Refenes Apostolos

Professor

arefenes@aueb.gr

+30 2108203660

Apostolos Refenes is Professor of Finance at Athens University of Economics & Bussiness and, until recently, Chairman of the Hellenic Accounting & Auditing Standards Oversight Board. He has held previous academic positions at London Business School (Associate Professor), University College London (Senior Research Fellow) and the University of Athens (Visiting Professor). Previous government appointments include the UK Cabinet Office (Financial Services Panel), the UK Department of Trade & Industry (Science Advisor), the European Commission (IST Advisory Board) and the Hellenic Competition Commission (Commissioner). Previous executive positions include OPAP international (CEO), OPAP S.A. (Board Member), Department of Management Science AUEB (Deputy Chairman) and Hughes Financial Analytics (CEO).

Professor Refenes has over 20 years of professional experience in Investments, Banking and Finance. He has advised clients on transactions (structuring, arranging and placing major issues) in excess of $5billion. He has consulted for many financial institutions including Morgan-Stanley, CitiBank, Salomon Brothers, Barclays Capital, Dresdner, BNP, Societe General, Bank of Greece, OTEestate, Hellenic Republic Treasury, the Athens Derivatives Exchange and other organisations including the European Commission. Independent valuator for many debt issues and the securitisation of complex receivables, Professor Refenes is a respected figure in corporate and subsovereign finance.

As an executive, during his term a head of the Audit Regulator, Professor Refenes is credited with putting the International Standards on Auditing on the Greek statute book and negotiating and completing the deregulation of the auditing profession in Greece with exemplary efficiency. He set up the orgasisation from scratch and was amongst the first five EU states to carry out audit inspections for the first time. He introduced significant reforms in public sector accounting and set the stage for the adoption of International Public Sector Accounting Standards. Professor Refenes took a leading role in the Tax Reform effort and is credited with carrying through the modernization of the Greek Income Tax Code.

Kranias Athanasios

PhD student

akranias@aueb.gr

Athanasios Kranias, is a PhD Candidate and Researcher in Financial Engineering at the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB).

He studied Mathematics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and majored in Applied Mathematics. He holds 3 Master’s degrees, an MSc in Business Mathematics from the Informatics Department (AUEB), an MPhil in Economics from the Department of Economics (NKUA) and an MSc in Data Science and Business Analytics from the University of Macedonia.

He has experience working as financial and business data analyst at consultant firms. He has also worked as a journalist and radio producer for Greek media.