Dr. Pavlos Gkasis

Biography:

Dr. Pavlos Gkasis is the Academic Director at International Business University(IBU), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has worked as a Professor and Economist with 20 years of combined academic and professional experience. As an academic leader and professor, he has achieved excellence in administration, research, scholarly activity, and research-led teaching. He has authored, co-authored, and led multiple funded research projects. He has cultivated partnerships with government agencies, funding bodies, and research institutions to advance institutional goals, while ensuring transparent, ethical, and impact-driven decision-making. He follows a consultative and collaborative leadership style in which he welcomes feedback from all stakeholders.

His goal is to help students become ethical and informed citizens and business leaders. More importantly, to help them become people who will have an impact not only in their field but in society. To achieve that, he promotes flexibility, and especially cultural agility, while at the same time creating an environment that nourishes student diversity. The main pillars of his academic philosophy are cooperation, synergies, and knowledge sharing.

Dr. Pavlos Gkasis’ research interests include International Business, Technological Diffusion, Knowledge Spillovers, Multinational Enterprises, Foreign Direct Investment, Project Management, Macroeconomic Analysis, Financial Economics, International Economics and Trade, Political Economy, Ethics, and Migration.