Georgia Makridou is an Assistant Professor at ESCP Business School where she also serves as the Academic Director of the MSc in Energy Management and the Director of the Energy Management Centre.
Georgia holds a PhD in Energy Economics (Technical University of Crete, Greece) and an MSc in Business Administration (2011) from the School of Production Engineering and Management. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering (2009) from the School of Electronic and Computer Engineering of the Technical University of Crete.
She teaches maths, computer skills, sustainability and energy policy on a range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Prior to joining ESCP Europe, she was a visiting lecturer at the Technical University of Crete in Greece.
Her principal research interests lie in the field of Energy Economics including issues related to sustainability, energy efficiency, energy derivatives, environmental and energy policy. Her work has been published in international commodity and energy-related Journals (Energy Journal, Energy Policy, European Journal of Operational Research, Journal of Cleaner Production), and has been presented in recognized conferences worldwide.
Georgia acts as a reviewer for a number of academic journals and has organised numerous international conferences. She is a member of various professional and academic associations such as the International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE) and Energy Institute. She is also the current treasurer of the Hellenic Association for Energy Economics (a think-tank focusing on issues related to energy, the environment and the economy).