EIMF Advisory Council

Advisory Council

Professor Kevin Featherstone

LSE

Kevin Featherstone is Professorial Research Fellow and Director of the Hellenic Observatory in the European Institute at LSE. He has held visiting positions at the University of Minnesota; New York University; Harvard University; and, the European University Institute (Firenze).

Before LSE, he held academic posts at the Universities of Stirling and Bradford. He was the first foreign member of the National Council for Research and Technology (ESET) in Greece, serving from 2010-2013. In 2013 he was made ‘Commander, Order of the Phoenix’ by the President of the Hellenic Republic and in 2021 has was bestowed the award of ‘Grand Commander, Order of the Phoenix’ of the Hellenic Republic. In 2014, the European Parliament selected one of his books (co-authored with Kenneth Dyson) as one of its ‘100 Books on Europe to Remember’. He has contributed regularly to international media on European and Greek politics.

Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou

Athens University Of Economics And Business

Helen Louri-Dendrinou studied at the Athens University of Economics and Business, (B.Sc. Econ), London School of Economics (M.Sc. Econ) and University of Oxford (D.Phil. Econ).

Her research interests are in the areas of Industrial Organization and Market Dynamics, Foreign Direct Investment and International Economics, Finance and Banking Strategy. She is Professor at the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business since 2001 and has been the Head of the Department in 2015-2020. She has worked as Associate Professor at the same Department and as Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics, where she remains as Research Associate. From June 2008 to June 2014 she was Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece responsible for monetary policy, bank resolution, statistics, the national mint and cash management. She was also president of the Hellenic Deposit Guarantee Fund.

Professor Christos Hadjiemmanuil

University of Piraeus and LSE

Prof. Christos Hadjiemmanuil is a Visiting Professor at LSE Law School, as well as a Professor of International and European Monetary and Financial Institutions at the University of Piraeus. He is a member of the Athens Bar Association.He studied law at Athens University (LLB.) and University College London (LL.M. and Ph.D.).

His first academic appointment was at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) of Queen Mary, University of London (QMW, as it was then known). In October 1997 he joined the LSE, where he served until December 2007 as Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Law.

A specialist in European and international financial law and regulation, he has acted as a consultant to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where he advised in the Global Bank Insolvency Initiative. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the UNDP’s Regional for Public Administration Reform (RCPAR) for Eastern Europe and the CIS. He has held a number of visiting academic and consultancy positions and is a member of the Monetary Law Committee of the International Law Association (MOCOMILA). His publications include a monograph on Banking Regulation and the Bank of England (LLP, 1996) and a collected volume on European Economic and Monetary Union: The Institutional Framework (co-editor, Kluwer, 1997). He was also a co-author of European Union Law (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006). He has written many articles and book chapters in the fields of UK, European and international banking and securities regulation, European Economic and Monetary Union and financial law reform.

From May 2004 until September 2007, he served as President and CEO of Hellenic Olympic Properties, the special-purpose company responsible for post-Olympic management of the Athens 2004 Olympic facilities. From September 2007 until December 2009, he was Chairman and CEO of the OPAP S.A., one of Greece’s largest public corporations. He has been President, and is now Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of the Athens-based Center for Political Research, Greece’s oldest non-governmental think-tank.

Professor Elena Antonacopoulou

Ivey Business School

Elena Antonacopoulou is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Strategy at Ivey Business School at Western University (Canada). Before joining Ivey, Elena held full-time faculty professorial appointments at the Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Warwick in the UK.

Her scientifically rigorous collaborative research in management and organization studies has earned her many research grants, awards and accolades recognising the impact of the ideas developed.

Her principal research expertise lies in the areas of Strategic Change, Organisational Learning and Resilience, Knowledge and Crisis Management with a focus on the Leadership implications. Elena’s work is published widely in international journals including: Academy of Management Learning and Education Journal, Journal of Management Studies, British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Inquiry, Management Learning. She has co-edited 5 books including two new volumes (Sensuous Learning for Practical Judgment in Professional Practice) advancing innovative learning modes that enhance the impact of management practice.

Professor Ioannis Ioannou

London Business School

Ioannis is a professor at the London Business School, and strategy scholar whose research focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility. He consults on and researches how environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) strategies are adopted, embedded and successfully implemented by organisations globally.

His work has been published in top academic journals, including the Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and the Journal of International Business Studies. He is the co-Chair of the Sustainability Advisory Panel of Merck KGaA and a member of the ESG Advisory Board of the DWS Group. Ioannis also recently served on the Stakeholder Working Group of the UK Treasury’s Asset Management Taskforce.

Ioannis Ioannou graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, majoring in Economics and Mathematics and holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and the Harvard Business School.

Professor Panikkos Poutziouris

Judge Business School Fellow

Dr Panikkos Poutziouris is Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at EIMF and a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, working with the Economics and Policy Group on Circular Economics and Entrepreneurial Development Models.

He leads the module – Enterprising Families & Family Offices, part of the Cambridge Executive MBA programme. Professor Poutziouris is Board member and Fellow of the Family Firm Institute and former President of IFERA- International Family Enterprise Research Academy. He has been leading / supporting initiatives in teaching, training, research, engagement and consulting across frontiers with a focus on entrepreneurial growth, innovation and entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and trans-generational family business continuity.

Professor Nicholas Ryder

University Of Cardiff

Dr. Nicholas Ryder is a Professor of Law at the University of Cardiff. Previously he was Professor of Financial Crime at the University of the West of England and also taught at the University of Glamorgan, where he was awarded a Ph. D. for research into credit unions’ role in the United Kingdom.

His main research interests are financial crime, money laundering, market manipulation, and terrorism financing. Dr. Ryder has provided counter-terrorism financing training for NATO, CEPOL, and numerous law enforcement agencies.

Dr. Ryder’s research has been commissioned by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Innovate UK, RUSI, LexisNexis Risk Solutions, the City of London Police Force, ICT Wilmington Risk & Compliance, Universities South West, the France Telecom Group, and the European Social Fund. He is also the series founder and editor for Routledge’s The Law Relating to Financial Crime and an invited contributor to symposia at the Law Commission, Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, PWC, UK Finance, and European Society of Criminology.

Associate Professor Stelios Tofaris

University Of Cambridge

Stelios Tofaris is a Fellow in Law at Girton College, Cambridge, and an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge. He read law (BA, PhD) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

In 2018, he was awarded a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for Excellence in University Teaching. Since 2019, he is the Book Review Editor of the Cambridge Law Journal.

Dr Tatiana Falcao

International Tax Expert

Tatiana Falcão is a senior tax lawyer with over 10 years of experience in international taxation and policy development, working with the academia, industry, not-for-profit institutions and intergovernmental organisations.

She is a consultant for the United Nations in tax issues, a member of the United Nations’ Subcommittee on environmental taxation, and is a recurrent contributor to the work of the United Nations, the OECD and the ILO. Tatiana was previously a European Institute Florence Fellow, a Schumann Fellow in Muenster University (Germany), and a visiting professor at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (Brazil). She integrated the secretariat of the United Nations twice, overseeing the work of the Tax Committee. Her research interests include international environmental taxation and the development of policies that aim to curb carbon emissions on a cross-border basis, international trade regulations associated to environmental tax reform, and the taxation of the digital economy. Her work has been published in academic journals and presented widely in conferences and workshops. Tatiana holds a Ph.D from Vienna University of Economics and Business, a LL.M from Cambridge University, and a LL.M from New York University.

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Advisory Council

Professor Kevin Featherstone​

Professor Helen Louri-Dendrinou

Professor Christos Hadjiemmanuil

Professor Elena Antonacopoulou​

Professor Ioannis Ioannou​

Professor Panikkos Poutziouris​

Professor Nicholas Ryder

Associate Professor Stelios Tofaris

Dr Tatiana Falcao

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