Prof. Dr. Anthony Bartzokas




Professorial Fellow at UNU-MERIT, Visiting Professor in Practice at the LSE and Associate Professor at the University of Athens with extensive experience in academia, policy relevant research and development finance. He has worked on financial systems, corporate investment, and innovation dynamics combined with real-life exposure to investment decisions and financial markets during his tenure as executive board director at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

 Research interests

His current research focus is on finance and innovation and is motivated by the erosion and the differential impact of global public goods, the prominent role of financial structures in innovation dynamics, and the value added of policy relevant research for long term investment decisions.

At UNU-MERIT he is pursuing research on (a) the diffusion of financial innovations and development finance institutions, and (b) post COVID recovery and innovation financing. Also, he is actively involved in policy networking with the UN system, financial institutions and policy makers on Innovation and Finance for Sustainability in the framework of the Comprehensive Innovation agenda. 

His conviction is that the challenges arising from financial constraints and investment capacity gaps in “building back better” call for interdisciplinary research, capacity building and better integration between scholars of innovation, policy makers and the private sector. 




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