The website editorial board is composed of professors, researchers, doctors, doctoral and graduate students with their primary research interest being focused on maritime history. The starting point for the creation of the marehist website was the Ionian University and its Department of History. However, the site welcomes members of other Universities, such as the University of Piraeus and its Department of Maritime Studies, the University of Aegean and its Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport, as well as members from non-Greek universities.
The aims of the marehist website are to: (a) enhance the current scientific research in the field of maritime history, (b) strengthen the communication and debate among maritime historians, and (c) promote as well as strengthen the research in maritime archival resources. The marehist website is an invitation to those who are captivated by travelling through space and time in the seas and the oceans of the world. Our ambition is to bring together not only the universities’ crews but the crews of shipping companies and vessels, as well.

The editorial board of the marehist website is composed of the following members:

Eleni Beneki, Doctoral candidate in History, Head of research and promotion, Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation
Eleni Beneki completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology. She is currently a phd candidate at the Ionian University working on the history of greek-owned shipping. She has conducted research in Archives and Libraries in Venice, the U.K and Romania and she has several publications in economic history, the history of greek-owned shipping, local history, the history of sports and the Olympic Games. Her research interests include business history and sponsorship in culture. She has worked as scientific partner of the Academy of Athens, and the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive and she is currently Head of Research and Communication of the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation.
Contact details: BenekiE@piraeusbank.gr

Apostolos Delis, Doctor (Ionian University)

Faye Frangedis, Bachelor of Maritime Studies (University of Piraeus), Business Executive

Katerina Galani, Doctoral candidate in History, University of OxfordKaterina Galani obtained her Bachelor in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens. She continued her graduate studies in the University of Oxford where she submitted her M.Sc on the entrepreneurial organization of the Levant trade in the 18th century.Currently she is completing her PhD on “British shipping and trade in the Mediterranean in the Age of War, 1770-1815”, at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Knick Harley. Her research touches upon topics such as the maritime history in the Mediterranean, the Levant Company and free trade during the Napoleonic era, business history, and the application of new institutional economics (network and agency theory, institutional changes) in shipping and trade. She is a member of the Greek Economic History Society, the British Economic History Society and the International Maritime Economic History Association.
Personal Web Page: http://oxford.academia.edu/KaterinaGalani
Contact details: galanikat@gmail.com

Gelina Harlaftis, Associate Professor of Maritime and Economic History, Ionian University
Gelina Harlaftis has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.), in St. Antony’s College between 1983 and 1988. She has taught at the University of Piraeus from 1991 to 2002 and since 2003 is at the Department of History of the Ionian University. She was President of the International Association of Maritime Economic History during the period 2004-2008. During the fall of the academic year 2008-2009 she was Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar in Business History Program of the Harvard Business School and in the spring a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College of the Oxford University.Among her publications are Greek Shipowners and Greece 1945-1975, ( Athlone Press, 1993), History of Greek-owned Shipping (Routledge Press, 1996). Her last books are Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009) with Ioannis Theotokas and The New Ways of History (IB Tauris, London 2010) with Nikos Karapidakis, Kostas Sbonias and Vaios Vaiopoulos.
Personal Web Page: h ttp://ionio.academia.edu/GelinaHarlaftis)
Contact details: gelina@ionio.gr

Panayiotis Kapetanakis, Doctor (Ionian University)
Panayiotis Kapetanakis was born in Athens, Greece, on July 14, 1976. He has graduated in History and Archaeology from the National and Capodistrian University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology) (1999). He has completed his Master degree in Modern Greek History (2005), and his Doctoral degree in Maritime History (2010) at the Ionian University, Corfu (Department of History). For the elaboration of his doctoral thesis he has received a scholarship from the Research project, titled “Greek Maritime Centers: Identification and Administration of Maritime Heritage of the Ionian and Aegean Seas,” financed by the E.U. and the Greek Ministry of Development. His main research interests are in the fields of 19th and 20th c. maritime history, colonialism, British imperialism and Greek diaspora. He manages a database on the maritime history and activities of the British semi-colony of the Ionian Islands, under the title: Odysseus – Ionian Maritime History Database, 1810-1864.
Contact details: kapetpan@gmail.com

Ioannis Theotokas, Assistant Professor of Shipping Management, University of Aegean
Dr. I. Theotokas is Associate Professor at the Department of Shipping, Trade and Transport of the University of the Aegean. He has a background of economics and has specialized in Shipping Management. He received his PhD from the University of Piraeus (1997). His research interests include topics in Management, Human Resource Management and Strategic Management applied to shipping business. He has participated as principal researcher in research projects and consultancy studies. He is the co-author (with G.Harlaftis) of the book Leadership in world shipping. Greek family firms in international business (Palgrave, 2009). He has published 23 papers in academic journals and books and has presented over twenty-five peer reviewed papers at international scientific conferences.
Personal Web Page: http://www.stt.aegean.gr/index.php?option=com_cvs&id=8&view=cv&Itemid=132&lang=el
Contact details: gtheotokas@aegean.gr

Alexandra Papadopoulou, Doctor (Ionian University)

Katerina Papakonstantinou, Lecturer, Ionian University
Personal Web Page: http://ionio.academia.edu/KaterinaPapakonstantinou
Contact details: katpapakon@gmail.com

Katerina Vourkatioti, Doctor (Panteion University), Business Executive
Katerina Vourkatioti holds a PhD from Panteion University on “Ralli Brs c.1814-1961, the archetype of the Greek Diaspora entrepreneurship”. She has conducted research in British archives and libraries. Her research interests are mainly focused on Business, Maritime and Entrepreneurial History in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Currently she is working in the banking sector.
Contact details: info@marehist.gr