Professor Gelina Harlaftis, Professor and Director, Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH & University of Crete
Gelina Harlaftis, Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017, is Professor of Maritime History in the University of Crete. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008) In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and in 2008 International Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Her research interests are in maritime history, economic and social history, business history, global history and diaspora history. She has published 31 books in English, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and more than 70 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last books are titled Creating Global Shipping. Vagliano Brothers, Aristotle Onassis and the Evolution of Greek Shipping Business, 1820s-1970s, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019) and Onassis Business History (1924-1975), (Brill Publications, Leiden 2023).