Professor Aris Stouraitis is Professor of Finance in the Department of Accountancy, Economics & Finance, Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance & Financial Policy, and Director of the MSc in Finance (Fintech & Financial Analytics) at Hong Kong Baptist University. He holds Bachelor’s degrees in economics, accounting and finance from the American College of Greece, MSc in Management from INSEAD (France), and PhD in Finance from Imperial College London (United Kingdom). 

His academic research interests are in corporate finance, with emphasis on corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and corruption. His research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance and other international academic journals. He has made presentations at conferences organized by the U.S. National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), Harvard Business School, the European Finance Association, the Asian Finance Association, and in more than 30 other international academic conferences worldwide. His research or commentary has been quoted in media outlets in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and Hong Kong, including Bloomberg, The Economist magazine, The Straits Times and The Business Times (Singapore), the leading German financial daily newspaper Handelsblatt, and Superinteressante (Brazil). 

He is a member of the Governing Council of the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA).