George Panos

Georgios Panos (44 years old) is a Professor of Finance at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an Affiliate Professor of Finance at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, where he worked for the past 10 years. He has held previous positions at the Universities of Stirling and Essex. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Aberdeen (2010), a MSc Economics from the University of Warwick (2004), and a Bachelor's degree in Economics with honors from the University of Ioannina (2002). He worked as a consultant at the World Bank for a total of seven years, focusing on financial and private sector development, entrepreneurship, and poverty reduction. He has collaborated on financial literacy enhancement programs with the World Bank for developing countries. His research activities in financial management, financial education, and skills matching and development have led to the attainment of major research programs funded by the European Union, such as the PROFIT program (2016-2019: €1.6 million) and the TRAILS program (2024-2027: €3 million).

He is an Associate Editor of the European Journal of Finance, as well as a member of the editorial boards of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal and Journal of General Management. In April 2020, he was recognized as one of the best 40 MBA professors under the age of 40 globally by the American organization Poets&Quants, which ranks global postgraduate business administration programs. His published and ongoing unpublished studies on personal finance, financial management, financial technology, financial literacy, skills matching and development, as well as financial and social exclusion, are critically impacting these top-priority policy, education, and practice agendas.
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