Athanasios I. Douros was born in Athens in 1967.
He studied Business and Management at
London Metropolitan University and was awarded the
degree of Bachelor of Arts with with honours (First Class).
He pursued a programme of postgraduate studies
in the University of Kingston and he was awarded the
degree of Master of Business Administration
specialized in Banking and Finance.
He was also awarded the degree of IT Systems
Analyst and he has pursued a two years programme
of study in Marketing in the B.C.A. Business Studies.
His professional experience includes a thirty-year career in banking, and he has also served as the CEO and executive member of the BoD of Cooperative Banks.
As a CEO and Board advisor of Cooperative Banks, he has successfully managed a great number of reengineering projects, including operations, Governance and Audit systems, in addition to the establishment and implementation of NPE management systems and procedures.
He has attended many specialized professional seminars on loans and banking risks as well as on investments, administration and subordinate development.
He has also worked as a software developer and information systems analyst, founding a software house. He has released banking applications, trading and cost accounting applications and he has designed a technical analysis and data analysis program on stocks and many financial programs. He is an excellent user of programs of statistics and he has carried out a number of data analysis and multidimensional data analysis applications.
He is the author of the books Banking in action which was recently published and The encyclopedia of banking which has been sold out.
His articles have been published in various financial magazines.