Andreas Drichoutis is a Professor of Consumer Behavior. He received his undergraduate diploma in Agricultural Economics in 2002 and a postgraduate degree in Agribusiness Management (MBA) in 2004 from Agricultural University of Athens. In 2004, after spending a semester at Texas A&M University, he continued his studies in AUA pursuing a PhD which he completed in 2008. Prior to joining the Department of Agricultural Economics at Agricultural University of Athens, he was a faculty member at the Department of Economics at University of Ioannina for 4 years. Based on IDEAS RePEc’s ranking list, he is currently ranked at the Top 10% of economists globally and at the Top 4% of economists in Greece (this ranking takes into account only publications in the last 10 years, for authors registered with the RePEc Author Service).
Dr. Drichoutis is or had been working for several EU and national projects. He has also worked as a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations as well as for a project funded by United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and Women Empowerment. His research interests are focused on, but not limited to, the economics of nutrition/obesity, contingent valuation and experimental auctions methods to elicit consumers’ valuations, choice under risk, inter-temporal decision making and applied demand analysis. Most of his research applies experimental economics methods to answer questions relevant for agricultural economists and decision scientists.
He has published >50 peer reviewed papers in several scientific journals including The Economic Journal, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of the Economic Science Association, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Econometric Reviews, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Economic Psychology, Judgement and Decision Making, Journal of Economic Surveys, Kyklos, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy, Economics Letters, Southern Economic Journal, Journal of Wine Economics, Economic Modelling, Empirical Economics etc. His work has been cited at least 2,400 times in journals such as Science, Nature Human Behavior, Games and Economic Behavior, Experimental Economics, Economics Letters, Health Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Management Science, Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Journal of Risk and Uncertainty etc.
Dr. Drichoutis is a regular reviewer for many field journals like the European Review of Agricultural Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Food Policy etc. as well as for experimental economics journals like the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Journal of Economic Psychology etc. His verified reviewer profile can be found online at publons.
Professor Stavros Zografakis has a Bachelor of Science degree (BSc) (1985) and a Ph.D. (1997) from the Department of Economic Sciences of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. He has lectured at the Department of Economics of the University of Patras. He has worked as an adviser at the Economic Office of the Prime Minister, of the Minister of Employment and Social Security (on employment and social exclusion issues) and of the Assistant Minister of External Affairs. He is currently teaching Theory and Policies of International Trade, Macroeconomic Theory and Political Economy.
His academic and professional interests are in the areas of general equilibrium models, social account matrices, income distribution, Inequality and Poverty, Migration, Consumer Prices and International Competitiveness.
Pavlos Karanikolas is a graduate of the Agricultural University of Athens (B.Sc., Ph.D.) and the Regional Development Institute (M.Sc.). He’s currently a Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the AUA. He teaches Introduction to Economic Theory, Political Economy, Economics of European Integration (undergraduate) and Rural Development Policies (graduate). He has taken part to national and EU research Projects such as “Farming Transitions: Pathways Towards Regional Sustainability of Agriculture in Europe” (“FarmPath”, EU-FP7), and “Small farms, small food businesses and sustainable food security” (“SALSA”, EU-Horizon 2020).
His areas of interest include the political economy of agriculture, rural development, the design and implementation of rural development policies, as well as transition to sustainability.
Professor Klonaris is a Professor of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. His research interests are focused on the economics of food policy and quality, modelling agricultural markets and on Common Agricultural Policy issues. He is teaching Quantitative Methods, Applied Statistics and Microeconomic Analysis II at the undergraduate level and Applied Statistics and Microeconomic Analysis at postgraduate level. Dr Klonaris received his PhD from Reading University. Prior to joining the agricultural University of Athens, he has working for the Ministry of Rural Development & Food as member of the Greek delegation responsible for the fiscal policy an as consultant in the private sector.
His research interests are focused on the economics of food policy and quality, modelling agricultural markets and on Common Agricultural Policy issues.
Mr. Chrysovalantis Malesios is an Associate Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, and teaches courses in the fields of statistics / econometrics and mathematics.
He has worked at the Department of Rural Development, Democritus University of Thrace for 10 years as a laboratory specialist and as a statistician at the Institute of Statistical Research, Analysis and Documentation of the Athens University of Economics and Business.
He has published over 60 papers in international peer-reviewed journals such as: British Journal of Management, Ecological Economics, Ecological Indicators, Statistics in Medicine, Journal of Cleaner Production, PLOS ONE, Business Strategy and the Environment, Annals of Operations Research, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Scientometrics, Journal of Socio-Economics, European Societies and South European Society and Politic.
His primary research interests include the application of classical and newer statistical/econometric methods and approaches in the following scientific fields: Environmental data, environmental economics, epidemiological data with emphasis on zoonoses and their transmission mechanisms in space and time, sustainable development, environmental responsibility, sustainability indicators, forestry data.
Dr. Achilleas Vassilopoulos is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics of the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece. He holds an BSc, an MBA and a PhD in consumer theory from the same department and has served as as a tenured assistant professor at the Department of Economics, University of Ioannina, Greece and a visiting scholar at the University of Arkansas, USA (Dale Bumpers College, Dept. of Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness). He has worked a consultant-economist for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) and has participated in more than ten EU-funded projects on behalf of both public and private institutes in Greece and abroad.
His research interest focuses on the analysis of economic behavior using quantitative and experimental methods. His academic work has been published in journals such as Economic Modelling, Economics Letters, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Journal of Applied Statistics, Journal of Consumer Affairs, European Review of Agricultural Economics and others.
Konstantinos Chatzimichael is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the Agricultural University of Athens. Since 2010, he holds a PhD in Economics from the Department of Economics of the University of Crete. During the academic year 2006-07, he was an exchange visitor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Sociology at Penn State University, USA. From 2012 to 2019, he worked as a Specialist Scientist at the Department of Commerce, Finance, and Shipping at the Cyprus University of Technology. His research interests focus on Applied Microeconomics, Production Economics, Agricultural Economics, Economics of Productivity and Innovation, and Panel Data Econometrics. His research has been published in peer reviewed academic journals. He has also participated in several research projects funded from the EU.
His research interests focus on Applied Microeconomics, Production Economics, Agricultural Economics, Economics of Productivity and Innovation, and Panel Data Econometrics.
- MSc in Waste management, Hellenic Open University
- BSc in Management of rural environment and natural resources, University of Thessaly
Ioannis Goussios is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff at the Laboratory of Political Economy and European Integration. He has a BSc in Agricultural Economics from the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development – Agricultural University of Athens and a MSc in Agricultural Policy from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (M.A.I.Ch.). Since 2004, he has taught in courses on “Macroeconomics”, “Farm Management”, “Agricultural Investment Appraisal” for the undergraduate students of the Department.