Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis

Dr. Panagiotis Koutroumpis is an Assistant Professor in Finance at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading. He holds a Ph.D. in Financial Economics from Brunel University London and has taught extensively across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the UK and Europe, including at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Sussex and City University of London

His teaching portfolio spans Investments, Portfolio Management, Quantitative Methods in Finance, Financial Derivatives, Alternative Investments, and Data Analysis. He has supervised more than 2,500 MSc dissertations over the past eight years and has been recognised with a Postgraduate Teaching Award from Queen Mary University of London.

Dr. Koutroumpis’s research lies at the intersection of corporate finance, banking, and macro-financial linkages, with particular focus on shadow banking, geopolitical risk, and machine learning applications in finance. His recent work employs advanced textual analysis and AI-based language models (FinBERT, FinLLaMA) to study firm behaviour, financial distress, and communication dynamics in corporate leadership.

His publications appear in leading peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance and the International Journal of Finance and Economics, among others.

Bridging rigorous empirical research with real-world application, Dr. Koutroumpis brings a practice-oriented and data-driven approach to finance education, fostering analytical and decision-making skills relevant to modern global markets.