Dr Georgakopoulos is a graduate of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens in Greece. He received both his MSc in Business Economics and his doctorate in Accounting from Strathclyde University Business School in the UK. Georgios’ work has appeared amongst others and most notably in top tier accounting journals such as: Accounting Organizations & Society (ABS rank: 4*); International Journal of Accounting, Auditing & Taxation (ABS rank: 3); Accounting & Business Research (ABS rank: 3); Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal; Accounting Forum (ABS rank: 3); Public Money & Management (ABS rank: 2); and in book chapters in prominent international research volumes. His research interests are in the areas of: the Jurisdictional Expansion of the Accounting Profession; Social and Environmental Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility; Sustainability Assurance; Capital Markets and Financial Accounting. Georgios’ teaching is focused on Financial Accounting and in specific on International Financial Reporting Standards at undergraduate, specialised postgraduate and MBA programmes. He has also taught amongst others: Basic; Intermediate; and Advanced Financial Accounting; Accounting & Finance; Management & Cost Accounting; Financial Statement Analysis & Firm Valuation; Banking Management; and Sustainability, Accountability & Ethics.
Professor Antonios N. Rezitis graduated from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens in 1986. He earned two Master degrees, one in Agricultural Economics (MSc) from Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey, USA) in 1990 and the other in Economics (MA) from the National University of North Carolina. (North Carolina State University, NCSU, USA), in 1991. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources Economics of the National University of North Carolina, USA (Department of Agricultural and Recourse Economics, NCSU, USA), 1995.
For the period from September 1995 to June 1997, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Natural Resources Economics at the National University of North Carolina, USA. During the period from March 1998 to August 2000, he taught as a Specialist in various University Departments of the country, namely in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, Department of Agriculture of the University of Thessaly and Department of University Economics.
In August 2000 he was appointed Lecturer with the subject “Economic Theory and Quantitative Methods” at the Department of Economics of the University of Ioannina. In 2002 he was appointed Assistant Professor in “Economics” at the Department of Business Administration of Agricultural Products and Food of the University of Patras based in the city of Agrinio. In September 2008 he was promoted to Associate Professor and then in May 2013 to Professor with the subject “Economy and Rural Economy” in the same Department and served this Department until July 2018.
In July 2018 he was appointed Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. From January 2015 to January 2018 he held the position of Professor with the subject “Agricultural Policy” at the Department of Economics and Organization of the University of Helsinki (Finland). He has taught a wide range of courses in Agricultural Economics and Economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
His research focuses on Rural Economy, Price Transmission and Volatility, Price Analysis and Market Structure, Efficiency, Technological Changes and Productivity Analysis, Convergence, Supply and Demand Analysis. He has taught a wide range of courses in Agricultural Economics and Economics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.
Dr Tsimpoukas Konstantinos is Professor of the Laboratory of Agribusiness Management, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development in the Agricultural University of Athens for more than 30 years. Full member of the Hellenic Agricultural Academy – Department of Economic and Social Sciences.
He is a graduate from the Agricultural University of Athens and has a M.Sc. from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier , D.E.A. and a Ph.D. in Planning of Rural Areas of Montpellier III University, France.
During the period 2010-2011 he was Chairman of the Board. of the National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF), while in the period 2014-2016 he served as President of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development at the Agricultural University of Athens and Director of the Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program “Entrepreneurship and Consulting in Rural Development” during the periods 2014-2016 and 2018 until 2020. For the period 2019-2022, he has been elected Dean of the School of Economics and Social Sciences of the Agricultural University of Athens. Also for the period 2023-2025 he has been elected, by vote of the members of the University Council, as Dean of the Faculty.
He teaches at undergraduate and postgraduate level, calculation of cost and economic results of agricultural production systems, decision-making during the implementation of productive activities in the agricultural sector.
His research interests focus on the analysis of economic results of agricultural activity and the investigation of economic viability in agricultural production and especially in complex problems of animal production. He has a significant number of international publications in the technical-economic analysis of the production systems of the primary sector and in the construction of models for decision-making in agricultural enterprises as well as for the evaluation of Agricultural Policy measures. Finally, he has a large number of participations in competing research programs (international and national) either as a scientific officer or as a researcher, in respective research subjects.
Mrs. Angelidou is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. She holds a Ph.D from the School of Management of the University of Leeds (Ph.D. 2017). She has worked as a researcher at the University of Manchester and as an associate professor at the University of Liverpool. Her research work has been published in prestigious scientific journals such as Research Policy (ABS:4*, Impact Factor: 9.473), Journal of Operational Research (ABS: 4-rated, Impact Factor: 6.363), Technological Forecasting and Social Change (ABS: 3- rated, Impact Factor: 10.884), Technovation (ABS: 3-rated, Impact Factor: 11.373), Journal of Business Research (ABS: 3-rated, Impact Factor: 10.969), Industrial Marketing Management (ABS: 3-rated, Impact Factor: 8.890), and European Journal of Marketing (ABS: 3-rated, Impact Factor: 4.647).
Her work has been presented in scientific journals of international prestige such as the Academy of Management, Druid, the British Academy of Management, etc.
Dimitris Kremmydas is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Ftaff in the Laboratory of Agribusiness Management, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development in the Agricultural University of Athens. He has a BSc from Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development (Agricultural University of Athens) and from the Department of Informatics (Hellenic Open University). He also has a MSc on Integrated Rural Development. He has s PhD in the field of agent based modeling for agricultural policy evaluation. His current activity on the department includes technical support and software development (GIS, Matlab, C, Java).
His research interests include farm level economic modeling, operations research in farm management and agent based modeling.
E. Nellas is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Laboratory of Agribusiness Management in Department of Agricultural Economics & Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens. He has a BSc in Agricultural Economics from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – Agricultural University of Athens, a Postgraduate Diploma Specialization in Agricultural Economics “D.S.P.U.” from Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (I.A.M.M.) and a Postgraduate Diploma Specialization in the Agricultural Applied Statistics and Computer Science. He has worked as researcher in the Agriculture University of Athens and he has taught courses with regard to PC use in programs of Postgraduate Training and in Private Technical Schools. He has participated in projects regarding the Rural Development and Farm Management, with emphasis in the Statistical Analysis of Economics Data with use of PC and in the Creation of completed Informative systems. From 2002, he teaches the laboratorial exercises of course “Research Methods in Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology” that is related with the Analysis of Data with use of SPSS/PC for Windows.
He has participated in projects regarding the Rural Development and Farm Management, with emphasis in the Statistical Analysis of Economics Data with use of PC and in the Creation of completed Informative systems.