Dr Leonidas Efthymiou

Leonidas Efthymiou is Associate Professor in Management, with emphasis in Tourism and Hospitality at the University of Nicosia (UNIC), and adjunct faculty at Unicaf University. He is also the Head of the Department of Management (UNIC). He previously worked at Intercollege, Pearson Education and the University of Leicester. He has also taught online for Universities in Europe, Africa and the United States. He also travels frequently to Africa in his capacity as Instructional Designer. He has co-edited and published more than 30 books, 15 articles, and several media reports, policy papers and encyclopaedia articles. His research output lies at the intersection of employment, digitisation and education. Leonidas received a number of awards, including the best PhD Thesis Award, by the Academy of Management in 2011, Boston Massachusetts, and the Outstanding Literati Reviewer Award by Emerald Publishing (2025). He trained at the Universities of Leicester (PhD, MSc), Derby (BA) and the Higher Hotel Institute Cyprus (Dip. Hons).