Harris Samaras is an Economist and presently the Chairman & Group CEO of PYTHEAS LTD Cyprus, an international investment banking organization, Harris has also worked with the Bank of America Group, Thomson Financial BankWatch, and Moody’s Investors Service.
His expertise lies primarily in the areas of investment and corporate banking, private equity and finance, risk management, corporate restructuring and business development.
His research and extensive publications in these areas range across practice rather than theory, economic and business thought, entrepreneurship and geopolitics.
He has been an adviser to various governments, central banks, financial institutions, and other corporates and has been a member of the board of directors of multinational organizations.
Harris’ extensive and in depth knowledge of the emerging markets of Central-Eastern Europe, MENA, Gulf, and Africa is complimented by his diverse expertise in industries such are Banking, Real Estate & Construction, Hospitality, Minerals & Mining, Agriculture, Fisheries, Environment & Alternative Energy Sources, Energy, Satellite Telecommunications and Shipping.
He advocates rather strongly, that investment banking is an art and not a science, that performance can be improved only by changing behaviour, that critical thinking is what distinguishes the beautiful crazies of the world from the ugly “sane”, that a businessman without entrepreneurial spirit is not a businessman.
His passions include the sea,