Andreas Papandreou

Andreas Papandreou is a professor in the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He received his BSc in economics from the University of London, Queen Mary College and his MSc in economics from London School of Economics. He became a doctor of philosophy at Merton College, Oxford University, in 1990.

Prof. Papandreou has 30 years of academic experience in various universities, including University College London and Harvard. His research and published work are mostly in the fields of environmental economics, institutional economics, political economy and welfare economics. Among his publications are Externality and Institutions (1998) Oxford University Press.

He is alternate head of the department of Economics and director of the section of political economy at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is a research associate of the International Center of Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8). He is the director of the Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lab (PESD) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The lab has also established the Athens Behavioral and Experimental Economics and Social Sciences Unit (ABEESS) to undertake, inter alia, experimental research relating to sustainable development. He is co-chair of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece (SDSN Greece).