sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides
School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics, London School of Economics, & Professor of European Studies, University of Cyprus
Sir Christopher Pissarides is the 2010 Nobel Prize laureate in economics. He holds the Regius Chair of Economics at the London School of Economics and the Chair of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. He specialises in the economics of labour markets, economic growth and structural change, especially as they relate to obstacles to free-market clearing. In the last decade he has worked extensively on the employment implications of automation and artificial intelligence and on the emergence of China as a global economic power. In 2020 he chaired the Committee for a New Growth Plan for Greece, whose report bears his name. He has written several books and contributed extensively to professional journals, magazines and the press. He has received several prizes, awards and prestigious Academy fellowships for his work, including the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus and a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.