Dr Alexia Ventouri is an Associate Professor (Reader) in Banking & Finance, Director of the Banking & Finance M.Sc., a member of The Data Analytics for Finance and Macro (DAFM) and the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance research centres at King’s Business School. She joined King’s in October 2015. She obtained her MSc and PhD degrees in Finance from the University of Essex, and holds a BSc in Economic Science from the University of Piraeus.
Alexia’s research areas are on banks' financial and social performance, banks' corporate governance and stability, the industrial structure of banking and access to finance. Her publications appear in internationally recognised journals such as the Review of Finance, British Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Economic Letters, Journal of Business, Finance & Accounting, and Journal of Financial Stability.