Zacharias Petrou is a Lecturer in the Department of Finance, Accounting and Management Science at the Cyprus University of Technology. From 2021 to 2025, he was a Lecturer at the University of Liverpool. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cyprus, two M.Sc. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin in Engineering Mechanics and in Energy & Earth Resources, and a B.Sc. in Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences from the National Technical University of Athens.

His research focuses on empirical market-based accounting and corporate finance, with particular emphasis on the role of information in [...]capital markets.