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People

Who is who 

The Hellenic Observatory is built around the Eleftherios Venizelos Chair on Contemporary Greek Studies and comprises a small team of academic staff,  researchers, visiting fellows, and research associates, who are supported by a dedicated professional services team.

 Hellenic Observatory Core Academic Staff

 

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Professor Kevin Featherstone 

Hellenic Observatory Director; Eleftherios Venizelos Professor of Contemporary Greek Studies and Professor of European Politics

 

 

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Dr Spyros Economides

Hellenic Observatory Deputy Director; Associate Professor of International Relations and European Politics

  

 

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Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis

Associate Professor of Political Economy

Visiting Staff

The Hellenic Observatory (HO) hosts Academics or Policy Practitioners who want to spend a period of between 6-12 months at the LSE to conduct independent research on a topic relevant to the work of the Hellenic Observatory. The Visiting Fellows, Visiting Senior Fellows & Visiting Professors play an active part in the intellectual life of the Hellenic Observatory during their fellowship. Our Current Visiting Staff are: 

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Professor Anthony Bartzokas

Visiting Professor in Practice

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Dr Athanasia Chalari

Visiting Senior Fellow

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Dr Philipp Katsinas

Visiting Fellow

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Dr Dimitris Soudias 

Visiting Fellow 

Professional Services

Maria Komninou
Hellenic Observatory Manager

Room CBG 5.07
m.komninou@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5096

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Areti-Eleftheria Chatzistergou 
Administrator

Room CBG 5.07
a.e.chatzistergou@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0) 20 7107 5309

Research Associates

Research Associates are scholars from within LSE and from other institutions worldwide whose work and research is relevant to the Hellenic Observatory and who over the years have made significant contributions to the achievements of the Centre. 

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Professor George Alogoskoufis

Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics &  Business; Fellow of the European Economic Association (EEA); Former Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic & European Studies,Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University (2016-2019); Former Greek Minister of Economy and Finance, 2004-2009
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Professor Nicos Christodoulakis

Professor of Economics, Athens University of Economics & Business;
Former Greek Minister of Economy & Finance, 2001-2004 
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Dr Effie Fokas

Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)
Principle Investigator, European Research Council GRASSROOTSMOBILISE project
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Professor Panayotis C. Ioakimidis

Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens
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Katseli Louka

Louka Katseli
Professor of International Economics and Development, Department of Economics, University of Athens

Former Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping; Former Minister for Labour and Social Security
Former non-executive Chair of the Board in the National Bank of Greece
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Dr Stella Ladi

Senior Lecturer in Public Management, Queen Mary University of London; Assistant professor at Panteion University in Athens
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Professor Eleni Louri-Dendrinou

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
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Professor Costas Meghir

Professor of Economics, University College London; 
Douglas A. Warner III Professor, Yale University; 
Co-Director ESRC Research Centre, Institute for Fiscal Studies
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Professor Achilleas Mitsos

Professor of International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean, Greece

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Professor George Pagoulatos 

Professor of European Politics and Economy, Athens University of Economics and Business 
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Professor Dimitris Papadimitriou

Professor of Politics, University of Manchester; 
Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 
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Professor Apostolis Philippopoulos

Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
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Dr Dimitris Sotiropoulos

Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens

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Professor Panos Tsakloglou

Professor of International & European Economic Studies,  Athens University of Economics & Business;
Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn)
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Professor Dimitri Vayanos

Professor of Finance, LSE; 
Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality
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Research Advisory Groups

The Hellenic Observatory has launched the Hellenic Observatory Research Calls Programme and the A.G. Leventis Research Innovation Programme on Cyprus with the purpose of developing and supporting high-quality academic and policy-related research and publications within the social sciences, on Greece and Cyprus. To achieve a diversity and breadth of topics and to gain from the highest level of academic support, expertise and standards, Research Advisory Groups have been established respectively, comprising of senior academic colleagues (LSE & non-LSE).

The members of the Hellenic Observatory Research Programme group can be found below: 

Arapoglou-Vassilis

Vassilis Arapoglou
Professor in Urban Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Crete 
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Avgerou Chrisanthi

Chrisanthi Avgerou 
Professor of Information Systems, Department of Management, LSE 

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Bryant Rebecca

Rebecca Bryant 
Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

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Christodoulakis

Nicos Christodoulakis 
Professor of Economics, AUEB

Former Greek Minister of Economy & Finance, 2001-2004 
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Joan Costa FOnt

Joan Costa-Font 
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy and the European Institute, LSE
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De Grauwe Paul

Paul De Grauwe
John Paulson Chair in European Economy, European Institute, LSE 
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Dimitrakopoulos Dionyssis

Dionyssis Dimitrakopoulos
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London
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Ellinas Antonis

Antonis Ellinas
Associate Professor, University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences

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Effie Fokas
Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

Principle Investigator, European Research Council GRASSROOTSMOBILISE project
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Michalis Haliassos
Professor and Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt

Founding Director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance
Research Fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research, and of NETSPAR (Netherlands)
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Daphne Halikiopoulou
Professor Daphne Halikiopoulou, Chair in Comparative Politics, University of York
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Kallinikos Jannis

Jannis Kallinikos 
Professor of Information Systems, Department of Management, LSE 

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Kalyvas Stathis

Stathis Kalyvas
Gladstone Professorship of Government in the Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford

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Katseli Louka

Louka Katseli
Professor of International Economics and Development, Department of Economics, University of Athens

Former Minister for the Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping; Former Minister for Labour and Social Security
Former non-executive Chair of the Board in the National Bank of Greece
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Eleni Louri-Dendrinou
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business

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Lyberaki Antigone

Antigone Lyberaki
Professor of Economics, Panteion University

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Marilena-Simiti

Marilena Simiti
Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Department of International and European Studies, University of Piraeus
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Achilleas Mitsos
Professor of International Economic Relations, University of the Aegean, Greece

Moustaki Irini

Irini Moustaki
Professor and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Statistics, LSE

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Pagoulatos George

George Pagoulatos
Professor of European Politics and Economy,  AUEB

Visiting Professor College of Europe, Bruges
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Papadimitriou Dimitris

Dimitris Papadimitriou
Professor of Politics, University of Manchester; Director of the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence 

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Papadopoulos Yiannis

Yannis Papadopoulos
Professor of Public Policy, University of Lausanne

Member of the Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation
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Apostolis Philippopoulos
Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business
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Pissarides Chris

Sir Christopher Pissarides
Regius Professor of Economics, LSE
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Smith Karen

 

Karen Smith
Professor of International Relations, LSE

Director of the European Foreign Policy Unit (within the International Relations Department)
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Dimitris Sotiropoulos
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens

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Spanou Calliope

Calliope Spanou
Professor of Administrative Science, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Greek Ombudsman 2011 – 2015
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Anna Triandafyllidou
Professor of Sociology, Canada Excellence Research Chair on Migration and Integration, Department of Sociology, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Panos Tsakloglou
Professor of International & European Economic Studies, AUEB Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA, Bonn)

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Tsoukalis Loukas

Loukas Tsoukalis
Professor of European Integration at the University of Athens  President of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP)

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Tziovas Dimitris

Dimitris Tziovas
Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham

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Vasilopoulou-Sofia

Sofia Vasilopoulou
Professor of European Politics, Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London
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Vayanos Dimitri

Dimitri Vayanos
Professor of Finance, LSE

Director of the Paul Woolley Centre for the Study of Capital Market Dysfunctionality
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The members of the A.G. Leventis Research Innovation Programme on Cyprus group are:

Bryant Rebecca

Rebecca Bryant 
Professor of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, Netherlands
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Charalambous

Giorgos Charalambous
Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Nicosia
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Olga Demetriou
Associate Professor in Post-Conflict Reconstruction in the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University
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Ellinas Antonis

Antonis Ellinas
Associate Professor, University of Cyprus, Department of Social and Political Sciences
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Loizides

Neophytos Loizides
Professor of International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent
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Yiannis Papadakis

Yiannis Papadakis
Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus
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Pissarides Chris

Sir Christopher Pissarides
Regius Professor of Economics, LSE
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Sarris

Michalis Sarris
Independent Public Policy Professional, Former Minister of Finance  
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Research Officers

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Dr Theodoros Arvanitopoulos

Hellenic Observatory Research Officer

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Dr Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni

Hellenic Bank Association Postdoctoral Fellow