Platon Tinios, is an economist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Piraeus. He was educated in Egypt, Greece and the UK. He studied economics at the Universities of Cambridge (MA, Ph.D) and Oxford (M.Phil). He served as Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Greece from 1996 to 2004, specializing in the economic analysis of social policy and pensions. He has participated as an expert on pensions and social policy for the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the European Union. He is currently Advisor on insurance at the Bank of Greece. His research interests include pensions, ageing, longevity, social policy, gender, economics of insurance and public finance.
