Deputy Head - Department of Economics, Policy and International Business, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester Metropolitan University
I completed my PhD thesis on European Monetary Unification in January 2008. Since then I have been researching on the topic of Euro-zone debt crisis, fiscal policy in monetary union and the effectiveness of European Central Bank policies. I was the Economics subject leader for Combined Honours from 2004-2011 and the first year tutor of the Economics Programme from 2011-2013. I am currently the third year tutor of the Economics Programme.
I have been involved in the delivery of a number of university courses ranging from Introductory/Advanced Macroeconomics to Economics of European Monetary Union. I have appear frequently on media to comment on the Greek debt crisis and the problems experiencing the Euro-zone. I am a member of the Economic and Social Development Cluster.
China's relationships with Greece and Italy are deepening – EU is reaping exactly what it sowed
Nov 19, 2019 02:46 am UTC| Insights & Views
The eurozone has emerged from its debt crisis of 2010-18 intact, but at a very high cost to the periphery. Greeces exit from its third bailout in August 2018, the swan song of the crisis, is perceived as successful only...
Greece exits its third bailout – but eurozone still has much to learn from the crisis
Aug 20, 2018 10:56 am UTC| Insights & Views
After nine years of unprecedented peacetime economic hardship, Greece exits its IMF bailout programme on August 20. So ends a series of three bailouts organised by the so-called troika of the IMF, European Central Bank and...
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