Emeritus Professor Peter Soldatos is the founder of “PGS Research”, active in research and consulting in the fields of Energy Economics, Renewable Energy Sources and Strategic Planning. Ηe has served as a Member of the Board of the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for Higher Education with responsibility for the “Economics & Management” scientific fields. He has directed the Postgraduate Studies in Agribusiness Management for more than ten years and led the Laboratory of Agribusiness Management of the Agricultural University of Athens as Professor of Financial Analysis and Strategic Planning for over twelve years. He has also been the Director of the Entrepreneurship Programme of the Agricultural University of Athens for another ten years.

Professor Soldatos has received his basic education in Athens, (BSc, Athens University of Economics and Business) and then he moved to England where he studied at the University of Birmingham and was awarded the Degrees of MSc in National Economic Planning and PhD in Economics. He worked for three years as a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham and contributed to the construction of the UK Energy Sector long term planning model: “The Birmingham Energy Model”. Later he joined British Gas as a Senior Corporate Planner until he returned to Greece to take the post of Corporate Planner in the Commercial Branch of the S&B Business Group.

Since 1986 Peter Soldatos has been a Faculty Member of the Agricultural University of Athens where he taught courses in Financial Mathematics, Investment Evaluation, Strategic Planning and Financial Analysis. In parallel, he has closely collaborated as a Strategic Planning Consultant and Organiser of Financial Planning Training Seminars with large private-sector Corporations for over twenty years until 2010. Today he teaches Business and Management in two Postgraduate Courses of the Agricultural University of Athens and is a freelance Business Consultant.

His research covers a wide range of fields in agribusiness, such as cost analysis, project evaluation, energy policy, financial evaluation of agricultural crops, the economics of water desalination, and the evaluation of agro-industrial chains.

Peter Soldatos has extensively published in the fields of energy economics, including the appraisal of conventional and renewable sources of energy with emphasis in electricity generation, the production of biofuels and the integration of renewable energy systems. He has contributed to several books and has published a large number of articles in international scientific journals, such as Energy Policy, Energy Economics, Economics of Planning, Desalination, Biomass and Bioenergy, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, etc.