Current Position and Past Experience
Nikiforos Philyppis is currently an Assistant Professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Prior to this, he worked in auditing and consulting from 1993 to 2002 and for many undergraduate courses in Brazilian universities since 2002. He had a position as the Ombudsman of Veiga de Almeida University, part of Whitney Group in 2008 and is now a invited professor at Université François-Rabelais (IAE Tours) for the Services Marketing Masters Program.

Education, Honors and Achievements
Philyppis is a Bachelor of Administration from UFRJ with an postgraduation in Marketing from FGV-EPGE. He earned his Masters in Business Economics from Universidade Cândido Mendes in 2007 and expects to earn his Doctorate in Services Operations and Strategy from Instituto Coppead (Rank 51 FT 2011) at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro in 2012.