George Pagoulatos is the Director General of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), Professor of European Politics and Economy at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges. He is an Advisor on European affairs to the President of the Hellenic Republic, and has served as Senior Advisor and Director of Strategy at the PM Office under two Prime Ministers of Greece (2011-2012). He sits at the Governing Board of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC), and has served as member of the High Council of the European University Institute in Florence (2010-13), and President of ECSA-Greece (2013-14). He is a regular columnist in the Sunday edition of the main centrist newspaper Kathimerini since 2007. Pagoulatos holds degrees from the University of Athens and the University of Oxford (MSc, DPhil), where he was a Rhodes scholar. His research and publications focus on the EMU and the EU, Southern European and Greek political economy, economic governance, political economy of banking and finance, political economy of reform. He has extensive experience in advising government and private sector.