Argyro Avgoustaki is a Full Professor of Human Resource Management and Industrial Relations at ESCP Business School, where she teaches graduate courses in Human Resource Management, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods. She has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Management Science at Lancaster University Management School, the Department of Management at Bayes Business School, and the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at Imperial Business School.

Her research interests lie at the intersection of human resource management and industrial relations. Her work examines topics such as high-performance work practices, including incentive pay and flexible working arrangements, as well as the antecedents and outcomes of employee work effort. She has published in leading journals including the Journal of Management, ILR Review, Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management Journal, International Journal of Human Resource Management, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Economic and Industrial Democracy. Her research has also been featured in international media outlets such as the Financial Times, FT China, Business Insider UK, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Daily Mail, Insider, CNBC, Le Soir, The Guardian, Women’s Health, New Scientist, Entrepreneur, MDR Radio, and the World Economic Forum.

She is one of the founders of CYGNA, a network of female scholars, and is a member of the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, and the European Association of Labour Economists (EALE). She also serves on the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS) committee, which brings together directors of research from member business schools to help shape research policy.

She holds a PhD in Business Administration and Quantitative Methods from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Master’s degree in Business Economics and Management from M.A.I.Ch., both awarded with distinction. In 2014–2015, she completed the Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, HBS Executive Education at Harvard Business School. She started consultancy work on human resource management issues within the Greek public administration in 2011 and since 2015 has also been consulting in the private sector, particularly in the retail trade and professional financial services sectors across Greece, Spain, and France, drawing on insights from her research on human resource management and organizational data to support evidence-based decision-making.