Dimitris Katsikas is a professor of international and european political economy and director of the Research Centre for Economic Policy, Governance and Development at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. From January 2020, he is also the Head of the Crisis Observatory at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) and Visiting Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory, LSE's research centre on contemporary Greece and Cyprus. In recent years, the Greek and European economic crises have become his major research interests. Among his most recent publications is the co-edited volume: "Youth inclusion and gender equality in the Greek labour market" (Papazissis, 2021).