Angeliki-Charikleia (Gelina) Harlaftis is the Director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies at the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) and a professor of Maritime History at the Department of History, University of Crete.

She served as President of the International Association for Maritime Economic History, Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, and Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. International Visiting Scholar at the Business History Program, Harvard Business School. She was also a visiting professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Maritime Studies, Greenwich University, London.

Her research interests include maritime history, economic and social history, business history, global history, and diaspora history.