He is currently serving as the Director of the Section of Political Economy and as a member of the Research Programmes Committee of the University of Athens. He holds a BA in Economics from his Department and a PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge. He is the author of three books on economics, the latest being Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World [with Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Halevi, Routledge 2011].