Professor Panikkos POUTZIOURIS

Rector of the University Of Central Lancashire Cyprus

Dr. Panikkos Poutziouris is the Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business and Rector at UCLan Cyprus, and Chair of CEDAR- Centre for Entrepreneurial Development Alliance and Research. He is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, working with the Economics and Policy Group on Circular Economics and Entrepreneurial Development Models. For two decades, he was a Senior Lecturer and later a visiting Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at the Alliance Manchester Business School-UK where his initiatives enjoyed support from NatWest Bank, Grant Thornton, BDO Stoy Hayward, KPMG, EY, PWC, Saggita Fund Management, Tilney Investment Management, SandAire Private Equity, UBS Wealth Management.

He  cooperated with FBN-International, FFI, IFB UK, Coutts, JP Morgan etc. Professor Poutziouris has been leading a number of teaching, training , research and consultancy initiatives  around the world with a focus on the entrepreneurial development of family business across generations. Show More

      He has served as an advisor–consultant for the Family Business Expert Group working for the European Commission, Directorate of Enterprise and Industry and for OECD on Entrepreneurship Policy. He is an active Fellow of the FFI-Family Firm Institute and former President of IFERA-International Family Enterprise Research Academy. He has been honoured by FFI–USA with the International Award for promoting family business entrepreneurship across frontiers.