17Professor of Economics/Member of the Εxecutive Board at DIW Berlin

Research Director and Executive Board Member of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin), Professor of Economics at Potsdam University and Research Fellow at IZA Bonn and GLO Essen. He is member of the Economic Policy and Social Science Committees of the German Economic Association and Editor of Small Business Economics. He was a member of the Pissarides Committee. His research has been published in the leading Entrepreneurship Journals, his OpEds among others in Ta Nea and Kathimerini.