Background
Themistoclis Pantos was born on March 9, 1959 in Athens, Attica, Greece.
Themistoclis Pantos was born on March 9, 1959 in Athens, Attica, Greece.
Ph.D., in Finance, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2003.
Dr. Pantos is currently the Dean of Business Studies at Lincoln University in Oakland California, U.S.A. He joined Lincoln University in August 2019 and he served as an Assistant Provost for Doctoral Studies and Chairman of the Finance and Investments Department respectively. Prior to his appointment at Lincoln University he served at the Faculty of Zayed University in UAE as the "Ahmad Khalaf Al Habtoor" Chair Professor in Management and as the Graduate Director of the MFIN Program for the 2016-2018 time period. Dr. Pantos joined the College of Business at Zayed University in August of 2012 as a Professor of Finance. Prior to his appointment at Zayed University, College of Business in UAE Dr. Pantos was the holder of the Bridge Bank Chair for Banking and Financial Services at the College of Business at San Jose State University in California, where he was on the faculty since 2000. Themis was the holder of the Provost Research Fellowship Award for the College of Business, at Zayed University for the academic year 2015-2016. Dr. Pantos was the recipient of the “Teacher Master Award”, at the College of Business, San Jose State University, California, for two consecutive years (2012,2011), the winner of the “CSU Faculty Excellence in Advising Award”, California State Student Association, Long Beach, California, (2011), the holder of the “Outstanding Faculty Award” from the Disability Resource Center (2007) at San Jose State University and the winner of the prestigious “Outstanding Undergraduate Professor Teaching Award” (2004), at the College of Business, San Jose State University. Themis has also won “The MBA Faculty Choice Award” in 2000, at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Pantos has a long list of peer review academic publications and was a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Accounting and Finance Journal from 2007-2014. Themis has published extensively in various peer-reviewed, Finance, Economics and Accounting journals and his current research interests are in the areas of Risk of Financial Institutions in Emerging and Developed Markets, Capital Markets within the European Union, GCC and NAFTA Trading Blocs, Banking Regulation, Hedge Funds, Emerging Markets and Derivative Securities. Themis was the keynote speaker on the 11th Academy of Business Management Meeting, entitled the “Global Conference on Business Management and Social Sciences”, on April 24, 2015 in Dubai, UAE, and the 4th and 3rd International Accounting and Finance Conferences, organized by the University of Macedonia, in Corfu and Skiathos islands, Greece, in August 2012 and 2010 respectively. Themis was the winner of the “Lucas Research Fellowship Award” in 2012 and 2011 respectively, and the holder of the College of Business “Applied Research Award” in 2007 at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. Themis has been appointed, by the Hellenic Quality Assurance Standards Organization in University Education, as an external evaluator for the Accounting and Finance departmental units within the various Greek Universities and the promotion and tenure policy procedures associated with the retention of Greek professors and research colleagues within the European Union Universities and Technological Institutes. Prior to his academic career, Themis worked in Banking in the areas of risk management, derivative securities and mortgage securitization. Themis has served on various University, College and Departmental Committees at Zayed University, San Jose State University, Rutgers University and the Catholic University of America respectively and has been a frequent media commentator.
Member of the American Finance Society, FMA, Multinational Finance Society, Eastern Finance Association.
Married to Elena Pantos.
