Professor Arcoumanis’ academic career includes appointments as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London, Dean of Engineering & Mathematics and later Vice-President at City, University of London, as well as Honorary/Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong, Tianjin and Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics in China and at Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Russia.

Professor Arcoumanis is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the UK Institute of Directors as well as a former Ambassador-at-large of the Hellenic Republic for Energy Policy and New Technologies.

Over the last few years he has also acted as Director and Member of the Board of the Angelicoussis Shipping Group and is presently Chairman of the Academic Board of the Metropolitan College of Greece.