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Andreas Papandreou, Professor of Environmental Economics

 

in the Department of Economics 

of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

Director of Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lad

Andreas Papandreou is Professor of Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He received his B.Sc. in Economics from the University of London, Queen Mary College and his M.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics. He became a Doctor of Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford University, in 1990. 

Dr. Papandreou has over 30 years of academic experience in various Universities, including University College London and Harvard. His research and published work are mostly in the fields of environmental economics, institutional economics, political economy, and welfare economics. Among his publications are “Externality and Institutions” (1998) Oxford University Press. He is a member of the Climate Change Impacts Study Committee (CCISC) of the Bank of Greece that completed the first comprehensive study of the impacts of climate change on Greece, prepared the Greek National Adaptation Plan and recently published the Economics of Climate Change that he co-authored. 

He is the Director of the MSc in Philosophy and Management at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He is the Director of the Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lab (PESD) at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Member of the Center of Excellence on Climate Change – Adaptation and Mitigation, NKUA. He is Co-chair of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Greece (SDSN Greece). The goal of SDSN is to promote knowledge based sustainable development solutions by engaging the academic community with civil society, local and national governments, and the business community. PESD and SDSN have been involved in many important initiatives promoting SDGs. 

Involvement in recent funded research projects focused on sustainable development issues include: Energy Governance for Sustainable Development (ENERGO), is funded by the EEA Grants 2014-2021; H2020 WATER-2014-2015/H2020-WATER-2015-two-stage, «DAFNE: Use of a Decision-Analytic Framework to explore the water-energy-food NExus in complex and trans-boundary water resources systems of fast growing developing countries», GA No. 690268; SIMRA – Social Innovation in Marginalized Rural Areas. H2020-ISIB-2014-2015/H2020-ISIB-2015-2 GA No. 677622; BRIGAID – BRIdges the GAp for Innovations in Disaster resilience. European Union Horizon 2020. https://en.econ.uoa.gr/staff/teaching_and_research_staff/