Dr Panayiota Koulafetis is a Visiting Professor of Finance at King’s Business School. She has developed and leads core modules in Investments, Investment Analysis and optional modules in Credit Risk Management and Credit Ratings.

Dr Panayiota Koulafetis has held a number of positions in the Investment Banking, Asset Management, Rating Agency and Energy Trading Sectors. At Moody’s Investors Service Ltd she led the rating analysis and surveillance on a wide range of Structured Finance transactions across different jurisdictions: Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS), Asset Backed Securities (ABS), Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS), Whole Business transactions/Corporate Securitisation, Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Lease transactions.

At the Securitization department of Nomura International plc, she dealt with various transactions across different asset classes.

At Duke Energy she led the structuring of Energy Derivatives and has dealt with complex Option Structures. She built trading models to price, evaluate bid proposals and manage Hybrid Structures, such as Virtual Power Stations, Flexible Power Purchase deals, Take or Pay (TOP) & Swing Options.

She has also held Quantitative Research and Risk Management roles at Westdeutsche Landesbank (WestLB) Asset Management Ltd and Southern Company.

Dr Panayiota Koulafetis has been working on various asset classes and is a regular speaker at academic and industry conferences. She has published in academic journals and practitioner periodicals.

She is also the author of the book ‘Modern Credit Risk Management, Theory and Practice’ by Palgrave Macmillan.

She holds a PhD in Finance from Bayes Business School (formerly Cass Business School), City University of London, an MSc in Business Finance from Brunel University and a BSc (Hons) in Business Administration from University of Piraeus in Greece.