Elias Papaioannou is the academic director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development and economics professor at London Business School, focusing on  nternational finance, political economy, applied econometrics, growth, and development. In the academic year 2019/2020, Elias held the Varian Visiting Professor of Economics at the MIT Department of Economics. After completing his doctorate in 2005, he worked for two years at the Financial Research Division of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2007 to 2012, he served as an economics assistant at Dartmouth College in the US. Between 2010 and 2012, he was a visiting assistant professor at the economics department of Harvard University in the US. His research has been recognized with a consolidator ERC grant in 2018, the inaugural 2013 European Investment Bank Young Economist Award, the 2005 European Economic Association’s Young Economist Award, and the Royal Economic Association’s Austin Robinson Memorial Prize, 2008. He is a research affiliate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Elias’ research has been published in leading peer-refereed journals, with his work appearing in numerous book volumes. He regularly consults with international organizations and institutional investors on macroeconomic developments in the EU and Greece. In 2005, Elias received his Ph.D. from LBS. He holds a Master’s in Public Policy and Administration from Columbia University and an LL.B. Bachelor’s in Law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.