Helen A. Thanopoulou

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ABOUT HELEN A. THANOPOULOU

Dr. Helen (Eleni) A. Thanopoulou is Professor in Operations Management of Shipping Companies at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean. She has served as Head of the Department (20••••16) and from August 2017 to August 2018 as Vice-Rector of Academic Affairs and Quality Assurance of the University. Having studied Economics at the University of Athens, she holds a D.E.A. in Development Economics (University of Paris I, Panthéon- Sorbonne) and a Doctorate in Maritime Studies from the University of Piraeus where she taught briefly. She spent 8 years in Wales, as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University serving as Director of shipping related Postgraduate courses also. She returned to Greece to assume in 2004 a new post at the University of the Aegean. She has published extensively on maritime crises, shipping competitiveness and investment patterns, UK shipping policy, Greek shipping, quality shipping, maritime innovation, uncertainty and resilience etc. Professor Thanopoulou has served as elected Council member of the International Association of Maritime Economists (IAME), as Chair of the Academic Assembly of Cardiff University, as Guest Editor and member of Editorial Boards and is a reviewer for a substantial number of international journals. She has been teaching various undergraduate and post-graduate courses at universities in Europe and Asia for many years and has acted as evaluator of postgraduate courses and research projects of European countries. In June 2018 she was made Honorary Visiting Professor at Bayes Business School, City, University of London for 3 years renewed to 2027.