Panagiotis Dontis Charitos (Takis) joined ESCP Business School in September 2015 and serves as Associate Professor of Finance. He is the Professor in Charge of the Investment Banking and the Banking & Finance Specialisations (Master in Management). He has also served as the London Academic Director of the Bachelor in Management between 2016 and 2019. Prior to joining ESCP, he was Senior Lecturer in Finance at the University of Westminster, London, where he served as the Director of the MSc Finance, Banking and Insurance. Takis has also served as Visiting Lecturer at a number of institutions, including Cass Business School, City University London.
He holds a PhD in Finance from Cass Business School, City University London. His research focuses on empirical banking, exploring the risk-return effects of bank M&A, common ownership, and the efficacy of bank regulations. He has published in high-quality US and European journals such as the Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Financial Stability, and the European Journal of Finance, among others, and has presented at various international conferences.
He is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Finance and Economics and has acted as ad-hoc referee for a number of scientific journals, such as Journal of Banking & Finance, European Journal of Finance, and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money. He was on the Advisory Board of the British Accounting and Finance Association Financial Markets and Institutions Special Interest Group and has worked as an analyst in the finance sector.
Takis is the module leader of M&A Valuation; Corporate Finance; Banking and Financial Conglomerates (Master in Management), and Finance (Executive MBA). He has taught a wide range of courses including, Mergers and Acquisitions (MBA), Financial Analysis and Strategy (Master in Management) and Financial Accounting (Bachelor in Management). Finally, he has supervised PhD students in the areas of Banking and Interest Rate Modelling.