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Professor Andreas Papatheodorou was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. Today he is Professor in Industrial and Spatial Economics with Emphasis on Tourism at the University of the Aegean, Greece. Previously he was the Dean of the London College of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of West London. He was an Associate Professor at the University of the Aegean and the Director of the Laboratory for Tourism Research and Studies at the same university. He holds appointments as an Adjunct at the National School of Public Administration, Greece and the Hellenic Open University, Greece. He has also served as an External Examiner at Cranfield University (MSc Programme in Air Transport Management) and University of Hertfordshire (BA Programmes in Business Administration, Tourism Management, joint degrees). Dr Papatheodorou commenced his academic career as a Lecturer in Tourism (permanent position) at the School of Management, University of Surrey, UK in year 2000. He stayed there until 2005 and subsequently became a Visiting Senior Fellow until 2008. Between 2005 and 2010, Andreas also served as an Honorary Research Fellow of the Tourism and Travel Research Institute at the Nottingham Business School, UK. In the past, Dr Papatheodorou was an Assistant Professor at the University of the Aegean (2005-11) and also held adjunct appointments at the Athens University of Economics and Business and Harokopeion University in Greece.

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