Manos Matsaganis is Professor of Public Finance at Polytechnic University of Milan. Prior to this, he worked at the Athens University of Economics and Business (2004-2016), at the University of Crete (1996-1999 and 2001-2004), at the Greek Prime Minister’s Office (1997-2001), and at the London School of Economics (1990-1993). He holds degrees from the Athens University of Economics and Business (BSc 1986), the University of York (MSc 1988), and the University of Bristol (PhD 1992). He is Head of the Greek & European Economy Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy ELIAMEP in Athens (since 2021), and a member the Advisory Board of the diaNEOsis foundation in Athens (since 2016), and of the Scientific Committee of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan (since 2022). He has been a member of the Expert Group on Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion, European Commission (2012-2013), Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University (2014) and University of California, Berkeley (2015), Visiting Scholar at Boston University (2017, 2018), and Visiting Professor at University of Vienna (2019). His Oxford University Press book (with Anton Hemerijck) on the transformations of the European welfare state following the Eurozone and the pandemic crises was published in 2024.

Research interests: Political economy of welfare; Spatial and fiscal microsimulation; Growth strategies; Housing policy and economics.