Professor Ilias Visvikis (BA,MSc,MSc, PhD) joined the AmericanUniversity ofSharjah(AUS)attheUnitedArabEmirates inSeptember2017asaProfessorofFinanceandDirectoroftheOfficeofExecutiveandProfessionalEducation.HeisVisiting Professor (since Jan 2016) and previously Senior Visiting Fellow (2012-2015)atICMACentre–HenleyBusinessSchooloftheUniversityofReading(UK).He is an Associate Editor (since Sept 2016) and previously member of theEditorial Advisory Board (2012-2016) of the leading journal TransportationResearchPartE:LogisticsandTransportationReview(ABDCRank:A*).HeisalsoelectedCouncilMemberoftheInternationalAssociationofMaritimeEconomists(IAME),whichismembersince2002,andChairmanof itsAnnualConferenceinAthens (Greece) in 2007. At the same time, he serves as Associate Editor of

Multinational Finance Journal and Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Shipping and TransportLogistics.Hehasbeenmemberof conference steering committees, university academichiring committees, andguesteditorofspecialissuesandreviewerforseveralmajorscientificjournals.PreviouslyheservedasaProfessor(2015-2017)andAssociateProfessor(2012-2015)ofShippingFinanceandRiskManagement, and the Director of Executive Education and Professional Development (2012-2017) at WorldMaritime University (WMU) inMalmö (Sweden), founded by the InternationalMaritime Organization (IMO), aspecialized agency of the United Nations. There he was responsible for a portfolio of distance-learningPostgraduate Diploma programmes and for the coordination of numerous Professional Development CoursesdeliveredinAsia,Europe,Africa,SouthAmericaandtheMiddleEast.HewasalsothefounderandCoordinatorofthePostgraduateDiplomainExecutiveMaritimeManagementprogramme(2014-2017)co-deliveredwithDNVGLMaritimeAcademy.BeforethatheservedasfacultymemberatALBAGraduateBusinessSchoolattheAmericanCollegeofGreece,havingthepositionsofAssociateProfessor(2011-2012)andAssistantProfessor(2005-2011)ofFinance,and theAcademicDirectorof its shippingprogrammes.There,hewas the founderandDirectorof theAMBA-accreditedMBAinShippingprogramme(2005-2012)andoftheMScinInternationalShippingandFinanceprogramme(2010-2012)co-deliveredwiththeUniversityofReading(UK).HealsopreviouslyhasheldpostsintheCentralSecuritiesDepositoryofGreeceandintheDerivativesMarketoftheAthensExchangeinGreece.He has teaching experience both at graduate (MSc and MBA) and undergraduate (BSc) levels, from severaluniversities around the world, including Belgium, China, Cyprus, Germany, Greece, Sweden, The Netherlands,United Arab Emirates, andUnited Kingdom, in subject areas such as: FinancialManagement, Investments, RiskManagement, Derivatives, Financial Econometrics and Forecasting, EconomicModelling, QuantitativeMethods,Shipping Finance, and Shipping Derivatives. He also serves as (internal or external) supervisor in PhD theses inseveralUniversities.Hehasanextensiveinternationalexperienceinconsultancyandexecutiveeducation.Hehastrained managerial-level professionals in the areas of finance and risk management (freight derivatives) fromnumerouspublicandprivatesectorcompaniesaroundtheworld.In2004,heco-developedapioneeringexecutiveseminarShippingDerivativesandRiskManagement,whichhas runmore than30 times in various formsand inseveralvenuesaroundtheworld(including,amongothers,Piraeus,Milan,Rotterdam,London,Hamburg,Istanbul,KualaLumpurandSingapore).Hehaswrittenextensivelyintheareasofshippingfinance,freightandfinancialderivatives,andriskmanagementand has been the author of numerous research works published in international refereed journals (appeared,among others, in the Journal of Banking and Finance, European Journal of Finance, European FinancialManagement,MultinationalFinanceJournal,InternationalJournalofForecasting,ReviewofDerivativesResearch,Derivatives Use Trading & Regulation, Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review,Maritime Policy and Management, Maritime Economics and Logistics, International Journal of TransportEconomics,andLloyd’sShippingEconomist),andinconferenceproceedings,books,journalguestvolumes,specialreportsandmagazines,whilehehasreceivednumerouscitationsfromresearchersinthearea.HehasextensivelypresentedhisresearchworkininternationalacademicconferencesandprofessionalmeetingsheldinUSA,EuropeandAsia.Heistheco-authoroftheDerivativesandRiskManagementinShipping(2006,WitherbyPublishingUK),the first comprehensive book published in the area, the editor of the Recent Trends in the Management ofShippingCompanies(2007,T&TPublicationsGreece),theco-editoroftheTheoryandPracticeofShippingFreightDerivatives (2011, Risk Books UK), the co-editor of the The International Handbook of Shipping Finance (2016,PalgraveMacmillan UK), and the co-editor of the ShippingOperationsManagement (2017, Springer Germany),receivingnumeroustestimonialsfrombothacademiaandthebusinessindustry.HeholdsaDegreeinBusinessAdministrationfromUniversityofAegean(Greece),aMScinInternationalFinancialMarketsfromUniversityofSouthampton,aMScinInternationalShippingfromUniversityofPlymouth,andaPh.D.inFinancefromCityUniversity,CassBusinessSchool inLondon.Hisdoctoral thesiswas financiallysupportedbytheNorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization(NATO)undertheEuro-AtlanticPartnershipCouncilResearchFellowship.