Dr Panikkos Poutziouris is Professor of Entrepreneurial Management at EIMF and Honorary Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School (CJBS), where he leads the Executive MBA module - Enterprising Families and Family Offices; he also supports the design and delivery of executive education and leadership programmes geared for private banks and their next generation owner-managed family business clients. For a decade he was the Professor of Entrepreneurship and Family Business at UCLan Cyprus - serving as Dean of the School of Business (2012-2017) and then as Rector (2017-2022), where he has launched the Centre for Entrepreneurial Development, Alliance & Research and has led a number of European Union funded projects with a focus on strategic growth and succession planning of family firms-. 

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, Sand-Aire Private Equity, UBS Wealth Management ; he  cooperated with FBN-International, FFI, IFB UK, Coutts, JP Morgan etc. Professor Poutziouris has been leading several teaching, training, research and consultancy initiatives around the world with a focus on the entrepreneurial development of family business across generations. 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 and board member 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.