George Pagoulatos is Associate Professor of Politics at the Department of International & European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics & Business; Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges; Senior Research Fellow, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP). He holds a Law degree from the University of Athens , M.Sc. and D.Phil. in Politics from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s College), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Areas of research include: European Union and comparative political economy; public policy; Greece and Southern Europe ; political economy of banking and finance; politics of economic policies; privatization and regulatory reform; civil society. He has served as member of the Greek government’s Council of Economic Advisors, member of the National Council University Education Committee, and a board member of various academic and civic organizations. He is a regular contributor to the Sunday edition of the main Greek centrist newspaper Kathimerini and an occasional analyst for the BBC World Radio and Television. He has edited, authored and co-authored four books, and published extensively in leading journals such as West European Politics, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of Public Policy, Public Administration, European Journal of Political Research, etc. He has lectured at several universities including Oxford , LSE, Yale , New York University, and Princeton University , where he was a postdoctoral fellow (1998-99). He was short-listed for the Rudolf Wildenmann “best paper” prize of the European Consortium of Political Research, and has received the Academy of Athens award for best book in economics (Greece’s New Political Economy: State, Finance and Growth from Postwar to EMU, Oxford St. Antony’s Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). He has been part of several EC-funded networks of excellence, as well as the research project DOSEI (Domestic Structures and European Integration), nominated for the Commission’s 2006 Descartes prize for scientific excellence.