Education
March 2020 – Present / PhD candidate, Financial Laboratory, TUC
o Ph.D. Thesis: “Development of a Multicriteria ESG Rating System and the Role of ESG Factors for the Financial Operation of Firms”
September 2018 – February 2020 / Master in Business Administration, TUC
o Master thesis: Corporate Failures for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Europe. September 2012 – November 2017 / Bachelor in Applied Mathematics, UOC
Work Experience
November 2023 – Present / Financial Services Risk Management Consultant at EY
o Sustainable Finance projects
February 2023 – June 2024 / Teaching assistant, in Financial Engineering Laboratory at TUC
o Undergraduate course: Sustainable finance
February 2022 – June 2024 / Teaching assistant, at the School of Administrative, Economics & Social Sciences, UNIWA
o Master’s course: Financial Operations Management
February 2020 – June 2024 / Teaching assistant, at the Financial Engineering Laboratory, TUC
o Undergraduate course: Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, and Innovation
October 2020 – January 2023 / Teaching assistant, at the Financial Engineering Laboratory, TUC
o Master’s course: Business Economics and Finance
October 2019 – January 2024 / Teaching assistant, at the Financial Engineering Laboratory, TUC
o Master’s course: Financial management
January 2018 – June 2018 / Math teacher
o I taught math to middle and high school students.
Academic achievements
Publications:
● Lemonakis, C., Kouskoukis, M. N., Garefalakis, A., Zopounidis, C., & Eskantar, M. (2020). A Bibliometric Analysis of Ethical Investments (EI) Research (pp. 286–305). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2436-7.ch012
● Alexopoulos, G., Apostolakis, A., Zopounidis, C., Garefalakis, A., & Eskantar, M. (2020). Fiscal Multipliers Under Extreme Uncertainty: Case of Greek Tourism Economy (pp. 83–105). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38766-2_5
● Eskantar, M., Doumpos, M., Grigoroudis, E., & Zopounidis, C. (2021). Prediction of Corporate Failures for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Europe (pp. 223–235). https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4805-9.ch015
● Eskantar, M., Doumpos, M., & Zopounidis, C. (2021). Multicriteria Methodology for Assessing the Financial Performance of Sustainable Companies: The Case of Greece (pp. 213–222). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89277-7_10
● Eskantar, M., Doumpos, M., Liadaki, A., & Zopounidis, C. (2022). A Multi-Criteria Comparison of Financial Performance between Sustainable and Non-Sustainable Companies. In Recent Trends in Financial Engineering (pp. 115–129). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811260483_0006
● Doumpos, M., Eskantar, M., & Zopounidis, C. (2023). Socially and Environmentally Responsible Investments and Mutual Funds (pp. 71–89). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24283-0_4
● Doumpos, M., Eskantar, M., & Zopounidis, C. (2023). Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainable Investments. In Encyclopedia of Optimization (pp. 1–5). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54621-2_795-1
● Eskantar, M., Aouadi, A., Bouaiss, K., Zopounidis, C., & Doumpos, M. (2023). Evaluating the Importance of ESG Criteria: A Multicriteria Approach (pp. 129–146). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31241-0_7
● Eskantar, M., Zopounidis, C., Doumpos, M., Galariotis, E., & Guesmi, K. (2024). Navigating ESG complexity: An in-depth analysis of sustainability criteria, frameworks, and impact assessment. International Review of Financial Analysis, 95, 103380. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2024.103380
Books:
● Ζοπουνίδης, Κ., & Εσκαντάρ, Μ. (2022). Κοινωνικά Υπεύθυνη Επένδυση. Κλειδάριθμος.
● Ζοπουνίδης, Κ., Δούμπος, Μ., Γαλαριώτης, Αι., & Εσκαντάρ, Μ. (2023). Βιώσιμη Χρηματοοικονομική: Κλιματική Αλλαγή και Κριτήρια ESG. Κλειδάριθμος.
● Zopounidis, C., Angeliki, L., & Marianna, E. (Eds.). (2023). Operational Research Methods in Business, Finance and Economics. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31241-0
Conferences:
10th FEBS National Conference, Athens 2019 (physical)
o Presentation topic: The prediction of the corporate failures for small and medium-sized enterprises in Europe
11th FEBS International Conference, France 2021 (virtual)
o Presentation topic: Investing in ESG: Overview of criteria evaluation.
The African Working Group: Multicriteria Decision Aid, 2022 (virtual)
o Presentation topic: Environmental Social Governance: A Multicriteria Analysis
Athens ESG Forum, 2022 (virtual)
o Presentation topic: ESG Index: A Multicriteria Analysis Model
