Athanasios Kampas is Professor at the Agricultural University of Athens. He teaches environmental economics at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development. He holds an MSc from the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh) and a Ph.D. from the University Newcastle upon Tyne (UK).
His research interests include the design and analysis of environmental policy.
Mr. Christos Papadas is a graduate of the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), holder of a postgraduate degree (M.Sc.) and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Agricultural and Applied Economics, which he received from the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (USA). He has worked as a researcher at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at Queen’s University in Northern Ireland as a full faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programs.
His works have been published in international scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences. Mr. Papadas teaches (co-teaching) the undergraduate, compulsory courses “Agricultural Product Price Analysis” (8th semester), “Rural Development Theory and Policy” (9th semester) and the postgraduate courses “Applied Microeconomics” and "Agro-Economics in Of agricultural development".
His research interests are in the areas of development economics, rural development, input-output analysis, and the application of new quantitative methods to investigate the impact of economic policies on rural development, economic convergence, and income distribution.
Elias Giannakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens. He holds a Ph.D. (2011), M.Sc. (2006) and BSc (2004) from the Agricultural University of Athens. Prior to joining the Agricultural University of Athens, he has worked as a Special Scientist at the Cyprus University of Technology, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Biotechnology and Food Science, as a Postdoctoral Researcher and Associate Research Scientist at the Cyprus Institute, Energy, Environment and Water Research Center, and as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cyprus, Economics Research Center. His research work has been published in high-ranking international journals such as Regional Studies, Papers in Regional Science, The Annals of Regional Science, European Planning Studies, Ecological Economics, Science of the Total Environment, Energy Strategy Reviews, Land Use Policy. He has participated as researcher in many national and European research projects.
His research interests include regional economics, quantitative methods in regional development, rural development, design and implementation of regional development policies, productivity and environment.
Mrs. E. Oikonomopoulou is a graduate of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, holder of a Master of Science in Economic and Regional Development of the Department of Economic and Regional Development of Panteion University. Her scientific interests focus on rural and regional development and she has participated as a collaborator in European Research Programs, prepared at the Laboratory of Rural Economic Development, with Professor S. Efstratoglou as scientific supervisor. He also participates in the educational work of the Laboratory with the support of the laboratory exercises and the works of the students.
Her scientific interests focus on rural and regional development.