Ekaterini Panopoulou is Professor of Finance at Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. She holds a PhD in Financial Econometrics from the Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, an MSc in Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus and a Diploma in Mathematical Sciences, University of Athens. She held previous positions at Kent Business School, University of Kent, Department of Statistics and Insurance Science, University of Piraeus and the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her career also includes working for the Strategy and Research department of National Bank of Greece.

Ekaterini’s current research interests spam the areas of financial econometrics, time series modelling and forecasting. She has published over 50 articles in books and peer-reviewed international journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the Econometrics Journal, International Journal of Forecasting, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Financial Markets, Financial Management, Journal of Empirical Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance. She serves as an associate editor on the board of the Empirical Economics Journal.