Professor John Tsoukalas is the Head of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School where he looks after 50 academic staff. He holds a BSc in Economics from the Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. He joined the School in 2011 from the University of Nottingham where he spent five years. He has served as an Economist at the Bank of England from 2003 to 2006 in the Monetary Analysis division where he was in charge with advising the monetary policy committee about real investment developments in the UK economy. He has held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Hong Kong Monetary Authority. His research interests and publications are in macroeconomics, political economy, financial and investment cycles, financial regulation and the European debt crisis.