Since 1992, Ioannis Demetriou works very actively for further improving the Department of Economics. He contributes as follows:

 

(1) Managerial / Technical work (1995-2009): development and strengthening of the infrastructure of computer laboratories; and, organization of the MSc course in applied economics and finance. He reorganized the Informatics Lab so as to be able to accommodate the heavy demand for computer training from the students of School of Law, Economics and Political Sciences (about 15000 students attended training courses in 10 years on about 50 pc’s). Since 2000, when lab personnel were almost annihilated, he restructured the computer training system by attaching it to the main programme of the department.

 

(2) As a Chairman of the department, since 2009 up today, he has actively supported the development of teaching and research staff, increased library holdings, assumed the responsibility and proceeded successfully to the internal assessment of the department covering the periods 2003-9 and (annually) 2009-10-11-12-13, computerized the student administration system, developed new web sites (www.econ.uoa.gr and www.en.econ.uoa.gr); increased orientations in the MSc course; set up a new computing lab in brand new infrastructure and premises (57 Solonos Street, Athens); developed (since 2011) a departmental supporting research system; and, digitized the minutes of the department general assemblies of the period 1982-2013. Recently, new department premises have been prepared (1 Aristidou Street, Athens), satisfying a long standing need of the faculty.

 

(3) Educational work: due to heavy demands for education on informatics, he usually teaches 9 hours per week and in certain semesters (1997-2001) used to teach 12 hpw. He introduced new courses on informatics and computer science (cf. [69], [72] and [78]), as well as three courses in postgraduate and doctorate levels (cf. [70], [73] and [79]), while he wrote textbooks that amount to 2000 pages (see Table 2). He has guided a number (>50) of postgraduate students for their MSc theses (see Table 5) that require 4-6 month work; few of them having done remarkably well and continued their studies to competent UK universities.

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(4) Director of MSc Business Administration, Analytics and Information Systems: Instrumental in building this MSC programme at NKUA. 

 

[*] Numbers in brackets refer to I. C. Demetriou’s publications