George (Yiorgos) Allayannis
Associate Professor
Darden Graduate School of Business
University of Virginia

George Allayannis is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He has taught both in the MBA Program (First Year Finance; Portfolio and Capital Markets, second year electives) and Executive Program (Developing Managerial Excellence, Investment Banking, Gulf Executive Development Program). His current research focuses on the use of currency derivatives and their impact on firm value, exchange-rate risk, and investment, as well as on the use of alternative risk management strategies by U.S. and East Asian firms. His research has appeared in leading journals, such as the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of International Money and Finance and the American Economic Review. His dissertation on modeling exchange-rate risk won the NYU Salomon Center Award for Excellence through research in finance in May 1997. He holds a PhD in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business, an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and an Electrical Engineering degree from the National Technical University of Athens.