Accreditations
Programme Director
Dr Andrey Afanasiev is the Programme Director of the MSc in Financial Services and Associate Professor of Finance and Risk Management at the CIIM. He also serves as the principal contact at the CIIM of the University Affiliation Program provided by the CFA Institute.
Dr Afanasiev received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Steklov Institute of Mathematics in 1993. The name of his thesis is “On asymptotic properties of binary statistical experiments”, advisor Prof. Albert Shiryaev. He continued his studies and received his Ph.D. in Finance from Institute of Economics RAS in 2003. The name of his thesis is “Methodological foundations and mechanisms of banks operations in derivatives markets”, advisors Prof. Vyacheslav Senchagov and Prof. Viktor Rudko-Silivanov. He has previous teaching experience at the Pacific State University of Economics, Russia.
Dr Andrey Afanasiev has more than 25 years of experience in international banking and risk management. For nearly 10 years Dr Afanasiev was the Head of Risk Management in RCB Bank Ltd., which is a European systemically important financial institution operating in Cyprus. His expertise in Financial Services is based on a unique combination of solid academic background and extensive international experience (Europe, Emerging Markets and Gulf countries). He is also FRM (Financial Risk Manager) certified from Global Association for Risk Professionals and PRM (Professional Risk Manager) certified from Professional Risk Managers’ International Association.
Dr Afanasiev research and teaching interests are in the field of investments, financial and derivatives markets, stochastic finance, risk modelling methods and, artificial intelligence and machine learning with applications in Financial Services. He has more than 20 scientific publications.
Resident Faculty
Professor
PhD Business Economics. Graduate School of Business. Stanford University (1995)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462246
Professor
PhD Statistics, Pennsylvania State University (2010)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462246
Associate Professor
PhD Finance, Institute of Economics RAS, PhD Mathematics Steklov Mathematical Institute (1993)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 3-5 Chaidariou Street, 3020 Limassol – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 25 878782
Associate Professor
PhD Economics, MGIMO Moscow University (1995)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462214
Associate Professor
PhD Information Security, UCL, University of London (2014)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 3-5 Chaidariou Street, 3020 Limassol – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 25 878782
Associate Professor
PhD Software Engineering, Leiden University (2008)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462246
Associate Professor
PhD Finance & Shipping Finance, Cass Business School, City University (1999)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462246
Assistant Professor
PhD in Computer Science, National Technical University of Athens (2016)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462246
Lecturer
PhD Economics, University of Cyprus (2022)
Address: Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM), 21 Glafkou Kleride Avenue, 2107 Aglandjia, Nicosia – Cyprus
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: +357 22 462217
Visiting Faculty
Dr. Maria Psillaki, Associate Professor, PhD Economics, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (1996)
Dr. Anastasia Dimiski, Lecturer, PhD in Econometrics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada (2022)
Dr Yulia Titova, Assistant Professor, PhD in Economics, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2013)
