Cyprus.

His primary research interests are in the areas of econometrics, inequality, social mobility, economic growth, macroeconomic forecasting. His econometric contributions include both theory and applications using nonlinear models, model averaging methods, and mixed sampling frequencies.  He developed estimation and inference for a threshold regression model that allows for an endogenous threshold variable as well as for endogenous regressors. These models are particularly useful for the estimation of multiple equilibria and poverty traps. Recently, he employed this class of models to uncover status traps in the intergenerational mobility process. His work has been published in journals such as Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and Journal of Econometrics.

Kourtellos earned a B.Sc. in Economics at the University of Cyprus in 1996 and a M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2001. He held a visiting appointment at Virginia Tech during 2001-2002.

Professor Oude Lansink holds an Msc and PhD from Wageningen University. He is the head of the Business Economics group of Wageningen University and director of the Wageningen Graduate school of Social Sciences (WASS). He has published over 220 refereed journal articles and has acted as guest editor of leading international refereed economics journals. Also, he was previously a member of the editorial board of Agronomy Journal and the European Review of Agricultural Economics. He is also currently a visiting professor of the Wroclaw University of Economics (Poland) and adjunct professor of the University of Florida.

I am a legal scholar and Intellectual Property advisor. I have a strong interest in patent law and governance in the field of biotechnology. I find fascinating the relationship between DNA, medicines, transgenic animals and bacteria, and property law. In the past, I was associate research fellow at the University of Oxford, I lectured Intellectual Property Law at the University of Exeter (UK) and completed my PhD at the LSE.

He holds degrees in Economics (BSc University of York, MSc and PhD University of Leicester, Post Doc UCL). He is a labor economist where he specializes on immigration and on investment in human capital. He has worked on projects funded by the European Commission, the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Home Office, the Boston College Centre for Retirement Research, and the U.S. Social Security Administration

Completed his PhD at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. His research focuses mainly on the analysis of social and economic networks, with applications including the effect of social networks on the efficient propagation of products and innovations, as well as on the characteristics of R&D collaborations networks. Prior to joining the department he worked at SUTD-MIT International Design Center in Singapore and has also been a visiting researcher at University of Cambridge and University College London

He received his PhD in economics from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. His academic interests lie in the fields of decision theory and political economics and his research has been published in various journals of economics and political science, including the Journal of Economic Theory, the International Economic Review and the American Journal of Political Science.