With the help of the members of the Scientific Advisory Board, which is already in place, the School recruits faculty from top universities elsewhere in the region and around the world. Faculty members share the founders’ desire to build an institution, which will act as a catalyst for economic growth and development in the region. The faculty will be a mix of permanent and visiting staff, covering all of the core disciplines of business education – accounting, economics, finance, operations, marketing, organisational behaviour, strategy and entrepreneurship.
For the academic year 2016/2017, we will benefit from the expertise of prestigious professionals from the Top Business Schools teaching our courses as Guest Lecturers.
Lucrezia Reichlin is Professor of Economics at the London Business School, non-executive director of AGEAS Insurance Group and Eurobank Ergasias SA as well as Chairman & co-founder of Now-Casting Economics ltd and a Trustee of the International Financial Reporting Standards Foundation. She is a columnist for the Italian national daily Il Corriere della Sera and a regular contributor of Project Syndicate.
Reichlin received a Ph.D. in economics from New York University. She has held a number of different academic positions. From 2005 to 2008 she was the Director General of Research at the European Central Bank. From 2009 – April 2018 she was non-executive director of UniCredit Banking Group and from 2013-2016 she was Chair of the Scientific Council at the Brussels based think-tank Bruegel. Reichlin has been an active contributor to the life of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) over the years. She has been research director in 2011-2013, first Chairman of the CEPR Euro Area Business Cycle Dating Committee, co-founder and scientist in charge of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network and she is now a trustee.
Reichlin has published numerous papers on econometrics and macroeconomics. She is an expert on forecasting, business cycle analysis and monetary policy. She pioneered now-casting in economics by developing econometrics methods capable of reading the real time data flow through the lenses of a formal econometric model. These methods are now widely used by central banks and private investors around the world. Her papers have appeared in top scientific journals, including the American Economic Review, Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Monetary Economics and Journal of the American Statistical Association.
She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy, the European Economic Association, and Academia Europaea. She is on the advisory board of several research and policy institutions around the world. In 2016 she received the Birgit Grodal Award, European Economic Association, and the Isaac Kerstenetzky Scholarly Achievement Award.
Francesco Drago is Professor of Economics at the University of Messina where he teaches core courses in microeconomics and microeconometrics, and a research affilate to the Istitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn and the center for studies in economics and finance (CSEF).
Before joining University of Messina, he has held several academic positions, including visiting scholar at Harvard, Santa Fe Institute, Columbia University, University of Munich and University College London. He taught courses in behavioral economics and microeconometrics at Science Po in Paris, University of Nanterre and Univerisad del Rosario in Bogota.
His work on political economy and economics of crime has been published in top journals in economics. Drago received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Pisa and a PhD in Economics from the University of Siena.
Professor Persico teaches "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as visiting professor.
Nicola Persico is currently the John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. He taught at University of California Los Angeles, University of Pennysilvania and New York University.
He is the Director of the Center for Mathematical Studies in Economics & Management.Persico has received a number of honors and fellowships, including several National Science Foundation Grants, and he was an Alfred P. Sloan research fellow from 2002-2004. In 2007 he received the Carlo Alberto Medal, awarded to a young Italian economist (resident in Italy or abroad) under the age of 40 for his/her outstanding research contributions to the field of Economics. His work has been published in top journals in economics and law.
Nicola Persico received a bachelor's degree in economics from Bocconi University and a PhD in Economics from Northwestern University in 1996.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Persico's research focuses on contract theory, economics of organizations, political economy/design, labor economics, microeconomics and game theory.
Professor Papaionnou teaches the Economic Growth, Business and Institutions module of "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as Guest lecturer.
Professor of Economics at London Business School, he is also a research affiliate of the CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research), the leading research institutes in Europe and the United States, respectively. Professor Papaioannou consults regularly with international organisations, major investment banks, hedge funds, and institutional investors on macroeconomic developments in the EU and Greece.
He worked for two years at the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2007 to 2012, he served as Assistant Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College (NH, USA). Between 2010 and 2012 he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Economics Department of Harvard University (MA, USA).
Professor Papaionnou completed his PhD in Economics at the London Business School. Prior to his doctoral studies, Professor Papaionnau earned a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and an LLB Bachelor’s in Law.
He has published in many leading peer-refereed journals, such as theQuarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, Econometrica, The Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, The Journal of the European Economic Association and The Journal of International Economics, among others. His work has also appeared in numerous edited book volumes.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Elias Papaioannou’s focuses his research on international finance; political economy; applied econometrics; macro aspects of regulation; law and finance; and growth and development. His research has been recognised with the inaugural 2013 European Investment Bank Young Economist Award; the European Economic Association’s Young Economist Award, 2005; and the Royal Economic Association’s Austin Robinson Memorial Prize, 2008.
Professor Sadun teaches the Corporate Strategy module of "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as Guest Lecturer.
Raffaella Sadun is the Thomas S. Murphy Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. She is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Faculty Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, Research Affiliate at the Center for Economic Policy Research and Research Associate in the Ariadne Labs Program in the Department of Health Policy and Management at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is among the founders of the World Management Survey and the Executive Time Use Study.
Professor Sadun's work has appeared in leading peer reviewed journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Economic Journal, and has been featured in the business press, including The New York Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times. In 2012 Professor Sadun was nominated as a Junior Faculty Fellow at the Kauffman Foundation.
Professor Sadun completed her PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics. Prior to her doctoral studies, Professor Sadun earned a M.Sc. in Economics from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Sadun's research focuses on the economics of productivity, management and organizational change. Her research documents the economic and cultural determinants of managerial choices, as well as their implications for organizational performance in both the private and public sector (including healthcare and education).
Professor Gavetti teaches the Psychology of Strategic Leadership module of "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as Guest Lecturer.
Giovanni Gavetti is Associate Professor at Tuck School of Business. He has been Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, Instructor at Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Lecturer, Teaching Associate, and Research Fellow at Bocconi University.
He received the 2015 Dan and Mary Lou Schendel Best Paper Prize for the paper: “Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging.” and he won the 2014 Tuck Teaching Excellence Award.
Professor Gavetti is part of the editorial board of the European Management Review and the Industrial and Corporate Change, formerly of the Journal of Management and Governance, the Organization Science and the Strategic Management Journal. He is Senior Editor of the Strategy Science and the Organization Science and Ad Hoc reviewer of Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Economics and Management, Journal of Management and Governance Management Science, Organization Science.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Gavetti's research explores the cognitive foundations of strategy.
Michael Tsur is a lawyer and an expert in negotiation, conflict resolution, crisis management and mediation. He specializes in executive coaching of General Managers, Directors and Owners of companies in Israel and around the globe, working in particular on how to navigate complex negotiations and situations.
Founder in 1996 of the Mediation & Conflict Resolution Institute in Jerusalem, since 1999 Michael Tsur is a member of the Think-Tank for the IDF – Israel Defence Forces Hostage Negotiation Team.
Besides his many assignments in the international business arena, since 1996 Tsur is an Adjunct Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and has been collaborating with Harvard University (PON – Program on Negotiation), Hamline University (Minnesota), Cardozo School of Law (New York), Tbilisi University (Georgia) and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore – II level Master (Milan – Italy).
In 2011 Michael Tsur founded Shakla & Tariya, the first Institute for Negotiation Specialists - approaching negotiation as a stand-alone profession.
Professor Jacobides teaches "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as visiting professor.
Michael holds the Sir Donald Gordon Chair of Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the London Business School, where he is Associate Professor of Strategy. He has held visiting appointments at Wharton, Harvard Business School, NYU- Stern, has visited Bocconi, U. of Paris and Singapore Management University, and teaches in Columbia for the LBS/Columbia EMBA-Global. He has served on the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum on the Financial System and the Future of Investments, and is a Visiting Scholar with the New York Fed, focusing on changing business models in Financial Services. He studied in Athens, Cambridge, Stanford and Wharton, where he obtained his PhD.
His research has earned him the Sloan Foundation Award for the best Industry Study, and he has raised over £1M in research funds. A Ghoshal Fellow in the Advanced Institute of Management, his research has been sponsored by the Leverhulme Trust, NATO, MBAA, the WEF and other private and public bodies. He has worked with Santander, Credit Suisse, BBVA, Goldman Sachs, Lloyds, RBS, Zurich, if, Airbus, Finmeccanica, Pirelli, Lufthansa, Vodafone, Telenor, DT, Nokia, McKinsey, PwC, KPMG, MerckSerono, Chiesi Pharmaceutica, Roche and the NHS on executive development, thought leadership and strategy.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Professor Jacobides’s focus is change, design and strategy: he studies industry evolution, value migration, new business models, and structural change in firms and sectors. He is also interested in organizational design and how firms cope with organizational pathologies.
Professor Finkelstein teaches "Mediterranean Leadership Journey" workshop for Ortygia Business School as visiting professor.
Professor Finkelstein is Steven Roth Professor of Management; faculty director, Tuck Center for Leadership at Tuck School of Management.
Professor Finkelstein has published 20 books and 80 articles, with several bestsellers, including Why Smart Executives Fail. The Wall Street Journal called it “a marvel – a jargon-free business book based on serious research that offers genuine insights with clarity and sometimes even wit.” His latest book is SUPERBOSSES: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent. The result of a ten-year research project, Superbosses profiles leaders as diverse as Julian Robertson, Alice Waters, and Lorne Michaels who all have one thing in common – they helped spawn some of the best talent in their industries. The book describes what they did and how they did it, offering teachable lessons for leaders of any organization.
Professor Finkelstein is a consultant and speaker to senior executives around the globe, as well as an executive coach, focusing on leadership, talent development, corporate governance, learning from mistakes, and strategies for growth. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Management and listed on the “Thinkers 50”, the world's most prestigious ranking of leadership gurus. He has been featured in the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Harvard Business Review, Business Week, the London Times, Toronto Globe and Mail, Inc, Fast Company, and CNBC, and is a regular columnist for the BBC.
