Professor Nick Drydakis

Since 2017, Nick Drydakis has been leading (i) the Economics of Inequality, Discrimination, Poverty, and Exploitation course and (ii) the Economics of Growth and Development course in the Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme. He supervises students’ research papers in the Pembroke Cambridge Summer Programme, Fall and Spring Semester Programmes and the Online Summer Research Programme.

He collaborates with the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge as an Academic Expert on labour economics, where he provides expert knowledge to Directors from Whitehall, local government and the European Commission. Specialising in labour economics, Nick Drydakis has worked in academia for 15 years, and he has published over 40 scientific publications on labour market phenomena. He works full time as a Professor in Economics at ARU, where he directs the Centre for Pluralist Economics. He is a Research Fellow in the IZA (Bonn), and Cluster Lead in the GLO (Essen). Nick Drydakis entered the 2014 and 2021 REF and he owns a 2021 REF Impact Case Study. He is an academic Editor at PLOS Global Public Health.