
Manos Matsaganis
Head of the Greek and European Economy Programme; A. G. Leventis Foundation Senior Research Fellow; Professor, Polytechnic University of Milan m.matsaganis@eliamep.grProfessor of Public Finance at Polytechnic University of Milan (since 2016), and Head of the Greek & European Economy Programme at the Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens (since 2021). He worked at the Athens University of Economics and Business (2004-2016), where he founded and directed the Policy Analysis Research Unit. Earlier he had been a lecturer at the University of Crete (1996-1999 and 2001-2004), a special adviser of the Greek Prime Minister (1997-2001), and a researcher at the London School of Economics (1990-1993). He holds degrees from the Athens University of Economics and Business (BSc 1986), the University of York (MSc 1988), and the University of Bristol (PhD 1992). He has been involved in the development of EUROMOD, the European tax-benefit model, since the late 1990s. He has provided research and advice to the European Commission, the OECD, UNICEF, and the World Bank. He was a member of the Expert Group on Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion, on the invitation of European Commissioner László Andor (2012-2013). He was Fulbright Scholar at Harvard University (2014) and University of California, Berkeley (2015), Visiting Scholar at Boston University (2017, 2018), and Visiting Professor at University of Vienna (2019). He is Research Associate of the Hellenic Observatory Centre, London School of Economics (since 2024), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Feltrinelli Foundation in Milan (since 2022), and a member of the Advisory Board of the diaNEOsis foundation in Athens (since 2016). His book (with Anton Hemerijck) «Who’s afraid of the welfare state now?» was published in 2024 by Oxford University Press.