Emmanuel Roussakis is an Emeritus Professor of Finance at the College of Business of Florida International University in Miami, Florida. He is also a recipient of several U.S. Department of State awards--Fulbright Specialist in Kuwait (2017), Morocco (2014), Indonesia (2013) and Russia (2012), Lecturer at the Fulbright International Summer Institute in Bulgaria (2011), and Fulbright Scholar in Romania (2010).

Dr. Roussakis has taught at many universities in the USA and abroad, worked for American and European banks, served in an advisory capacity to government agencies in the United States and Europe, and participated in the negotiations for Greece's admission to the European Economic Community in commercial banks and banking policy.  Professor Roussakis is also the editor of, and contributor to, International Lending by U.S. Commercial Banks:  A Casebook (Praeger, 1981), International Banking:  Principles and Practices (Praeger, 1983), and Cases in Commercial Bank Management (Kolb Publishing Co., 1994).  His book Commercial Banking in an Era of Deregulation, 2nd edition, was translated into Chinese and published by the China Price Publishing, Beijing, in 1992.