George Pagoulatos is Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2006. He is Director General of ELIAMEP, Greece’s leading European and foreign policy think tank, and member of the Governing Board of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC). He is an Advisor on European affairs of the President of the Hellenic Republic, he was Senior Advisor and Director of Strategy at the PM Office under two non-political Prime Ministers in 2011-12. Member of the High Council of the European University Institute in Florence (2010-13), President of ECSA-Greece (2013-14), and a regular columnist in the Sunday edition of the main centrist newspaper Kathimerini since 2007. His publications focus on the EMU and the EU, political economy of finance, political economy of reform. Pagoulatos holds degrees from the University of Athens (LLB) and the University of Oxford (MSc and DPhil), where he was a Rhodes scholar. He has extensive experience in advising government and the private sector.