Mr. George M. Konstantinidis is Professor of Finance at the School of Business Administration at the University of Chicago. He was president of the American Finance Association, which is considered to be the leading scientific association of financial economists in the world. He is also a founding member and President of the Society for Financial Studies, the association of academic financiers published by the scientific journal Review of Financial Studies, which is ranked among the best scientific journals in the world. In addition, he has been a member of the Council of the University of Cyprus (1989 - 1995) and President of the Council of the University of Macedonia (2013 - 2016). Finally, he is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and a member of the Board of Directors of the Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA). Dr. Konstantinidis holds a bachelor's and master's degree in physics from the University of Oxford and a master's and doctoral degree in business administration from Indiana University in the USA. He was an Assistant and Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University and in 1979 became an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he became a Full Professor in 1983. As a Visiting Professor he has also worked at Harvard Business School (1985-1986) and the London School of Economics (2007).

Dr. Konstantinidis is a prolific writer with a significant contribution to economic and financial research. His research interests focus on valuing primary assets with an emphasis on imperfect markets, non-standard preferences, the role of transaction costs and capital market taxation. It has contributed significantly to the investigation to examine the causes of historical share price premium rates in relation to bond yields. He has also made significant research contributions to the theory of securities portfolio management, to the valuation of financial derivatives and to the management of financial risks. According to research by Research Papers in Economics, Dr. Konstantinidis is ranked among the 5% of the best economists on the planet. Some articles in which his important contribution is recognized are: "Mispricing of S&P 500 Index Options," with J. C. Jackwerth and S. Perrakis published in the Review of Financial Studies; "Rational Asset Prices," published in the Journal of Finance; and "Junior Can't Borrow: A New Perspective on the Equity Premium Puzzle," with J. B. Donaldson and R. Mehra published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Dr. Konstantinidis is the publisher and editor of many journals of financial science including: Critical Finance Review, Review of Development Finance, Ekonomia, European Finance Review, International Journal of Finance Education, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, International Review of Finance, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Mathematical Finance, Multinational Finance Journal, Quantitative Finance, Review of Derivatives Research, and Review of Financial Studies. Also from 2004 to 2015 he was the editor-in-chief of the series of scientific monographs Foundations and Trends in Finance. Dr. Konstantinidis has been awarded the title of Honorary Doctor by the University of Piraeus (1999), by the International University of Greece (2010) and by the University of Cyprus (2011).