Dr Yiannis Kitromilides is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for International Business and Sustainability, London Metropolitan University. He studied economics at the London School of Economics where he graduated in 1968 with a BSc (Econ) degree. He also holds an MA (Economics) degree from the University of Kent (1969) and a Ph. D degree from the University of London (1982). He worked as Economic Research Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat (1969-1971) and taught at the University of Greenwich between 1971 and 2006 where he was Principal Lecturer in Economics and head of the Economics Division. Since 2006 he has also taught at the University of Westminster, the University of Middlesex, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His main research interests are in the area of public policymaking, climate change policy, the crisis in the eurozone and its impact on Ireland, UK austerity policy and Banking nationalisation.
Dr Yiannis Kitromilides