Professor Kleio Akrivou

She researches ethics and economics, rooted in European philosophy tradition, with a focus on personalist virtue ethics and transcendental anthropology to inform business ethics and moral education. Her work relates to management personalist humanistic philosophy and the practice of responsible and ethical management and sustainability oriented challenges. These challenges involve human action, decision-making, collaboration via positive relational and personal growth and social impact for all aspects of sustainability.

Following work in economics and management and earning a PhD in moral human development , Kleio studied classical moral philosophy. Her PhD and earlier degrees were in Cleveland, USA, Strasbourg, France and Athens, Greece. Kleio is a visiting scholar at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, and its Institute for Culture and Society.

Kleio is a member of the European Business Ethics Network, the Society for Business Ethics, the Association of Moral Education, the Academy of Management and the Academy of Management Learning and Education Board. Kleio has been publishing works in leading international and peer-review journals such as Business Ethics: a European Review, the Journal of Business Ethics, Leadership Quarterly, the Humanistic Management Journal, Cogent Education, Frontiers and the Academy of Management Learning and Education. She also published edited volumes with E. Elgar and Springer. She is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.