Andreas Papatheodorou

Professor Dr Andreas Papatheodorou is a prolific academic researcher, trainer and advisor in areas related to air transport and tourism economics and management. He is currently a Professor in Industrial and Spatial Economics with Emphasis on Tourism at the University of the Aegean, Greece, where he also directs the MSc Programme in Strategic Management of Tourism Destinations and Hospitality Enterprises. Professor Papatheodorou also holds appointments as Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia and Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. He also collaborates with Ecole Nationale de l’ Aviation Civile, France and its campuses in Hong Kong, Ivory Coast and India. He has acted as an instructor for the Arab Air Carriers Organization (AACO) since 2004 having delivered over thirty (30) seminars in air transport economics, strategic management and marketing across the Middle East and North Africa. He has also collaborated with the IATA Training Fund for a course to Sudan Airways. Andreas is also the President of the Hellenic Aviation Society, the most important scientific society for aviation in Greece. Moreover, he serves as a Member of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority and participates in the Panel of Experts of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). He has been a Fellow of the UK Tourism Society since 2006.

Professor Papatheodorou’s work has received wide recognition at an international level with over 5,000 citations of his work in English (based on Google Scholar). He has been extensively interviewed by news media including Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, USA; The Telegraph; United Kingdom; The Straits Times; Singapore; Greek and Canadian television and Greek radio. He has worked on about 30 research/consulting projects and has produced over 150 papers/reports/books. Moreover, two of his papers were declared as the most downloaded in their year of publication by the respective journals (Annals of Tourism Research, 2001; Journal of Travel Research, 2010). His co-authored book Economics of Tourism (Routledge, 2010) has been translated from English to Mandarin. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Air Transport Studies and an Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research in charge of aviation and tourism submissions. He has been recognised as Emerging Scholar of Distinction (2009) and Invited Scholar (2017) by the International Academy for the Study of Tourism, while in 2021 he was awarded the Air Transport News Individual Award for his services to the aviation sector.

Professor Papatheodorou holds a four-year BSc degree in International and European Economic Studies from the Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece (1995); a two-year Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree in Economics from the University of Oxford, UK (1997); and a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in Geography again from the University of Oxford (2001). Further to a three-year training programme he was granted Fellow Status of the UK Higher Education Academy (2007). Andreas speaks four languages (Greek, English, French and German) and has graduated with excellence in classical guitar from the Greek National Conservatory (1994).