PRESENT POSITIONS

Director and Senior Researcher, Agricultural Economics Research Institute (AGRERI), Hellenic Agriculture Organization-DEMETER, September 2013 to present.

Visiting Research Fellow, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale), Germany, July 2019-June 2026.

Co-Founder and Senior Partner, Co-opAbility Institute (www.coopability.org) 

 

SELECTED PAST POSITIONS

Visiting Professor, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany, Course: The Economics of Cooperatives, 2023.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 2008 to 2021.

FAO Expert in Agricultural Cooperatives: Mission to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, November 2016, Riyadh, KSA.

Senior Researcher, Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2007 to September 2013.

Researcher, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2001 to 2007.

Visiting Scholar, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe, Halle (Saale), Germany, March 2010; April 2014; April 2015; September 2015; January 2016; April 2016.

Director, Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology Research Institute, National Agricultural Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, 2004 to 2006.

CEO, Agrotourism, Inc., Athens, Greece, 2000 to 2001.

Senior Economic Advisor, Ministry of Agriculture, Greece, 1999 to 2001.

Post-doctoral Researcher, Agribusiness Research Institute, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1998 to 1999.

Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, 1995 to 1998.

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA. 1998. Major fields: agribusiness and cooperative economics and management, organizational economics, entrepreneurship, industrial organization. Dissertation title: “A Study of the Property Rights Constraints in US Agricultural Cooperatives: Theory and Evidence.” Dissertation Committee: Michael L. Cook (chair), B. Bjornson, N. Kalaitzandonakes, Hildegarde Heymann, X. H. Wang.

MS, Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 1992.

BS (Honors), Agricultural Economics, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 1991.

Systemic Epistemology Seminar (1 Year). Athenian Center for Anthropos (AKMA), 2015-2016.

Coaching for Organizational and Personal Development (1 Year). Athenian Center for Anthropos (AKMA), 2016-2017.

Systems Thinking and Practice Seminar (2 Years). Athenian Center for Anthropos (AKMA), 2017-2019.

Theory U (1 Semester). Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, MA, USA, Fall 2019.