Panos Markopoulos is an Associate Professor at the Business and Public Administration Department, University of Cyprus. Dr. Markopoulos completed his PhD in the University of Pennsylvania in 2004 studying the mechanism by which consumers receive information about products and services in electronic markets. His professional experience includes the Athens Stock Exchange, IBM Research, and the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, where he worked from 2005 until 2011, and where he consulted for the top management of Fortune-500 corporations in Europe, USA and Canada.

 

As an academic, he has taught undergraduate and MBA level courses in Cornell University and the Wharton Business School. His work on electronic markets has been published in top academic journals, including Management Science, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Harvard Business School Press.

 

He directed the University of Cyprus’ Centre for Entrepreneurship 2020-2024 and was a founding co-director of the MSc in Data Science graduate program.

 

Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Startup Accelerator IDEA (Bank of Cyprus) and the digital economy platform Jinius (Bank of Cyprus).