Nikos Christodoulakis

Born in Chania, Crete, Nicos Christodoulakis attended high school in Zografou, Athens. In 1970, he received the First Award in the competition by the Hellenic Mathematical Society. He studied in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, and graduated in 1975. During his studies, he actively participated in the resistance movement against the military dictatorship that culminated in the Athens Polytechnic uprising in November 1973. After the fall of the dictatorship, he was elected chairman of the Students’ Association of the Faculty (1974-1975). In 1976, he testified at the Athens Martial Court against the junta leaders charged with the violent suppression of the Polytechnic occupation in 1973. In 1977-1979, he completed his military service in the Engineers Corps. During 1974-1980, he worked as a consultant engineer in construction and manufacturing companies, and as adjunct professor in the Technological Institutions (TEI) in Kozani and Athens. Receiving a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation (IKY) and the British Council, he attended postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge (1980-1984), obtaining an MPhil in Control Systems Theory and a PhD on policy design under uncertainty. Member of the Darwin College, Cambridge.^[1]

Over the following years he worked as a consultant engineer in some companies (1974–1980) he became a teaching professor at the Technological Educational Institutes (TEI) in Greece (1977–1980), a Senior Research Officer at the University of Cambridge (1984–1986), an assistant professor at the Athens University of Economics (1986–1989), a Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (1989–1990), a visiting professor at the University of Cyprus (1996), a visiting professor at the Charles University in Prague (1992–1993) and the Vice-Rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business (1992–1994), where he's also a teacher since 1990 up to present, currently teaching at the Department of International & European Economic Studies of the university. He was also a researcher in the Tinbergen Institute, the London School of Economics and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has also published many economy-related academic books and articles over the last three decades.