Professor Helen Thanopoulou, Professor, University of the Aegean; Honorary Visiting Professor, Bayes Business School
Helen A. Thanopoulou is Professor in Operations Management of Shipping Companies at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean where she has served (2014-2016) as Head of the Department and later (2017-2018) as Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs and Quality Assurance.
Having studied Economics (University of Athens) and with a postgraduate degree in Development Economics (University of Paris I, Panthéon- Sorbonne) she holds a Doctorate in Maritime Studies from the University of Piraeus where she taught briefly spending, next, 8 years as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University where she served also as Director of shipping related postgraduate courses and as Chair of the Academic Assembly of the University returning to Greece to assume, in 2004, her new post on Chios island.
She has published on maritime crises, shipping competitiveness and investment strategies, shipping policy, liner alliances, ports, uncertainty and resilience, quality shipping, maritime innovation etc. She has served as Council member of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), as Guest Editor, Editorial Board member and reviewer for international academic journals, as evaluator of research proposals and postgraduate programmes and has taught undergraduate and post-graduate courses in Europe and Asia while active in research projects and consulting. She has been a Bayes Business School Honorary Visiting Professor since 2018.