Andreas Papandreou is a Professor in the Economics Department of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has 26 years of academic experience in various Universities. His work spans the fields of environmental, institutional, political and welfare economics. Among his publications are Externality and Institutions (1998) published by OUP. He is the Director of the Political Economy of Sustainable Development Lab (PESD), and Research Associate of the International Center of Research on the Environment and the Economy (ICRE8).