George Alogoskoufis is Professor Emeritus and former Chairman (2020-2022) of the Department of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. Since 2009 he has been a Research Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory of the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Fellow of the European Economic Association. For three academic years, 2016 to 2019, he was Constantine Karamanlis Professor of Hellenic and European Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, at Tufts University. From September 1996 to October 2009 he was a member of the Hellenic Parliament, while from March 2004 to January 2009 he was Minister of Economy and Finance.
He holds a Ph.D in Economics from LSE (1981) and specialises in macroeconomics and international economics. His research focuses on international macroeconomics, inflation and unemployment, economic growth, exchange rate regimes, monetary and fiscal policy and the European and Greek economies.
He has published seven books and over fifty papers in some of the top academic journals in Economics (American Economic Review, The Journal of Political Economy, The Economic Journal, The European Economic Review, The Journal of Monetary Economics, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Economica and others) with many references and citations in the international literature.