Dr. Yiorgos Alexopoulos has been working at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens since 2002. He holds an BSc./MSc. in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from the Agricultural University of Athens, an MSc. in Regional Development from the Panteion University of Social Sciences in Athens and a PhD in Social Sciences from the Management Centre of the University of Leicester. Since 2007, he has taught in Post Graduate Programmes at the Agricultural University of Athens and since 2011 at the Department of Economics of the University of Trento, Italy, the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, Greece, and the Technological University of Pireaus. He has also taught courses on “Co-operative Economics”, “Business Finance”, “Rural Development Policies”, “Agricultural Economics”, and “Common Agricultural Policy” for the undergraduate students of the Department.

His research interests are in the fields of social economy and co-operatives, with emphasis on financial co-operatives and social finance, local finance, and business finance as well as in rural and local development. He has worked on behalf of the University on several issues concerning the implementation of European regulations and development programmes.