Aristotle University of ThessalonikiGreece
Dr Kyriaki Kosmidou is a Professor in Banking Finance at the School of Economics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Head of the School of Economics and Director of the Postgraduate Studies in Master in Business Administration-MBA. Prof. Kosmidou holds a PhD in Banking Management from the Department of Production Engineering and Management from Technical University of Crete, Greece, MSc in Finance and Economics from the University of Montreal, Canada and BSc in Mathematics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is visiting professor in the postgraduate program MSc in Banking and Finance at International Hellenic University and she, also, teaches at the Joint Postgraduate Program “Banking, Accounting and Finance” of the Hellenic Open University and the University of Nicosia. She has been keynote speaker in many training seminars dealing with banking finance, risk management, energy economics. She has published more than seven books as well as many research papers in issues relevant to banking management, financial risk management, banking performance evaluation, investment evaluation, portfolio management and energy economics in well-known refereed academic journals such as Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Research in International Business and Finance International Review of Financial Analysis, European Journal of Operational Research, Οmega, Optimization Letters, Applied Financial Economics, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Managerial Finance, European Journal of Finance, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal and Energy Policy. She is the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Energy Economics and member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Finance and Accounting Association and the Financial Engineering and Banking Society. She is an active member of European Financial Management Association, Multinational Finance Association, Euro Working Group on Financial Modelling, Euro Working Group on Multicriteria Aid for Decisions, Hellenic Operational Research Society. Among others Prof. Kosmidou has organized national and international conferences and has participated in various scientific committees. She has presented various topics in banking finance, risk management and energy economics to more than 80 national and international conferences.