Dr. George Baourakis

Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (CIHEAM-MAICh)

Dr. George Baourakis is the Director of the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (CIHEAM-MAICh) since June 2012, and the Studies and Research Coordinator of the Business Economics and Management Department of MAICh since 1989. He has more than two decades’ experience in the management and coordination of educational and research activities, including coordination of the MSc Programme of MAICh-CIHEAM, organization of international seminars and training courses both at MAICh and in many other Mediterranean countries, and scientific, economic and administrative management of research projects. He has co-ordinated and participated in a large number of EU (FP 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th, INTERREG I, II and III-Archimed, MED, Tempus, Phare, Life, Lifelong Learning, Leonardo Da Vinci, European Social Fund/Operational Sectoral Programme), international and national – regional research projects (Ministry of Rural Development and Food, Ministry of Economy, etc).

Dr Baourakis is an Affiliate Professor in Marketing and Supply Chain Management, at the Centre of Entrepreneurship, Nyenrode University, The Netherlands Business School and at Maastricht University. He has been appointed as Distinguished Research Fellow in Food Marketing-Management at several universities. He has published numerous papers in internationally refereed scientific journals, presented extensively at international conferences, and authored/co-authored several scientific and academic books and special issues which have been distributed by renowned publishing houses. He is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Food and Beverage Manufacturing and Business Models. Moreover, he is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Food Products Marketing (Taylor & Francis), the Journal of Food Economics (Taylor & Francis), the International Journal of Corporate Finance and Accounting (IGI Global), the Journal of Computational Optimization in Economics and Finance (Nova Publishers), while he is Associate editor of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Economics (Springer) and co-editor of the Book Series Cooperative Management (Springer International Publishing AG). He is also acting as a Referee in various journals concerned with food marketing, management and finance.