Hellenic Open University

Faculty Member, School of Social Sciences

Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy

School of Social Sciences, Hellenic Open University

About

George Agiomirgianakis is Professor in the School of Social Sciences of the Hellenic Open University (HOU).
He is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Academic Director of the Business Administration Undergraduate Programme.  He has served as  the president of the European Economics and Finance Society (EEFS) (http://www.eefs.eu/ )  for the years 2004-2010.

He is editor of the International Journal of Tourism Policy (IJTP,  http://www.inderscience.com/ijtp  ).

He is member of the National Network of Environmental Education “Tourism and Environment” of the Ministry of Education.
He was, also, the coordinator of the Thematic Unit B-3 and G-3 of the Forum for Tourism Education and Training of the Ministry of Tourism Development.

He has more than 23 years of teaching experience in higher education, both in Greece and Britain. From 1997 to 2001 he taught at City University of London and from 2001 he is at the Hellenic Open Univerity.

His research interests lie in the areas of Economic Analysis and Policy, International Economics, Tourism Planning & Policy-Making, Tourism Education, Human Capital and the Role of Education, Labour Economics, Small Medium Enterprises, Macroeconomic Policy Games, Economic Growth and Foreign Direct Investment.  He has served as guest editor for the following journals: Policy Modelling, Applied Economics, Review of International Economics, Review of Development Economics,  Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, International Review of Economics and Finance, Ekonomia, International Journal of Finance and Economics, Journal of Economic Integration, International Journal of Economic Research, Journal of the Operational Research, International Trade Journal and the International Journal of Financial Management Services. He is also in the editorial board of the International Journal of Economic Research, International Journal of Financial Management Services, International Journal of Hospitality Knowledge Management και International Journal of Decision Sciences, Risk and Management. 

He has published four books:
a) The Macroeconomics of Open Economies Under Labour Mobility (1999), Ashgate Publishing UK;
b) Aspects of Globalisation: Macroeconomic and Capital Market Linkages in The Integrated World Economy, December 2003, with C. Tsoukis and T. Biswas, Kluwer, USA; 
c) European Integration, March 2006, with A. Zervoyianni and G. Argyros, Macmillan (Palgrave),UK;
d). International Economic Relations (in Greek) with Minas Vlassis and Henry Thompson, Rosili publishing, May 2006.
He has organised 15 International conferences in several European countries including Italy, Portugal, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Poland and Greece. He is project evaluator in several international institutions including European Science Foundation, CORDIS and the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus.

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