George Christodoulakis

George Christodoulakis is an academic at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester and a practitioner in the markets and policy making. He has played leading roles in the Credit Rating Agency business, served as the State Secretary for Asset Privatizations of Greece, as Advisor to the Bank of Greece and as a member of the Hellenic Corporate Governance Council. He has also held academic positions at Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London and the University of Exeter, UK. A quant financial economist by training, with doctoral and grad studies in London and grad studies in Athens, his expertise concentrates on credit, market, strategic and sustainability risk, sustainable finance, structured finance, and risk management. His research appears in top research journals and books and has published the volumes Managing Risks in the European Periphery Debt Crisis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), The Analytics of Risk Model Validation (Elsevier, 2008), as well as the Journal of Risk Model Validation, Risk Journals since 2006.