Elias Papaioannou
Professor, London Business School
Professor of Economics at the London Business School, holding the Alexander Knaster Chair, where he co-directs the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. Fellow of the British Academy he also serves as a Managing Co-Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. He has been elected to serve as the European Economic Association’s Vice-President (2026), President-Elect (2027), and President (2028). He holds an LL.B. from the Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, a master’s in public administration (MPA) from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the London Business School. He worked for two years at the European Central Bank’s Financial Research Division. He worked as an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth College (2007-2012), he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Harvard University (2010-2012) and he was the Hal Varian Visiting Professor at MIT’s Department of Economics (2019-2020). His research covers international finance, political economy, economic history, growth, and development. His research has been recognized with the 2013 European Investment Bank Young Economist Award, the 2005 Young Economist Award from the European Economic Association, and the 2008 Austin Robinson Memorial Prize from the Royal Economic Society for the best paper published in the Economic Journal. In 2018, Elias received a European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant to conduct research on African economic history.
