Professor Panos Piperopoulos (Ph.D. Kent Business School, UK) is the Dean International, Faculty of Business and Law, at Curtin University. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Small Business Management (JSBM) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AdvanceHE). Professor Piperopoulos has extensive industrial and academic experience in innovation, strategy and entrepreneurship and has held senior leadership roles in universities. Professor Piperopoulos is the former Deputy Chair of the Academic Board at La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia), where he also was the Associate Dean Academic Partnerships International and Discipline Lead, Management and Human Resources at the La Trobe Business School.

Professor Piperopoulos, was also the Director of the MBA and Executive MBA programs at the Graduate School of Business & Law, RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia), Director of Research for the Strategy, International Business & Entrepreneurship department at the University of Liverpool Management School (UK), Director of the MSc International Business (Leeds University Business School, UK) and Director of the BA Marketing & Management (Newcastle University Business School, UK). He has extensive experience in international and professional accreditations (EQUIS, AACSB, EFMD, Chartered Institute of Marketing, Institute of Export and International Trade, etc.) and ranking exercises (QS, Financial Times, CEO Magazine, etc.).

Over the past years Professor Piperopoulos has been the principal, co-principal and/or academic team member on competitive and industry grants worth approximately $2 million Australian dollars. His research focuses on global strategy, innovation and performance. He investigates the determinants of firms’ innovation and performance, the forces that drive EMNEs’ global strategies, FDI/OFDI, location, innovation and knowledge strategies and global competitiveness. As a 'sidekick' he also works on the determinants of entrepreneurial intentions, and firm/entrepreneurial resilience. His work has been published in leading journals such as, Research Policy, Global Strategy Journal, Journal of World Business, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, Journal of Business Research, Business Strategy & the Environment, Journal of Small Business Management, and Entrepreneurship & Regional Development.