Education

1965 – 1968 : Ph.D. in Economics, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
1963 – 1964 : Graduate Certificate in Advanced European Studies, College of Europe,
Bruges, Belgium
1959 – 1960 : M.B.A., Management, Atlanta University
1954 – 1958 : B.A., Economics, University of Athens, Greece

Work Experience (most recent)

1976 – (Present) : Florida International University, College of Business, Department of Finance Emeritus Professor of Finance, 2003-present
Program Director, DT MBA, DT Master of Science in Finance (MSF), 2006-2010
Department Chair, 2000-2003
Florida International Bankers Association (FIBA) Professor of Finance, 1999-2003
2003 – 2006 : University of Nicosia, School of Business Administration, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Position: Dean
1974 – 1976 : Atlanta University Center, Clark College, Department of Economics and Business, Atlanta, Georgia.
Position: Associate Professor

Professional Summary

His employment history includes work for American and European banks, advisory services to government agencies in the United States and Europe, and participation in the negotiations for Greece’s admission to the European Eco¬nomic Community in the area of commercial banks and banking policy.

Dr. Roussakis is recipient of several U.S. Department of State awards–Fulbright Specialist in Tunisia (2020), Kuwait (2017), Morocco (2014), Indonesia (2013) and Russia (2012), Lecturer at the Fulbright International Summer Institute in Bulgaria (2011), and Fulbright Scholar in Romania (2010).
His academic record also comprises visiting appointments to EMBA/MBA programs of universities in Egypt (2018-2020), Vietnam (2018 and 2019), Thailand (2013-2017) and Peru (1981-2014).

He was co-recipient of a Florida State Research (STAR) grant for the study of international banking legislation and taxation; study recommendations were the basis for legislative changes implemented in Florida (1979 and 1980). He was instrumental in establishing the department of Finance and developing its banking curriculum. He taught graduate and undergraduate courses in commercial and international banking and global financial strategy, and developed and directed certificate programs and courses/seminars for professionals in the financial industry. He has lectured bank managers and trainees in development programs in the United States and abroad (Brazil, Barbados, Curacao, Venezuela), and on several occasions he offered expert testimony in bank litigation. For his many and varied contributions to FIU and the community at large, he received 9 awards for exceptional performance in teaching, scholarship and service.

Publications

Dr. Roussakis has published widely on banking subjects, and his articles have appeared in academic and professional journals in the United States, Europe and Latin America. His publication record includes the following books :
-Friedrich List, the Zollverein and the Uniting of Europe (College of Europe Press, 1968) Managing Commercial Bank Funds (Praeger, 1977)
-Miami’s International Banking Community: Foreign Banks, Edge Act Corporations and Local Banks (Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., 1981)
-Commercial Banking in an Era of Deregulation, 3rd edition (Praeger, 1997), and
-Basics of International Banking (XanEdu, 2017).
[His book Commercial Banking in an Era of Deregulation, 2nd edition, was translated into Chinese and published by the China Price Publishing, Beijing, in 1992]
Dr. Roussakis is also the book editor of, and contributor to :
-International Lending by U.S. Commercial Banks: A Casebook (Praeger, 1981)
-International Banking: Principles and Practices (Praeger, 1983), and
-Cases in Commercial Bank Management (Kolb Publishing Co., 1994).
His publication record also includes several chapters in books.

Member of Board of Directors

2012 – Present Banco do Brasil Americas (BBA), Miami, Florida