Professor Lenos Trigeorgis is the Bank of Cyprus Chair Professor of Finance at the University of Cyprus. He previously taught at leading international universities, including Boston University, MIT, Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Harvard University.

He published widely in numerous journals on corporate finance, resource allocation, competition and strategy, financial risk and distress, and various other topics. Professor Trigeorgis is considered a world authority on managerial flexibility in decision-making under uncertainty (Theory of Real Options). In Wikipedia he is referenced as one of 60 most prominent financial economists in the world. A search in Google reveals more than 30,000 references to his work