Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and the Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. He is also the distinguished Chairman of the Council of National Economy of the Republic of Cyprus. Although born in Nicosia, Cyprus, he is also a Briton. His contributions to the field of economics were on Macroeconomic search and matching theories of unemployment, matching function and structural growth.

Pissarides received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degreeboth in Economics at the University of Essex. He subsequently received his PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics for his thesis which he titled “Individual behavior in markets with imperfect information”.

In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen for their work on analysis of markets with theory of search frictions. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, British Academy, European Economic Association and many other notable societies.