Dr Dimitrios Salampasis

Dr. Dimitrios Salampasis is the Director, Master of Financial Technologies and Lecturer of FinTech Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Swinburne Business School, Swinburne University of Technology. Dimitrios is a Visiting Professor of FinTech at the University of Québec at Rimouski, Canada, a Blockchain and FinTech Fellow at the Singapore University of Social Sciences and a Visiting Faculty at the School of Management in Fribourg, Switzerland. Dimitrios is a member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors) and a Senior Associate within the Financial Services Institute of Australasia. Dimitrios has a PhD in Industrial Engineering Business and Management from the Lappeenranta University of Technology in Finland and two Executive Programme Certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School. Dimitrios has completed studies in Greece, Norway, Luxembourg, Finland and the USA.

Prior joining academia, Dimitrios worked in the management consulting industries being involved in global advisory and consulting activities on emerging market investing assisting companies in developing long-term strategic focus and sustainable market business strategies. Dimitrios is publishing in international peer-reviewed academic journals and books and his work is regularly presented in major international conferences and invited keynote speeches and lectures around the world.

Dimitrios is interested in the organizational, human, technological and societal sides of innovation and open innovation in financial services and FinTech innovation. His research, teaching, industry engagement and advisory work revolve around FinTech entrepreneurship and sustainable development, open banking and ecosystem-driven FinTech business models, Blockchain-based business models and SGDs, quantum computing for business, digital transformation in banking and FinTech education.

Dimitrios is serving as a mentor and advisor for many start-ups and scale ups in Australia and abroad and is regularly involved in advisory work with key private, public and governmental stakeholders of the Australian and international FinTech and broader business ecosystem.