Loucia D. Constantinou

Loucia D. Constantinou, PhD is a public-school teacher, a School Administrator, and a teacher educator by training. She has been appointed at the Cyprus Quality and Accreditation Agency (CYQAA) as an Education Officer since September of 2021. In the past, she has been involved in internal evaluation at several institutions of higher learning (University at Albany-SUNY, Michigan State University, Hellenic College).

Dr. Constantinou was trained as an elementary classroom teacher in Cyprus (Diploma-Pedagogical Academy of Cyprus). She also holds degrees in Psychology (B.A., University at Albany-SUNY), Learning and Teaching (Ed.M, Harvard University), and Curriculum and Instruction (M.Sc. & C.A.S., University at Albany-SUNY). Dr. Constantinou earned her PhD in Teacher Education from Michigan State University (Ph.D, Curriculum, Instruction and Teacher Education). Her area of expertise is teacher learning and development, as well as teacher induction and mentoring.

Loucia D. Constantinou has an extensive record of professional experience, teaching and researching in a variety of settings (Cyprus Pedagogical Institute, Cyprus Educational Mission to the UK, Cyprus Council of Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications, Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth, Michigan State University, University at Albany-SUNY, Hellenic College). She has attended professional seminars in her field and presented her research work in conferences in various countries in Europe and in the USA. Dr. Loucia D. Constantinou is the recipient of numerous honors, awards, and fellowships, including a Fulbright Visiting Research Scholar Grant.

Irene Christina Anthi Christofide

Irene-Christina Anthi-Christofide Advocate-Associate at the Law Firm L. PAPAPHILIPPOU & CO LCC, Head of the Department of Privacy and Data Protection Law.

Focus in providing legal services on privacy and personal data protection matters. Moreover, she has experience in and provides legal services in various legal sectors, indicatively, in the regulatory sector, banking and finance sector (including provision of legal consulting services in various financial areas), as well as in matters of public and private international law, constitutional law, human rights law, administrative law, labour law, matters of local governance and, in general, legal matters related to the sector of commercial enterprises.

She is a registered member of the Cyprus Bar Association and the Nicosia Bar Association.

In the past, she has served, in the Republic of Cyprus, as a member of the Special Teaching Staff of the Law Departments of the Nicosia University (academic years 2013-2015) and the Neapolis University Pafos (academic year 2012-2013).

She is a holder of the title of Bachelor Of Laws (Qualifying Degree) (With Honours) in Law (LLB) from the University of Warwick, Master of Laws (LLM) in International Law from the University of Bristol and Master of Philosophy (MPhil) - Public International Law, from the University of Bristol. Further, she is Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Andreas Charalambous

Andreas CharalambousDr Andreas Charalambous is Professor and Executive Vice President for Health, of the University of Nicosia ( UNIC Health). He served as  Foundation Executive Dean of the  Medical School from 2011 until July of 2022.  He is a US-trained anatomist and medical educator with a strong record in higher education development and internationalization.

He holds an undergraduate and master’s degree from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and a PhD in Anatomy / Neuroscience from The Ohio State University.

He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Pathology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and during his career, has served in various academic and administrative capacities such as Department Chair, Dean and Vice President.

His research covers the areas of medical education and environmental / public health. He also served/serves as Board Member and Advisor to medical schools and medical education projects in Europe and in North America.

Christos A. Ioannou

Christos IoannouChristos A. Ioannou is a Full Professor in Economics at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a research fellow at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne. He graduated in 2009 with a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

Christos A. Ioannou is an applied game theorist interested in modelling economic behavior. His research interests span from an analysis and modelling of behavior in repeated games to that in prediction markets.



His research program includes, amongst others, publications in leading scientific journals. Some indicative publications follow:
  1. Ioannou, Christos A., and Miltiadis Makris. “An Experimental Study of Uncertainty in Coordination Games.” International Economic Review 60, 2: (2019) 751–99.
  2. Cooper, David J., Christos A. Ioannou, and Shi Qi. “Endogenous Incentive Contracts and Efficient Coordination.” Games and Economic Behavior 112: (2018) 78–97.
  3. Ioannou, Christos A. and Jana Sadeh. “Time Preferences and Risk Aversion: Tests on Domain Differences.” Journal of Risk and Uncertainty 53, 1: (2016) 29–54.
  4. Ioannou, Christos A., and Julian Romero. “A Generalized Approach to Belief Learning in Repeated Games.” Games and Economic Behavior 87: (2014) 178–203.
  5. Currently, he is a co-investigator in an ESRC-funded research proposal looking at the forecasting efficiency of prediction markets.

Irene Polycarpou

irene polycarpouDr Irene Polycarpou is a Professor of Technology and Innovation in Education and the Head of the School of Sciences at the University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus. She is also a founding member and Director of the non-profit Research Centre InSPIRE (Interdisciplinary Science Promotion and Innovative Research Exploration).

Her research focuses on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education and educational technologies, with emphasis on interactive multimedia for education, design and development of educational software, e-learning, educational technologies and investigations into students' cognition and learning styles.

She led and participated in numerous research projects, funded by national, European and international organisations. She has several publications in international scientific journals and conferences, and she supervised PhD students in areas related to her expertise.

She is an elected board member of the European Office Cyprus, an appointed member of the Advisory Committee for Digital Technologies in Education of the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth, a member of the organizing committee and judge for the Cyprus Digital Championship, a member of the grant jury of the European Youth Awards (EYA), and an elected board member of the ACM-W Cyprus chapter.

She served as an expert evaluator for EU funding programmes, a reviewer for several journals and conferences, and a member of the program and organising committee of several international conferences. She is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

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