Dimitris Paitaridis is Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the Hellenic Army Academy. He studied at the Public Administration Department of the Panteion University (BA in Public Economics, 2003) and at the Economics Department of the University of Macedonia (MSc in Economics, 2005 and Ph.D. in Political Economy, 2012). At the past he participated at research programs and delivered courses at various BA and MSc degree programs. He has published articles in academic journals such as the “Review of Radical Political Economics”, “Review of Political Economy”, “Cambridge Journal of Economics” and “European Planning Studies”, chapters in collective volumes, and co-authored books. Furthermore he is reviewer at academic journals and publishing houses. Finally, he is secretary at the board of the Greek Association of Political Economy.