Efthymios Roumpis is Assistant Professor of Maritime Economics, at the Department of Port Management & Shipping, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Efthymios holds a MSc in Shipping, Trade and Transport and a PhD in Shipping Finance from the Department of Shipping Trade and Transport, University of the Aegean, Greece.

Research fields of interest include shipping economics and finance, shipping risk management, commodities, pricing derivatives. Efthymios has published his research in international academic journals such as Maritime Policy & Management, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money και Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

Efthymios has an extensive professional experience in shipping economics and financial advisory services. He worked at Tufton Oceanic with his role focusing on developing quantitative models for shipping markets analysis and financial models for the shipping sector. Efthymios also worked at Deloitte providing consulting services for multiple organizations with specialist experience in market risk, credit risk and pricing derivatives.