Professor Andreas Papatheodorou is a prolific academic researcher, trainer, and advisor in air transport and tourism economics and management. An Oxford University graduate (with an MPhil in Economics and a DPhil in Geography), he is currently a Professor in Industrial and Spatial Economics with an Emphasis on Tourism at the University of the Aegean, Greece, where he also directs the Research Laboratory of Tourism Transport, Infrastructure and Destination Development. Professor Papatheodorou is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is currently the President of the Hellenic Aviation Society, serves as a Member of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority, and participates in the Panel of Experts of the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO). He has been a Fellow of the UK Tourism Society since 2006 and a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy since 2007. Professor Papatheodorou’s research has received wide recognition at an international level and he features in the Stanford University/Elsevier list of the top 2% of scientists worldwide. His research output includes conceptual papers on the air transport and tourism nexus; quantitative analysis, e.g. in the context of econometrics, structural equation modelling, fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis and the construction of composite indexes; and the use of qualitative tools to investigate stakeholder relationships from a socio-economic perspective.