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Alumni in Action: Dr. Anthony Bartzokas

Alumni in Action: Dr. Anthony Bartzokas

Alumni in Action: Dr. Anthony Bartzokas (Photo Courtesy Dr. Anthony Bartzokas)

Alumni in Action: Dr. Anthony Bartzokas (Photo Courtesy Dr. Anthony Bartzokas)

 

Over the last 64 years, thousands of Greek and U.S. citizens have travelled on exchange programs sponsored by the Department of State.  Every month we highlight alumni of these programs in our feature “Alumni in Action.”
This month we feature Professor Anthony Bartzokas; an economist by training with a PhD in Economics of Technological Change.  Dr Bartzokas is a Professorial Fellow at Athens University and at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht. Dr. Bartzokas has coordinated many international projects and he has advised various United Nations Agencies and Governments in Europe and in the Developing World. For the academic year 2009-2010, Dr. Bartzokas was on a Fulbright sabbatical at MIT and Tufts University and until December 2011, he was the principal scientific advisor at the Greek Ministry of Development and Competitiveness.  Since January, he serves as a Board Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In his own words:
AB: “I was a Fulbright alumnus at MIT and Tufts University during 2009/10 for a desk research project and covered three areas.  First, I continued my work on food markets volatility and adjustment priorities for least developed countries. The US administration had unique micro level information on country level experience, and colleagues at Tufts had been working on these issues for quite some time. Second, I had the opportunity to develop further a new line of research on capital markets and innovation dynamics. To this end, MIT was a valuable source of data and contacts. Third, I had the opportunity to take some distance from other commitments in order to design a graduate course for our PhD program at the University of Athens. Cambridge was the best place to be for that.
My scholarship was brief but very useful in terms of research insights and background work for my research projects. Among other things, I had the opportunity to observe the internal dynamics of research universities, the valuable networking effects of research talent in Boston and the open mined results oriented attitude of the academic community.
We have a very fond family memory. Our daughter is a fresher at Imperial College studying Civil Engineering. When I look back, I think that it all started in Cambridge, when she joined for two weeks the TOPS Physics Workshop at MIT.”
And on his current role as a Board Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD): 
AB: “EBRD is an international development bank with operations in 33 countries from central Europe to central Asia and north Africa financing private sector projects that are both commercially viable and assist business sector development towards the transition to the market economy.  As a resident Board Member I am involved in the supervision of banking operations and in the formulation of strategic priorities. For a development economist, the business model of the EBRD is a pleasant surprise which its emphasis on the quality of market institutions and investment driven economic restructuring.” 

Over the last 64 years, thousands of Greek and U.S. citizens have travelled on exchange programs sponsored by the Department of State.  Every month we highlight alumni of these programs in our feature “Alumni in Action.”

 This month we feature Professor Anthony Bartzokas; an economist by training with a PhD in Economics of Technological Change.  Dr Bartzokas is a Professorial Fellow at Athens University and at UNU-MERIT in Maastricht. Dr. Bartzokas has coordinated many international projects and he has advised various United Nations Agencies and Governments in Europe and in the Developing World. For the academic year 2009-2010, Dr. Bartzokas was on a Fulbright sabbatical at MIT and Tufts University and until December 2011, he was the principal scientific advisor at the Greek Ministry of Development and Competitiveness.  Since January, he serves as a Board Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

In his own words:

AB: “I was a Fulbright alumnus at MIT and Tufts University during 2009/10 for a desk research project and covered three areas.  First, I continued my work on food markets volatility and adjustment prioritiesfor least developed countries. The US administration had unique micro level information on country level experience, and colleagues at Tufts had been working on these issues for quite some time. Second, I had the opportunity to develop further a new line of research on capital markets and innovation dynamics. To this end, MIT was a valuable source of dataand contacts.

Third, I had the opportunity to take some distance from other commitments in order to design a graduate course for our PhD program at the University of Athens. Cambridge was the best place to be for that.My scholarship was brief but very useful in terms of research insights and background work for my research projects.

Among other things, I had the opportunity to observe the internal dynamics of research universities, the valuable networking effects of research talent in Boston and the open mined results oriented attitude of the academic community.We have a very fond family memory. Our daughter is a fresher at Imperial College studying Civil Engineering.

When I look back, I think that it all started in Cambridge, when she joined for two weeks the TOPS Physics Workshop at MIT.”And on his current role as a Board Alternate Director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development(EBRD): 

AB: “EBRD is an international development bank with operations in 33 countries from central Europe to central Asia and north Africa financing private sector projects that are both commercially viable and assist business sector development towards the transition to the marketeconomy.  As a resident Board Member I am involved in the supervisionof banking operations and in the formulation of strategic priorities. For a development economist, the business model of the EBRD is a pleasant surprise which its emphasis on the quality of market institutions and investment driven economic restructuring.”