BIO | B. Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Institute, and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics and executive vice president emeritus at Bard College. He was Minister of Economy and Development for the Hellenic Republic from 2016 to 2018. He has testified on a number of occasions in hearings of Senate and House of Representatives Committees of the U.S. Congress, was vice-chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the U.S. Congress and was a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council's Subcouncil on Capital Allocation.