Dr. Chrisovalantis Malesios is a statistician, and is occupied as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Agricultural Economic and Rural Development of the Agricultural University of Athens, teaching in the fields of statistics and econometrics. During 2018-2019 he was affiliated with the Aston University, Aston Business School, working as a postdoctoral Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow. He has worked as a Teaching Fellow in the Department of the Environment in the University of the Aegean and in the Department of Agricultural Development, Democritus Univ. of Thrace for 11 years. Dr Malesios has also worked as a statistician at the Institute of Statistical Research Analysis and Documentation (I.S.R.A.D.) of Athens University of Economics. He has published over 80 papers in international refereed journals such as: Economic analysis and policy, Computational Economics, British Journal of Management, Ecological Indicators, PLοS ONE, Business Strategy and the Environment, Annals of Operations Research, Journal of Socio-Economics.