Economist Conferences – Greece
Kevin Featherstone
Eleftherios Venizelos professor of contemporary Greek studies, professor of European politics
Professor Kevin Featherstone is Eleftherios Venizelos professor of contemporary Greek studies and professor of European politics at the London School of Economics, and Director of the Hellenic Observatory in its European Institute. He has been a regular contributor to Kathimerini. He is co-director of the LSE Programme on ‘BREXIT and Beyond’.
He is a political scientist and his research has covered both the European Union and contemporary Greece. His recent books include: The Limits of Europeanization: Reform Capacity and Policy Conflict in Greece (with D. Papadimitriou) (2008); Prime Ministers in Greece: the Paradox of Power (2015) (with D. Papadimitriou); and The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek Politics (editor, with D. Sotiropoulos; 2020). In 2014, he was awarded the ‘Order of the Phoenix’ by the President of the Hellenic Republic.