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Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
Assumed office
1977
Personal details
BornJune 9, 1946 (1946-06-09) (age 78)
Thessaloniki, Greece
Residence(s)Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Alma materColumbia University, New School for Social Research

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (born June 9, 1946)[1] is Executive Vice President and Provost,[2] and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard College since 1977[3] and President, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College since its inception in 1986. On November 2016 he was named Greece's Minister of Economy and Development in the government of Alexis Tsipras.[4]

Biography

Early life and education

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece.[5] He received his BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1969,[6] and the PhD in economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research[7] in 1986.

Career

Among his other appointments are his positions as Distinguished Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences,[1] (Shanghai, PRC) in 2002, Vice Chairman, Trade Deficit Review Commission, United States Congress, (1999-2001),[8] Adjunct Professor on the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research (1975-1976),[9] and Executive Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer, William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York,[10] (1969-1977).

Dr. Papadimitriou has been the Executive Vice President and Provost, and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, at Bard College[11] since 1977. He is also the Executive VP of Bard College at Simon's Rock (1979 - ),[12] and President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College since 1986.[11] In addition, he was Managing Director of BARD Real Estate GmbH (2011-2015), and Managing Director of Bard College Berlin gGmbH (2011-2015).[13]

Professor Papadimitriou is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the American Symphony Orchestra ,[14] and a Member of the Editorial Boards of the Bulletin of Political Economy (2006–),[15] Challenge (2004-)[16] and Journal of Economic Analysis (2010–).[17] He has also been on the Editorial Boards of the Review of Income and Wealth (1998-2004),[18] and the Eastern Economic Journal, (1994-1997).[19]

Papadimitriou's professional memberships include The Economic Club of New York, The Bretton Woods Committee, American Economic Association, American Finance Association, Association for Evolutionary Economics, Royal Economic Society (London), Eastern Economic Association, European Economic Association, and Hellenic-American Bankers Association.

Congressional testimony

  • "Testimony on 'Performance-Based Pay'" Hearings Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Small Business Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 103d Congress, July 15, 1994.[citation needed]
  • "Testimony on 'Community Development Banks'" Hearings of the Committee on Banking, U.S. Senate, September 8, 1993
  • "Testimony on 'Banking of Small Business: Can the Community Development Bank Model Serve Small Firms in Economically Depressed Urban and Rural Communities?'" Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Small Business Committee U.S. House of Representatives, 103d Congress, June 7, 1993

Commentator

Papadimitriou is a regular contributor to the pages of Greece's Kathimerini daily newspaper, and guest-comments in the Los Angeles Times, The Huffington Post website and Bloomberg Radio.

Published works

Professor Papadimitriou is the team leader of the Macro Modeling Group of the Levy Economics Institute and has authored and co-authored numerous Levy Institute publications.

  • Financial Conditions and Macroeconomic Performance: Essays in Honor of Hyman P. Minsky, edited by Steven M. Fazzari and Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1992.[20]
  • Profits, Deficits and Instability, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1992.[21]
  • Poverty and Prosperity in the USA in the Late Twentieth Century, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N. Wolff. New York, NY: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1993.[22]
  • Aspects of the Distribution of Wealth and Income, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1994.
  • Stability in the Financial System, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, New York, NY: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 1996.
  • Modernizing Financial Systems, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press, 2000.
  • Hyman P. Minsky's Induced Investment and Business Cycles, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004.
  • The Distributional Effects of Government Spending and Taxation, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
  • Government Spending on the Elderly, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
  • Hyman P. Minsky's Stabilizing an Unstable Economy, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  • Hyman P. Minsky's John Maynard Keynes, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  • The Elgar Companion to Minsky, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.
  • Contributions in Stock-flow Modeling: Essays in Honor of Wynne Godley, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Gennaro Zezza. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
  • Contributions to Economic Theory, Policy, Development and Finance: Essays in Honor of Jan A. Kregel, edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

Honors and Awards

External links

References

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  • The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Scholars
  • Finkelstein, James A. (Ed.). "Papadimitriou, Dimitri B." (2011), in Who's Who in America, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Vol. 2). Marquis Who's Who.
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