Academic Bio

21 April 2005 -

• Name:
  Andreas G. Papandreou

• Date of Birth:
  February 5, 1919

• Education:
  
  • 1937-40: University of Athens (Law School)
  • 1942: Harvard Univeristy (Master of Economics)
  • 1943: Harvard University (Doctor of Economics)

• Title of Doctoral Thesis:
  
  • "The scope and location of the entrepreneurial function"

• Fields of Specialization:
  
  • Economic theory and method
  • industrial organisation
  • theory and method of economic policy and planning
  • comperative economic systems
  • economic delopment

• Academic Posts:
  
  • 1942-43: Lecturer, Harvard University
  • 1943-44: Associate Professor, Harvard University
  • 1946-47: Associate Professor, Harvard University
  • 1947-50: Emeritus Professor, Univeristy Minnesota
  • 1950-51: Emeritus Professor, Northwestern University
  • 1951-55: Professor, University of Minnesota
  • 1955-63: Professor, University of California, (1956-59: Dean of the School of Economics)
  • 1968-69: Professor of Economics, University of Stockholm
  • 1969-74: Professor of Economics, York University - Canada (Director of Programme of Post-Graduate Studies of Economics)

• Political Activity:
  
  • 1964-67: Member of the Greek Parliament
  • 1964: Minister to the First Ministry of State
  • 1964-65: Alternative Minister of Co-ordination
  • 1968-74: Leader of PAK (Panhellenic Liberation Movement)
  • 1974: Leader of PA.SO.K. (Panhellenic Socialist Movement)
  • 1974: Member of the Greek Parliament

• Scholarships and Honorary Distinctions:
  
  • 1952-55: Bursary of the SSRC (Social Sciences Research Council)
  • 1959-60: Fullbright Scholarship
  • 1959-60: Guggenheim Scholarship
  • October 1966: Series of Wicksell Lectures, Stockholm
  • 1969: Series of Benjamin Fairless Lectures, Carnegie Mellon University
  • March 4, 1970: Lecture on Edmund Burke, Trinity College, Dublin
  • March 1973: Series of Woodward Lectures, University of British Columbia

• Dr. Honoris Causa Awards:
  
  • York University, Canada
  • Humboldt University, Berlin
  • University of Cracow, Poland
  • Moskow University, USSR
  • University of Bologna, Italy