The second episode in our series talking to the School of Economics and Finance academic community welcomes Professor George Skiadopoulos. In this podcast he discusses his journey into academia but also his current research and working with industry.

George is currently part-time at Queen Mary and he is also a Professor  at the University of Piraeus in the Department of Banking and Financial  Management. He is the Director and co-Founder of the Institute of  Finance and Financial Regulation, and an Associate Research Fellow at  Cass Business School, City University, and at Warwick Business School,  University of Warwick. George holds a BSc. from the Department of  Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business, an MSc. in  Mathematical Economics and Econometrics from the London School of  Economics, and a PhD. from the University of Warwick.

George's research interests lie in the areas of commodities,  empirical asset pricing, financial derivatives and portfolio management.  He has published in academic journals such as the Management  Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of  Business and Economic Statistics, Journal of Banking and Finance,  Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Empirical Finance,  International Journal of Forecasting, and others. He serves in the  editorial boards of the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of  Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Commodity Markets, Journal  of Derivatives and Multinational Finance Journal.