Sofoklis Goulas is an Associate Research Scholar at Yale University’s MacMillan Center. He is also the co-founder and director of public-policy programs at the Aletheia Research Institution, a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting research on public interest topics and disseminating specialized knowledge to a broader audience. Previously, he was a Fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Researcher at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Earlier in his career he held research and consulting roles with the Center for Community Capital at UNC–Chapel Hill, the Bank of Greece, and the World Bank.

His expertise focuses on economics of education, public economics, and program and policy evaluation. Sofoklis has been the lead researcher on numerous impact evaluations of school choice and school improvement policies. He has engaged in education policy conversations with numerous departments of education and school districts across the US. He has served as an expert witness in education policy at the Senate and the House of Representative of State of Idaho. His research has appeared in academic outlets and policy reports and has received best paper awards. His work has repeatedly received wide media attention from both sides of the Atlantic and has moved the needle of policy across the US.

Sofoklis holds an M.Sc. in Finance and Economics from Warwick Business School in the UK, an MS and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The Fulbright fellowship, the UNC Impact Award for outstanding graduate research, and the Emerging Education Policy Scholarship at the American Enterprise Institute are among his varied honors and scholarships.