Stavros Zenios#
| Membership Number: | 7053 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Affiliated section(s): | GOVERNANCE, INSTITUTIONS AND POLICIES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CYPRUS |
| Homepage(s): | https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=k4xbV8kAAAAJ&hl=en |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-7576-4898 |
| X: | @StavrosZenios |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2024 - present Professor of Operations Management and Finance, Durham University, UK
- 1991 - present Professor of Finance and Management Science, University of Cyprus, CY
- 2018 - present Non-Resident Fellow, Bruegel, Brussels, BE
- 2016 - 2018 Visiting Scholar on Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Public Policy Institute, PA
- 2007 - 2015 President, UNICA-Universities of the European Capitals, Brussels (not full-time job)
- 2002 - 2010 Rector, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
- 2000 - 2001 Visiting Scientist on Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship, Algorithmics Inc., London, Toronto, and Vienna,
- 1992 - 1995 First Dean, School of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus
- 1990 Visiting Scientist, Operations Research Center, MIT, and Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA
- 1986 - 1994 Assistant and Associate (tenured, 1991) professor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, PA. Operations and Information Management Department
Fields of Scholarship
- Robust optimization under ambiguity and stochastic programming under uncertainty
- Financial risk management
- Sovereign debt sustainability analysis using large-scale optimization
- Parallel computing for large-scale optimization
- Political risk pricing and hedging
- Climate risk management for sovereign debt
Honours and Awards
- 2021 Life-long Achievement Award, Financial Engineering and Banking Society
- 2019 Elected Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus
- 2019 Appointed as Guest Editor for a special issue of the Journal of Banking and Finance in honor of its founding editor Giorgio Szego (published 2022)
- 2016 Awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
- 2015 - 2017 Appointed Professor 25, Norwegian School of Economics
- 2013 Appointed Area Editor for financial engineering, Engineering and Optimization
- 2008 IFORS Distinguished Lecture, Cartagena de Indias, Columbia
- 2006 EURO Excellence in Practice Award, Association of European Operational Research Societies
- 2003 Appointed Guest Editor for the Series of Handbooks in Finance, Elsevier Science B.V., to edit the Handbook of Asset and Liability Management, Vol. 1 (2007) and Vol. 2 (2007)
- 2000 Awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship
- 2000 Best Teacher Award, Athens University of Economics and Business, MSc in Financial Engineering
- 1999 Awarded the INFORMS Computer Science Section prize for the book "Parallel Optimization: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" (with Yair Censor), INFORMS, USA
- 1996 Appointed Area Editor for Financial Services of Operations Research (served until 2000)
- 1993 - 1997 appointed Visiting Professor on CNR fellowships at the Universities of Bergamo (summers 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) and Urbino (1993)
- 1993 - 1994 Appointed Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- 1988 Special prize, Gordon Bell Competition of the IEEE Computer Society on parallel computing
- 1987 Honorable Mention, George E. Nicholson Competition, Operations Research Society of America
- Ongoing Appointed Associate Editor of Computational Optimization and Applications, International Transactions on Operational Research, Computational Economics; Invited Guest Editor of Annals of Operations Research
