Constantine Michalopoulos

Constantine Michalopoulos has worked on and written about economic development and poverty eradication for more than half a century. From 1982 to 1997 and 1999-2001, Michalopoulos served as a senior World bank official, including as Director for Economic Policy and Coordination. Before that, he worked for USAID (1969-1982) finishing as its Chief Economist (1981-2). He was also Special Advisor to the WTO (1997-1999) and taught economics at several US universities. From 2012 to 2019, he was Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Johns Hopkins University. In 2019 he was appoimted Senior Policy Advisor at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy, a think in his native Athens. Dr. Michalopoulos is a graduate of Athens College and holds a Ph.D in economics from Columbia University.Now retired, he splits his time between Lusby, on the Chesapeake Bay and Rafina, on the coast, east of Athens.