Dimitrios N. Koufopoulos is a Visiting Professor, School of Law, CCLS at Queen Mary University, Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London and the Director of the Global Online MBA Programmes in University of London. He has held numerous academic positions at Brunel University (2002-2018) and Cardiff University (1991-2002) in UK.
Dimitrios began his career very early, in construction industry –simply put, a builder-as well as a guitar player and singer where he quickly realised that was not good enough. Then, he turned his attention to accounting, where he saw opportunities and potential employment successes.
He gained his university bachelor’s degree in Management from the Athens School of Economics and Business Sciences in Greece, in 1988. Two years later has embarked on postgraduate studies in UK. He earned his MBA at Cardiff Business School, and straight after was employed as a research assistant at Cardiff University, Cardiff business School. He started working on his PhD on Strategic Planning Systems alongside his academic and consulting career.
He has been a Full-Time academic member of staff at Cardiff Business School from 1991 to 2002 and then joined Brunel Business School until April 2018. He publishes extensively in academic journals and every year papers that co-authors are presented in major conferences all over the world.
He has been teaching online and developing online material since 2006; in the early beginning at Universitas 21, then Laureate-Liverpool in 2009, Laureate- Roehampton in 2012 and University of London-Queen Mary in 2016. He has an extensive experience in developing and testing online material and modules; like Learning and Leading in a Dynamic Era, Strategy and Innovation and Strategic Management. He is currently working on the second edition of his textbook “Essentials of Strategic Management” published by Sage in 2012.
His supervisory capabilities have been developed since 1992 and up to now has successfully supervised well above 400 hundred students at UG and PG level as well as over 10 PhD students at Brunel University and currently 3 DBA Students at University of Liverpool.
Back in 1994, alongside his academic career, he set up a boutique consulting firm providing intelligent reports on several business and management issues. In 1998, he set up the Gnosis Management Consultants (www.gnosisconsultants.com), specializing in executive training and niched strategic research. In 2007, he set up the Hellenic Observatory of Corporate Governance (www.hocg.eu), where research on five distinct, important economic sectors for Greece are contacted. Since 2016 is a partner in www.proteas.io a business model innovation consulting firm.

 

George has joined ICAP CRIF in 2017 and appointed Group Data Protection Officer since then. He maintains under his role of Group DPO the supervision of privacy compliance of all ICAP CRIF legal entities in Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Cyprus. In 2018 he appointed General Manager of Comply.Data (ICAP CRIF Subsidiary) and one year later he joined his forces and became member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Association of Risk Managers (HA.RI.MA). Under his portfolio of roles, George provides taught courses at ICAP CRIF Risk Training Institute (RTI) accumulating more than 120 hours of lecturing in risk, privacy and compliance subjects Before joining ICAP, George was the first DPO appointed in Greece at AXA Insurance (2 years). He has also served for more than 15 years as Head of Privacy, Security and Compliance sectors in diverse industries (Head of Information Security in Marfin Bank, Director of IT Operations & Security in Panellinia Group of Cooperative Banks, Head of IT Security in Wind Hellas Telecommunications, IT/Security Audit Manager in PwC, and Compliance and IT Security Officer in Bank of Cyprus London-UK). He holds an MSc in Information Systems Management, Stirling University of Scotland and a BSc in Business Administration with concentrating at Computer Information Systems and Management Accounting, the American College of Greece (Deree College). He is certified by the Information Systems Audit & Control Association (ISACA) in Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT), Data Privacy Solutions Engineer (CDPSE) as well as, in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC).