Domna Michailidou


Domna Maria Michailidou is a Greek academic who is serving as Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs. She is responsible for social welfare and social solidarity.

Biography

Michailidou is an academic economist working on economic development, financial crises and public finances. She was previously Reforms’ Adviser to the leader of the New Democracy Party in Greece, where she advised Kyriakos Mitsotakis on issues related to structural reforms, macroeconomic growth and financial markets.
Since 2014, Michailidou has also been a lecturer in the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge where she teaches topics related to finance and development, private and public debt and government regulation. She has worked for the OECD in Paris and Athens as an economist and a competition expert. Michailidou has also taught at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge and University College London’s School of Public Policy. She has advised governmental and non-governmental institutions such as the UNDP, the FAO, the British Council, the Ministry of Health in Iran and others.
Her book, The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets, was published by Palgrave MacMillan in 2016. Her work has also appeared in academic journals, institutional reports and the popular press. She holds an MPhil and a PhD in Financial and Development Economics from the University of Cambridge.

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