Dr. Ifigenia Georgiou

Assistant Professor at the Department of Accounting at the Business School and a member of the Institute for the Future (IFF)

University of Nicosia

Dr. Ifigenia Georgiou is a faculty member at the Department of Accounting at the Business School and a member of the Institute for the Future (IFF) of the University of Nicosia. She holds a Ph.D. (2010) and an M.Sc. (2002) in Finance from the University of Cyprus, an M.Sc. in Information Management (1999) from Lancaster University in the UK, and a B.Sc. in Public and Business Administration with concentration in Management Science (1998) from the University of Cyprus. She also holds a teaching qualification, a PG Certificate in Professional Practice in Higher Education (2012) from Aston University in the UK, and she is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) of the UK. Dr. Georgiou has worked as a Lecturer at Aston University at the UK (2009-2014), and as an Assistant Professor at the Cyprus International Institute of Management (2014-2017) before joining the University of Nicosia. Dr. Georgiou’s research is interdisciplinary and her main academic interests include cryptocurrencies, blockchain DAOs and DAO governance, corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, socially responsible investing, behavioral finance, and information management. In addition, she is also interested in Ethics learning in Business Schools. Dr. Georgiou has presented her papers in many international refereed conferences, and she has published papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings in the fields of Finance and Accounting.