Professor Manolis Kavussanos, Director, MSc in International Shipping, Finance and Management, Athens University of Economics and Business
Manolis G. Kavussanos is Professor at Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. He is founder and Director of the MSc program in International Shipping, Finance and Management (ISFM) and the Laboratory for ISFM at AUEB. He has been for 5 years Director of the MSc and PhD programs in Accounting and Finance at AUEB. He co-launched and Directed the MSc in Trade, Logistics and Finance at Bayes Business School, London, until joining AUEB.
He has been: Member of the BoD of Aegean Baltic Bank, Head of REMCO and member of the audit committee οf the same Bank, elected Council member of IAME, member of the BoD of the Hellenic Institute of the History of Commercial Shipping, member of editorial boards of major international scientific journals, and of award committees for prestigious academic and professional prizes/scholarships.
He has been recipient of: teaching awards at Bayes and AUEB; best research-paper awards; post-doc academic scholarships. He has held posts as professor of finance and shipping in universities in several countries around the world, including the UK, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Greece and Cyprus.
He has provided consultancy services and executive education to private companies, national and international organizations, organized international scientific conferences, published extensively in international scientific journals, conference proceedings and books. His work gained awards for its quality, is financed by public and private sector organizations, companies and foundations and has received thousands of citations by fellow scientists.
Since 1992 he has worked in developing the area of risk analysis and management in shipping and is co-author of four books in this area and in shipping finance, including the leading reference books for academia and the industry, ‘Freight Derivatives and Risk Management in Shipping’ and the ‘International Handbook of Shipping Finance’. According to Stanford University publications, he has been classified in the top 2% of scientists internationally in his field of expertise.