Nikolaos Vettas

Nikolaos Vettas is the General Director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) since 2013. He is also a Professor at the Athens University of Economics and Business, since 2003, where he has served as the Chairman of the Economics Department and a member of the Senate and University Council. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, USA, and has been an Associate Professor at Duke University, USA and a visiting Professor at INSEAD, France and Singapore. He serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Industrial Organization, member of the Executive Committee of the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, a Research Fellow at CEPR and a Research Associate of the HO at the LSE. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association, of the Journal of Industrial Economics, a member of the Hellenic Competition Commission and of the Economic Advisory Group for Competition Policy at the European Commission (DG-Comp.). His expertise is primarily in the areas of microeconomics, industrial organization, regulation and competition policy and his research is published in journals such as the Review of Economic Studies, International Economic Review, Rand Journal of Economics and Journal of Industrial Economics. He is a co-organizer of the Conference for Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics since 2002 and a co-editor of Beyond Austerity: Reforming the Greek Economy, MIT Press 2017. He has served as a vice-Chair of the Committee for the Growth Strategy for the Greek Economy, 2021.