Christos Makridis

Christos Makridis serves as an Associate Research Professor at the W. P. Carey School of Business and Research Affiliate at the Global Security Initiative (both in Arizona State University), an Associate Faculty at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, a Digital Fellow at the Digital Economy Lab in Stanford University, a Non-resident Fellow at the Institute for Religious Studies at Baylor University, Visiting Faculty at University of Nicosia. He is the CEO/founder of Dainamic, which builds data science based software to help companies manage risk, and COO/co-founder of Living Opera, which builds classical music multimedia and provides educational resources to empower performing artists. Christos previously served on the White House Council of Economic Advisers managing the cybersecurity, technology, and space activities, as a Non-resident Fellow at the Cyber Security Project in the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, as a Digital Fellow at the Initiative at the Digital Economy in the MIT Sloan School of Management, a a Non-resident Research Scientist at Datacamp, as a Visiting Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, an Adjunct Associate Research Scholar at the Chazen Institute in Columbia Business School, and for years as a Senior Adviser with Gallup. Christos’ primary academic research focuses on labor economics, the digital economy, and personal finance and well-being, publishing over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles. He also writes frequently for syndicated outlets in the press and serves on the Council of Advisers for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. Christos earned a Bachelor’s in Economics and Minor in Mathematics at Arizona State University, as well as dual Masters and PhDs in Economics and Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University.