Dr Theodore Koutmeridis is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, where he was an Onassis Scholar and a Royal Economic Society Junior Fellow.

His work on inequality, poverty and crime has earned various prizes, such as the Sir Alec Cairncross Prize in Economics and the 1st Prize in the European Science Days Interdisciplinary Award, and has featured widely, including his: TEDx talk on the “Underground Economy”, “Crime and Prices” video, and “Democracy Lab” teaching approach. He has received awards for research, teaching, impact and engagement. Among other outputs, his work has been published in the Review of Economic Studies, funded by a £700,000 ESRC–DFID grant, and produced a “REF impact case study” saving around £1 million per year for the NHS. He has contributed to various policy reports and is affiliated with the Institute of Labor Economics, the Advanced Research Centre and Scotland Beyond Net Zero. His work spans disciplinary, methodological and national boundaries, encompassing settings ranging from Indian schools to Polish prisons, research across the USA, the UK, Japan, India and Poland, and academic engagements in Prague, Warsaw and Columbia Universities.

He is the recipient of the British Academy Rising Star Award and the RSE Henry Duncan Medal, which according to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, he has been awarded “for his outstanding work in the field of economics where he combines a clear mastery of the microeconomic methodology, a keen instinct for its empirical applications and a deep commitment to engagement activities.”

Theo Koutmeridis joined IZA as an Research Affiliate in May 2018 and became a Research Fellow in November 2019.