The Association of Governance, Risk & Compliance
Dr. Stelios Platis
Chairman, MAP S.Platis Group
UK & Cyprus
Dr. Stelios Platis is an economist, with a PhD in Finance and Macroeconomics from the Faculty of Economics and Politics of the University of Cambridge.
In 2003 he founded and directed up until 2015, the internationally-awarded regulatory consulting Group, MAP S.Platis, providing risk management, internal audit and compliance support services to the EU financial services sector. In 2015, Dr. Platis has taken up the position of Chairman of the MAP S.Platis Group and MAP FinTech – the financial technology subsidiary of the Group, as well as of the executive education and professional studies institutes, the European Institute of Management and Finance (EIMF) and the London Governance and Compliance Academy (LGCA), where since 2009 he has been the Chairman of the Association of Cyprus International Investment Firms (ACIIF).
Education & Qualifications
He has taught Financial Accounting for the MSc Finance Programme at the London Business School, Financial Engineering and Risk Management for the MBA Programme at the Cyprus International Institute of Management, served as a Director of RiskLab (Cyprus) in association with the University of Cyprus and has been an associate of the Department of Applied Economics of the University of Cambridge.
Areas of Expertise & Experience
Dr. Platis is certified to provide a number of investment services, and served as Internal Auditor / Compliance Officer / Risk Manager for a significant number of Investment Firms providing investment services in the European Union and globally and acted as a consultant on financial, risk management and economic matters to a number of organisations, committees and boards of directors.
Between 2003-2015, he was being regularly invited by international media to talk about current economic and political affairs, including the BBC, ITV, CNN, Bloomberg, ERT, MEGA, CyBC. He has been quoted in the Media by established channels such as Dow Jones, Reuters, Financial Times, Washington Times, Moscow Times, Le Monde, amongst many others.