Michael Chletsos

Biography

Michael Chletsos hold a Ph.D in Economics from the University of Picardie in France. He is Professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Ioannina. He has also taught at the University of Thessaly and at the University of Crete. He has served (2004 - 2008) as the Chairman and he is currently the Vice Chairman of the Department of Economics at the University of Ioannina. He is also the Director of the Graduate Program in Economics and Director of the Laboratory of Applied Economic and Social Policy.He was the Director of the Directorate of Research and Studies of the Employment Observatory Research Informatics S.A, Senior Researcher at the National Labour Institute and Researcher at the Centre of Planning and Economic Research. He joined the Graduate Program in Management of Health Services of the Greek Open University in 2000.

Research Interest

His research interests are: labour economics, public economics, health economics and economics of social protection, poverty and income inequalities. He participated in many national and international projects in the area of labour economics, economics of social policy and health economics. In the area of health economics he participated in the following projects : RT3S Micro – Health Economic Analysis, FP7, Report on the Application of DRGs in Greece”, financed by Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), “Analysis of the sources of revenues and developing mechanisms to monitor and control public expenditures”, financed by WHO in the context of the Health Reform Support Programme 2013 – 2015 and "Measuring Financial Protection in health: a new approach for the WHO European Region Monitoring progress towards universal health coverage: new evidence on financial protection in Greece" (together with Owen O' Donnell) financed by WHO. He published various articles in international referred journals and he is author of books in the area of health economics, economics of social policy, public economics and labour economics.