Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides, Nobel Prize in Economics, 2010

Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides Χριστόφορος Αντωνίου Πισσαρίδης, FBA (born 20 February 1948) is a Greek Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics.

Awards and honours

• Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1997
• Fellow of the British Academy, 2002
• Fellow of the European Economic Association, 2005
• IZA Prize in Labor Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen, 2005
• Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, 2011
• Vice-President of the European Economic Association – President in 2011
• Nobel Prize in Economics in 2010, The College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin awarded Pissarides its Gold Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Public Discourse in 2012 Member of the Academy of Athens, 2015 Pissarides was knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to economics.