Apostolos Thomadakis

Dr. Apostolos Thomadakis (Senior Expert and Project Manager) is a Research Fellow and Head of the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit at CEPS. He is also Head of Research at the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI). Apostolos has (co)-authored studies and coordinated projects on issues related to capital markets, CMU, access to capital and SMEs financing, derivatives and CCPs, financial instruments, financial and securities regulation, and banking supervision. Prior to joining CEPS, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Bank of Lithuania and the Austrian National Bank, while he worked for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Central Bank (ECB). Apostolos has held academic positions at the University of Warwick, London School of Economics, the University of Bath, and the University of Surrey, where he taught courses on finance, derivatives, and econometrics. He holds a PhD in Economics and an MSc in Business Economics and Finance from the University of Surrey, and a BSc in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.