‘Tragic and sudden death': UC Berkeley professor slain in Greece while visiting family

San Francisco Chronicle​

12-07-2025

A UC Berkeley business professor was shot and killed in Greece this month while visiting family, according to his brother and international media reports.
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, was slain on July 4 in Agia Paraskevi, a suburb of Athens, as he approached the home where his children lived.
Jeziorski's assailant, described as a masked man, fled on foot, and police arrived at the scene soon after.
On a WhyDonate, a European fundraising platform similar to GoFundMe, Jeziorski's brother called him 'the victim of a terrible crime' whose perpetrator remains at large.
'Our family is heartbroken, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served,' Lukasz Jeziorski wrote, describing his brother as 'a loving father to two young children and a beloved professor' at Berkeley, and a 'leading scholar in marketing science, industrial organization and data analytics.'
The brother wrote that his family is raising money for legal fees and to transfer Jeziorski's remains to Poland.
On his Facebook page, Lukasz Jeziorski said his brother's killing had taken place just a month after their father's death on June 4.
'We barely started to get over it,' he wrote, 'and already on July 4th another tragedy occurred.'
According to a report on the Polish news site TVP World, Jeziorski had two children with his ex-wife, a Greek woman he had met in the U.S. He had traveled to Greece to attend a hearing concerning the custody of his children, according to reports, leading to speculation that the shooting was a contract killing.
In response to the tragedy, Haas School of Business Dean Jennifer Chatman released a statement calling Jeziorski a 'beloved member' of the school's marketing faculty.
'I am heartbroken by the tragic and sudden death of Professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski,' Chatman said in a statement to the Daily Californian. 'While authorities are investigating what happened, our immediate focus is on supporting our community during this difficult period. My heart goes out to Przemek's family and loved ones. We will miss him.'
The school did not immediately respond to a Chronicle request for comment.
The killing prompted colleagues to post memorials on social media, including one from longtime friend Olga Adamkiewicz, who said she'd known Jeziorski for nearly 40 years.
'When I saw the first text message, I thought it was some kind of joke,' she wrote in a July 8 Facebook post. 'In Europe, where access to guns seems very difficult, these are not the situations we are prepared for in the first place.'
Adamkiewicz described Jeziorski as a man full of 'passion, dreams and with a head full of ideas.'
'His scientific career speaks for itself,' she wrote.
A Polish national, Jeziorski, who went by 'Przemek,' studied at the Warsaw School of Economics, where he obtained his bachelor's degree in economics.
Jeziorski then studied at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago, and obtained a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 2010, according to his curriculum vitae. He went on to teach at the University of Arizona and Johns Hopkins University before returning to Berkeley's Haas School of Business as a marketing professor in 2018, according to his CV.
Jeziorski also co-created Keybee, an app connecting owners of short-term rental properties with service providers.