Panagiotis Zervopoulos is an Associate Professor in the College of Business Administration, University of Sharjah (UAE). His expertise lie in efficiency measurement, performance management, optimization, and statistics. Before joining the UoS, he held academic and research positions at Peking University (China), the London School of Economics (UK), Bursa Orhangazi University (Turkey), the Open University of Cyprus (Cyprus), the Academy of Athens (Greece), and the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE, Greece). Since 2016, he has been a member of the World Economic Survey Expert Group and the Economic Experts Survey Group of Ifo (Germany). Panagiotis has served as a Senior Consultant Modeling Statistician at IRi Worldwide, Analytics Center of Excellence, and as a Project Manager and Expert in Quantitative Analysis and Public Sector Reform at the European Public Law Organization. He has been a project manager, principal investigator, co-principal investigator, and consultant in research and technical assistance projects with a total budget exceeding EUR 15.5m. Those projects have been funded by the European Commission, the London School of Economics, the University of Sharjah, the Academy of Athens, and the General Secretarial for Research and Technology. Panagiotis has published papers in top-ranking journals such as the European Journal of Operational Research, the Journal of the Operational Research Society, the Journal of Financial Stability, and others.