Manolis Christofakis is a Professor of Regional Development and Policy at the Department of Business Administration of the University of the Aegean. From 2004 to 2015, he was a faculty member of the Department of Economic and Regional Development at Panteion University, Athens. He has been a member of the collaborating teaching staff at Hellenic Open University since 2017. He is the Dean of the Business School at the University of the Aegean (1/9/2024 to 31/8/2027). He served as the Head (1/9/2020–31/08/2022) and Vice Chairman (8/9/2017–30/11/2017 and 1/12/2017–31/08/2020) of the Department of Business Administration at the University of the Aegean and the Director (1/9/2022–31/8/2024) of the Postgraduate Program in Business Administration (MBA). He is the Director of the Laboratory of Development Studies and Research of the Department of Business Administration at the University of the Aegean. He has collaborated with the Economic and Social Cohesion Laboratory of the European Institute of the London School of Economics. He was a scientific collaborator with the Regional Development Institute of Panteion University. He has published books and scientific articles in refereed journals, collective volumes, and conference proceedings on regional and local economic development, regional policy and economic planning, transport policy, innovation strategy, tourism development, sustainable development, locations of entrepreneurial activities, entrepreneurial clusters, etc.