Professor Georgios Doukidis

Department of Management

Professor Georgios Doukidis holds a BSc in mathematics from University of Thessaloniki, an MSc in Operational Research and PhD in Artificial Intelligence / Simulation from London School of Economics (LSE) where he taught for nine years as teaching assistant and lecturer. He was visiting Professor at INSEAD, Brunel University and LSE. At AUEB he taught for 36 years and was the co-founder of the Department of Management Sciences and Technology. He is the co-author of two INSEAD case studies on eBusiness transformation and innovation/entrepreneurship.

He is the vice-chairman of the National Council for Research, Technology and Innovation. He was the founder and director for 30 years of ELTRUN/AUEB -the largest eBusiness Research Center of all European Business Schools- where he managed more than 60 international and national R&D projects with more than 200 leading Universities and international companies. He also supervised successfully 21 PhD students in UK and Greece, where most of them follow successful academic career in UK, Canada, Denmark, Cyprus, Greece.

He has published 21 books (9 with international publishers) and more than 150 scientific papers (21 papers in leading 3* and 4* ABS list journals), acted as guest editor seven times in leading 3* & 4* ABS academic journals, and was chairman in 5 leading international conferences. He received in 2009 the European Case Study award in ‘Knowledge, Information and Communications Systems Management’ and in 2015 the European ECR Best Activation Award for “Data analytics in retail”.

He is one of the first Greek professors with PhD and research work in artificial intelligence in the early 1980s, with recognised contributions in the integration of these systems in the managerial environment. With Prof. Frank Land (LSE, LBS) they have introduced in the late ‘80s with their edited book, the notion of ‘Knowledge Management Support Systems’ as an extension of AI to support managerial processes. With Prof. Pattie Maes (MIT) and their research teams have introduced in the late ‘90s the notion of intelligent agents to re-engineer consumer-retail relationships in electronic commerce.

From the late 1980s he played a leading role in the establishment of the European scientific community of information systems by participating actively in the development of the European Journal of Information Systems and the European Conference of Information Systems.

Since the mid-1990s, he has been an international leader in the creation of the scientific specialization in e-Business and e-Commerce, as founder of the relevant research group at AUEB, founder of one of the largest relevant research laboratories internationally, organizer of the first international conference on Mobile Business (2002), and co-founder of the international master’s degree GEM (Global e-Management) in collaboration with leading universities such as Georgia State, Erasmus, Cologne, Denver, Copenhagen BS, ESADE.

In the early 2000s, he pioneered with researchers at ELTRUN in the creation of the scientific specialization of Digital Transformation through the co-editing of two related international books: “Social and Economic Transformation in the Digital Era” (IGI, 2003) and “Consumer Driven Electronic Transformation” (Springer, 2005).

He was the first chairman of TANEO (the Greek New Economy Fund), independent board member of the Hellenic Development Bank of Innovation and co-founder of the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center (ACEin) that is considered as a European best practice in promoting and assisting new entrepreneurship in Universities.

For over 30 years he has acted as advisor for innovation and entrepreneurship, digital transformation, e-business to the Greek Government, the European Commission and many companies and organizations in Greece and abroad. Currently he is independent board member of Euronext ATHEX Stock Exchange and Alumil and scientific advisor of IELKA (Research Institute of Grocery Retail Consumer Goods).