Sir Christopher Pissarides

Sir Christopher Pissarides is a British-Cypriot economist specialising in the macroeconomics of labour markets, economic growth and economic policy. He received the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, shared with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for their analysis of markets with search frictions.

He is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. He chairs the Centre for Macroeconomics, which convenes economists from Cambridge, LSE, UCL, the Bank of England and NIESR.

During the Cypriot financial crisis he served as chairman of the National Economy Council from 2012 to 2014. In 2018 he co-founded the Institute for the Future of Work to advance quality employment in the age of automation and AI.