Sotiris Staikouras

Sotiris K. Staikouras serves as Senior Lecturer in Finance at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. He holds a BSc degree in Business Administration, with major in Accounting and Finance, from the University of Piraeus in Greece, an an MSc degree in Business Finance from Brunel University in London, and a PhD degree in Finance from City University Business School (CUBS).

Dr. Staikouras has published numerous articles in the areas of banking, financial intermediation, asset pricing for banks and insurance, financial conglomerates, interest rate risk exposure of financial institutions, bank-insurance interface, stock market volatility and financial modelling. His research has been covered by the media and published in academic journals such as Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Risk & Insurance, Journal of Futures Markets, Financial Markets Institutions & Instruments, Journal of Financial Stability, Journal of Financial Services Research, European Financial Management, Journal of International Financial Markets Institutions & Money, Journal of Applied Finance and many others.

Dr. Staikouras has worked as a research advisor at London Clearing House and as financial analyst/consultant for other institutions. He was also a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII) Financial Services Accreditation Committee, and Academic Advisor of subject areas for the CII. As a freelance instructor, he delivers training courses for financial institutions and government organisations. He teaches courses in both undergraduate and postgraduate level in Bank Risk Management, Asset-Liability Management, Equity Investment Analysis, Company Valuation, Risk Management, Fixed Income Securities and Corporate Risk Management.

He was the Course Director of BSc IFRM, IAI and REFI (1998-2018), and he also served as Course Director of various masters' programmes. He was also one of the leading members for the restructuring of both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes during 1998-2002 at City University Business School. Dr. Staikouras had been a member of various Boards and Committees including the Senate at City University. He is a Visiting Scholar at ALBA Graduate Business School, Athens, Greece; Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, and at the Cyprus International Institute of Management, Nicosia, Cyprus.

Dr. Staikouras serves as Associate Editor of various academic journals in the are of banking and finance. He is also on the Advisory board of the Financial Markets & Institutions Special Interest Group within the British Accounting & Finance Association; and actively involved with the Financial Management Association in the USA. In 2021, he was the co-chair for the Financial Management Association Europe.

Research topics

• The banking & insurance equity pricing function
• Financial Conglomerates & Bank systemic risk
• The role of regulatory dialectic in a post crisis era
• Bank & insurer's equity performance and the term structure of interest rates
• Behavioural finance and financial crises

Qualifications

• BBA (Piraeus), MSc (Brunel) and PhD (CUBS).