Prof Christopher Pissarides is the 2010 Nobel laureate for Economics. He was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for his “analysis of markets with search frictions”, together with Professors Peter Diamond of MIT and Dale Mortensen of Northwestern. He is currently the School Professor of Economics and Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the Marfin-Laiki Chair in European Studies at the University of Cyprus.

　　Prof Pissarides specializes in the economics of unemployment, labor-market theory, labor-market policy and more recently he has written about growth and structural change. He has written extensively in professional journals and his book Equilibrium Unemployment Theory, now in its second edition, is a standard reference in the economics of unemployment.