Platon Tinios

Platon Tinios, is an economist, associate professor at the University of Piraeus. He was educated in Egypt, Greece and the UK. He studied economics at the Universities of Cambridge (MA, Ph.D) and Oxford (M.Phil). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specializing in the economic analysis of social policy and pensions. He was a member of the EU Social Protection Committee and the EPC Ageing Working Group from 2000 to 2004. He has participated in IMF Technical Assistance missions in the areas of social expenditure and pensions. In 2015/6 he was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. His research interests include pensions, ageing, social policy, gender, economics of insurance and public finance. He has written numerous books and journal articles in English and in Greek.

Education

• 1975 – 1978, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Economics, Christ's College, Cambridge University, UK, (Master of Arts 1982).
• 1978 – 1980, Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University,UK.
• 1980 – 1984, Ph.D. in Economics, Christ's College, Cambridge University, UK
• Thesis Title: "Housing Demand and Taxation in Greece: An Econometric Analysis of the Household Expenditure Survey, 1974"

Selected Publications

• Tinios, P. (2005), ‘Pension Reform in Greece: ‘Reform by Instalments’ – A blocked process?’, West European Politics, Vol 28, pp 402-409 . Also in: Featherstone, K. (ed), 2006, Politics and Policy in Greece, London, Routledge
• Tinios, P. 2010, The pension problem: a method to decipher, Athens, Kritiki, (in Greek)
• Tinios, P, 2011, Accounting Standards as Catalysts for Pension Reform: Greek Pensions and the Public/Private Boundary, Journal of European Social Policy Volume 21 Issue 2, May 2011, pp164-177
• Lyberaki, A. Tinios, P, 2012, Labour and pensions in the Greek crisis: The Microfoundations of Disaster, Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft,( 60) 3 , pp 363‐386.
• Τinios, P and S. Poupakis, 2013, "Knowledge is power": Public attitudes and the stalling of pension reform in Greece, Journal of Population Ageing: Volume 6, Issue 4 (2013), Page 247-267.
• Lyberaki, A. & Tinios, P. (2012) “The crisis as handmaiden of social change: adjusting to the 21st century or settling old scores?” in Anastasakis, O. & Singh, D. (eds) Reforming Greece: Sisyphean task or Herculean challenge?, South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, pp. 65-70, http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/seesox/publications/ReformingGreece3.pdf

Undergraduate Teaching

• Macroeconomics (1st year)
• Social Insurance (2nd year)
• Insurance Economics (3rd Year)
• Ageing Economics (4th Year)

Graduate Teaching

• Pension schemes and social insurance

Research interests

• Social insurance
• Social policy
• Ageing Economics
• Gender Economics
• The development of the Greek Economy

Research networks

• Country Expert for Greece for the European Network of Experts on Gender Equality (ENEGE), coordinated by the Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini February 2015-.
• 2020- Director of the Piraeus Statistics Department Risk Management Laboratory
• 2017- 2018 Participation in ESRC Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) project, ‘Dynamics of Gender and Social Inequality: The Middle East, North Africa, Southern Europe, and South Asia
• 2012-3 Participation in Technical Assistance mission of the International Monetary Fund (Fiscal Affairs Department) to Portugal (social expenditure appraisal) and to Cyprus (Short term expenditure policy review).
• 2012- Member of the EU Experts Network on Gender Equality (ENEGE)

Recent Research Projects

• Pariticipation in SHARE-COVID19, a Horizon2020 project 2020-2024.
• Consultant on World Bank project «Τhe reform of Social Care Services in Greece’
• Francesca Bettio, Platon Tinios and Thomas Georgiadis, July 2018, Future Risks for Gender Inequality in Old Age Income Security, Report Prepared for DG-Justice and Consumers, SAAGE
• Participation in SPRINT Project (Social Protection Innovative Investment in Long-Term Care), Horizon 2020 agreement no 649565, June 2015- December 2018
• National Bank of Greece Research Award on ‘Gender and the Crisis in Greece’, European Institute, London School of Economics, October 2014 for research to take place within 2015 (with Prof. Antigone Lyberaki).”.
• EU Task Force for Greece, “Report on the Greek pensions system: identification of shortcomings and proposition of solutions for the establishment of an improved, sustainable and economically-sound pension Structure’. August2014 -May 2015.