Georgios Gatopoulos Senior Researcher Head of International Macroeconomics & Finance Unit Τel: 210 9211251 E-mail: gatopoulos@iobe.gr   Born in 1980. He studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (BSc in Economics), at the London School of Economics (MSc in Finance and Economics) and at the University of Geneva (PhD in international finance). During 2004-2009, he taught undergraduate and graduate seminars in economics and finance at the Universities of Geneva and Lausanne. His research interests touch upon international macroeconomics, finance and economic policy-making. He has presented work in peer-reviewed international conferences and published in journals such as the Journal of International Money and Finance, CESifo Economic Studies, European Research Studies. During 2010-2017, he worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund’s office in Greece. In the context of three IMF programs, he conducted applied economic analysis on a broad set of issues related to the Greek crisis, including on the external and financial sectors and on structural reforms. As part of collective work on Greece, he contributed to eleven IMF country report publications, nine program reviews, while provided technical assistance on the capital controls’ regime. Since 2017, he has been part-time teaching economics at the American College of Greece – Deree. His collaboration with IOBE started in 2017.