National Agricultural Research Foundation

Faculty Member, Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute

About

Dr. Constantine Iliopoulos is an expert on the organization and economics of food and agribusiness supply chains and cooperatives.  Currently, he is a researcher with the Agricultural Economics and Policy Research Institute of the National Agricultural Research Foundation, and adjunct professor at the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. Dr Iliopoulos received his BA and MS in Agricultural Economics from the Agricultural University of Athens, Greece (1992), and his Ph.D. in Agribusiness Economics from the University of Missouri at Columbia, USA (1998).
His research program has focused on collective entrepreneurship—particularly the organizational and capital-acquisition aspects of innovative agribusiness firm, and contract agriculture—with attention to both theoretical and policy concerns. Dr. Iliopoulos has been the scientific coordinator of, or expert in, several international and national research projects. He is widely published, including articles in leading economic and management journals, collective volumes published by prestigious publishers, as well as numerous technical reports.  His work is regularly cited by economists around the world, while he is invited as author in high-esteemed publications. Dr Iliopoulos has held top managerial, research, consulting, and academic positions in Europe, and the U.S.  He is regularly invited as a speaker in conferences, seminars, and university courses at the graduate level around the globe.  He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Missouri and Rutgers University, USA, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Erasmus University, the Netherlands, and several universities in Greece. His honors include, among others, the Nourse Award for Best Doctoral Dissertation of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, USA (1999), Graduate Research Assistantship, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA (1995-1998), and Best Thesis Award, Friends of Cooperation Society, Athens, Greece (1992). Dr Iliopoulos is a member of the International Editorial and Advisory Board of the Journal on Chain and Network Science, and serves on the Scientific Board of the Research Network on Agricultural Cooperatives (e-RNAC). Furthermore, he has served as a reviewer for numerous journals, including the European Review of Agricultural Economics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Energy Policy, and Agribusiness: An International Journal.