Theodore Pelagidis is the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (since September 2020) and Professor of Economics at the University of Piraeus, Department of Shipping, Greece. He has been a NR senior fellow at the Brookings Institution during 2012-2020, a NATO scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, USA (1995); an NBG fellow at the London School of Economics, UK (2010); and an Onassis scholar and Fulbright fellow at Columbia University, USA (2008). He has also served as an expert to the IMF in the Internal Evaluation Office (2015) and to EC (Horizon, 2018).
Michael Mitsopoulos is Director in Business Environment and Regulatory Affairs at the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises, Greece. He holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University and has taught at the University of Piraeus and the Economic University of Athens. He has published extensively in academic journals and is the co-author with Pelagidis of Understanding the Crisisin Greece: From Boom to Bust (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 & 2012 2nd ed.) and of Greece. From Exit to Recovery? (Brookings, 2014).