Konstantinos (Kostas) E. Zachariadis is a Professor of Financial Economics in the School of Economics and Finance (SEF) at Queen Mary University of London. Previously, he held the position of Associate Professor (UK Reader) at SEF and served as an Assistant Professor (UK Lecturer) in the Department of Finance at London School of Economics (LSE), where he was affiliated with the Paul Woolley Centre. Additionally, he is a Research Associate at the Financial Markets Group and the Systemic Risk Centre, both at the LSE, and an Academic Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI). His research interests encompass Market Design, Corporate Governance, and Institutional Investors. His work has been published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He has extensive teaching experience in Investments, Corporate Finance and Strategy, and Hedge Funds at the undergraduate, postgraduate, professional, and executive levels, including bespoke programs for private organizations. Kostas earned his PhD in Managerial Economics and Strategy from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Furthermore, he holds an MSc from Northwestern University and a Diploma (5-year degree) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
In addition, he is a Fulbright Scholar, a recipient of an IEEE Life Members Graduate Study Fellowship, and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).

Konstantinos is interested in studying Corporate Governance of Greek listed firms. Particular topics of study can be:

• The quality of Corporate Governance using commonly used metrics, such as the G-index
• The constitution and voting of the shareholder base
• The governance practices of state pension funds as shareholders
• The landscape of shareholder activism in Greece
• Best practices as captured by ESG reporting using NPL models.