John Tsoukalas

John Tsoukalas is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School (department of Economics), University of Glasgow. Previously, he has served as the Head of the Economics department and Vice Dean of the Adam Smith Business School. From 2020 he is serving as the Academic lead of the ESRC funded Productivity Institute, Scotland Forum. From 2024 he is the Chair of the Parliamentary Budget Office in the Hellenic Parliament, Greece's independent fiscal institution. He has served at the Bank of England as an economist in Monetary Analysis and a research fellow at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. He has also held a visiting professor appointment at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S.A. His research interests span macroeconomics and finance. His work has been published in academic journals such as the American Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Review of Finance, Journal of Money Credit and Banking among others He holds an undergraduate degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a PhD degree from the University of Maryland, USA.