Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides
Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides is Professor of Economics at LSE and holder of the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2010, jointly with Peter Diamond from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dale Mortensen from Northwestern University for their work on the economics of unemployment, especially job flows and the effects of being out of work
Research Interests
Sir Christopher specialises in the economics of labour markets, economic growth and structural change, especially as they relate to obstacles to free-market clearing.
He has published extensively in academic journals, and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory is a standard reference in the academic literature on unemployment, which has influenced extensively labour market policies. He has received several prizes, awards and prestigious Academy fellowships for his work, including the Grand Cross of the Republic of Cyprus and a knighthood from the late Queen Elizabeth II.
In the last decade he has mainly worked on the employment implications of automation and artificial intelligence and on the emergence of China as a global economic power. He has recently been involved in the preparation of a Report on the development of the Greek economy, which bears his name, and through his position as Co-Chair of the Institute for the Future of Work in London he is actively involved in securing the conditions for the creation of good work in the age of automation.
Additional Information
Sir Christopher was awarded his PhD at LSE in 1973 and has been on the faculty since. He is also a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE and of the Centre for Economic Policy Research
He is an elected fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association and the Society of Labour Economists. He is also a member of Council of the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society and a former member of Council of the Royal Economic Society. In 2005 he was awarded the IZA Prize in Labour Economics (jointly with Dale Mortensen) for his work on unemployment and in 2008 he received the Republic of Cyprus “Aristeion” for the Arts, Literature and Science.
In 2009 he served as vice president of the European Economic Association, becoming president-elect in 2010 and president in 2011.