Dr Dionysios Demetis

• Anti-money laundering
• Information systems (focus on cybersecurity from a management/social science perspective)
• Systems theory (second-order cybernetics)
• Social theory of risk

• Centre for Systems Studies
• Institute of Applied Ethics

Demetis D, Technology and Anti-Money Laundering: A Systems Theory and Risk-Based Approach, Edward Elgar Publishing (2010)

Angell I and Demetis D, Science’s First Mistake: Delusions in Pursuit of Theory, Bloomsbury Academic (2010)

Hazy J, Demetis D, Lichtenstein B B, Dooley K, Backstrom T, 'Notes on the Complexity of Corruption', Academy of Management Proceedings, 1, 13073 (2017)

Demetis D and Lee A, 'Taking the First Step with Systems Theorising in Information Systems: a Response', Information and Organisation, 27, 3, pp 163-170 (2017)

Demetis D and Lee A, Crafting Theory to Satisfy the Requirements of Systems Science, Information and Organisation, 26, 4, pp 116-126 (2016)

Full list

• Information Systems
• Internet & e-Commerce
• e-Business in Supply Chain Management

Dr Demetis welcomes applications in

• Anti-money laundering
• Information systems (including cybersecurity from a social science perspective)

Current PhD supervisions

• Mohammad Al Shammari
• Nadia K. Samara
• Noemi Tambe

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice

• PhD (London School of Economics)
• MSc (London School of Economics)
• BSc in Physics (University of Crete)

• Vice-Chair of the Humber Business Resilience Forum (on cybersecurity)
• Member of the Scientific Board, Geolab Institute, Ionian University, Corfu (Greece)
• Adjunct Professor, Henley Putnam University (United States)

• Departmental Teaching Assistant award for Outstanding Contribution (Information Systems Department, London School of Economics)
• Emerald Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control
• Research Scholarships over three years (London School of Economics)
• Featured in the United Nations IMOLIN select-bibliography

• Contributed to three major EU-funded research projects, two on the intersection between information systems and anti-money laundering, and one on information society.
• Featured in the select bibliography of the United Nations for his research on anti-money laundering and risk.
• Won the Emerald Highly Commended Award from the Journal of Money Laundering Control for 'Data Growth and the Consequences to Anti-Money Laundering’.
• Co-authored a large number of research deliverables for the European Commission.
• Steering group convenor for the Future of Identity for the Information Society (FIDIS), a large-scale six-year EU-funded project with 25 academic /industry participants across the EU.
• His book, Technology and Anti-Money Laundering, was the first to provide a coherent theoretical structure for anti-money laundering research and practice based on systems theory, and the first to provide an information systems perspective on the subject.
• Received £1.1 million from the European Commission for the GATE (Next Generation Anti-Terrorist Financing Methods) project which developed best-practice guidelines for international anti-money laundering.