Giorgos Doukidis

Independent non-executive member

Mr. Doukidis is Professor of eBusiness in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Business School of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

He was a member of the University Council, director of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Unit and co-founder of AUEB's ACEin (the start-up incubator). The e-Business Research Center (ELTRUN) at AUEB, which he founded and directed until 2021, with is 40 researcher and 50 internationally competitive research projects which it has successfully completed, is one of the largest in its specialty among European Business Schools. His research excellence has been recognized with various international awards such as the European Case Study Award 2009 in "Knowledge, Information and Communication Systems Management" category and the European ECR award in "Retail Innovation with Business Analytics" in 2015.

He holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Operational Research and PhD in Artificial Intelligence/Simulation from the London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught in from 1982 to 1990. He was visiting Professor at LSE and Brunel University, taught at leading European Business Schools, he has published more than 250 scientific papers and 20 books (10 with international publishers). Jas acted as guest editor seven times in international scientific journals, and has successfully supervised 20 doctoral candidates.

He was Chairman of TANEO (Greek New Economy Fund) and vice-President of GRECA (Greek eCommerce Association). During the last 30 years he has acted as consultant in tens of organizations/enterprises in areas such as business development, innovation and re-engineering, e-business and digital transformation, business analytics.