Director & Dean
Dr. Theodore Panayotou
Dr. Theodore Panayotou, the Director and Dean of CIIM, is a 2007 NOBEL Peace Prize Contributor, and former a Harvard faculty member. He is Professor of Economics and Ethics at CIIM. Formerly a Visiting Professor at Tel Aviv University and former Member of the Cyprus President’s Council of the National Economy.
Programme Directors
MBA & MPSM Programme Director
Dr. Paris Cleanthous
Dr. Paris Cleanthous is the director of the MBA and MPSM programmes at the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) and professor of Strategy and Marketing. At the same time, he is a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Open University Cyprus.
Programme Director of MSc in Business Management
Dr. Olga Kandinskaia
Programme Director of MSc in Financial Services
Dr. Andrey Afanasiev
Programme Director of MSc in Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Dr. Theodosis Mourouzis
Dr. Theodosis Mourouzis has a BA/MA (Honors) in Mathematics: University of Cambridge, UK, a Master of Advanced Study in Mathematics (Number Theory Group): University of Cambridge, UK, a Master of Research (MRes) in Security Science from University College London (UCL) and a PhD in Information Security and Cryptography from University College London (UCL). His PhD was fully funded by the UCL SECReT program and EPSRC.
Programme Director of MSc in Applied Information Technologies
Dr. Stathis Hadjidemetriou
Dr. Stathis Hadjidemetriou received his Ph.D. in computer science also from Columbia University. His thesis was in the fields of image analysis and computer vision. He has also a B.Eng. (Honours) in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in Montreal and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University in the City of New York. As post-doctoral fellow at Yale University and as research scientist at University hospitals he specialized in bio-medical image analysis.
Programme Director of MSc in Human Resource Management & Organizational Behaviour
Dr. Vicky Katsioloudes
Dr. Vicky Katsioloudes received her Ph.D. in Human Resource Leadership Development from Louisiana State University and her M.Sc. in Social Organizational Psychology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has experience teaching courses in the areas of leadership, management, and human resources at the graduate, undergraduate, and executive education level.
Programme Director of MSc in Education, Leadership & Management
Dr. Ioannis Christodoulou
Dr. Ioannis S. Christodoulou studied Pedagogy, Psychology and Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1989 – 1993), in the Department of Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology. His doctoral dissertation (2002), in the Philosophy of Education, is entitled: “The issues of education and progress in the philosophy of Epictetus” (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
Programme Director of MSc in Shipping Operations & Management
Dr. Antonis Violaris
Dr. Antonis Violaris is the Programme Director, managing and coordinating the MSc in Shipping Operations & Management. He has extensive experience in shipping investments and analysis of the international markets – Shipping, Oil and Energy, Foreign Exchange and has been instrumental in setting up and successfully managing a number of investments in the shipping sector.
