Nikolaos Veraros has over 20 years of experience in shipping finance. He is a Partner at Investments & Finance Ltd, a boutique house specialised in providing financial advice to shipping companies. He was also employed as a Senior Equity Analyst by National Bank of Greece.

Dr Veraros is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Certified Market Maker for Derivatives in the Athens Stock Exchange, and a Certified Analyst from the Hellenic Capital Market Commission.

He is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Shipping Finance & Economics at King’s Business School where he teaches Topics in Applied Finance for the Banking & Finance MSc.

He is also a Teaching Fellow at Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA) in Athens, Greece, teaching shipping economics. He serves as an independent member in the Board of Directors of OceanPal (OP-US). He also served as an independent member in the Board of Directors of Navios Maritime Acquisitions (NNA-US).

Dr Veraros received his Bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Athens University of Economics and Business, where he graduated as valedictorian, and his MBA degree from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester, USA. His research has been published by academic journals, including Applied Economics, Journal of Policy Modeling, Applied Economic Letters, Economic Bulletin of the Bank of Greece. 

Dr Veraros is currently not accepting PhD students.