Vassilis Tselios is Professor of Regional Analysis and Policy at the Department of Economic and Regional Development of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He holds a Diploma and an MSc at the Department of Regional Planning and Development of the University of Thessaly and a PhD at the London School of Economics (LSE). He was an Assistant and Associate Professor of Regional Economics at the University of Thessaly, a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, a Lecturer in Economic Geography at the University of Southampton and at Newcastle University, a Researcher at the LSE and at the University of Groningen, and a Consultant at the World Bank. His research concerns regional development and growth, public and regional policy, economic geography, political decentralisation, socioeconomic inequalities, social welfare, and natural and technological disasters. He has produced a series of academic papers in top scientific journals.