Christos Pitelis

Christos Pitelis is a life fellow of Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, and a professor of strategy and international business at the University of Southampton Business School. He is also a fellow of the Academy of International Business.

His research spans political economy, strategy, international business, corporate governance, and industrial and innovation policy. His work has developed theories of the firm and multinational enterprise, value creation and capture, ecosystem orchestration, public entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.

Before joining Southampton, Pitelis was professor and head of international business at the University of Leeds Business School. He previously served as head of Brunel Business School, professor of sustainable global business at the University of Bath, and professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. At the University of Cambridge, he has held several teaching and leadership roles, including director of studies in economics and management at Queens’ College and head of the international-business subgroup at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Pitelis has also served as president of the Hellenic Organization of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and Handicraft and as chair of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. He directed the Centre for International Business and Management and has advised businesses, governments, international organizations, nonprofits, and accreditation bodies.

He is co-editor of the Cambridge Journal of Economics and literary executor of the works of economist Edith Penrose.

Pitelis earned a Ph.D. and a master’s in economics from the University of Warwick, a postgraduate diploma in public and industrial economics from Newcastle University, and a bachelor’s in public administration from Panteion University, where he graduated first in his class with first-class honors.