Harris Dellas is Professor and holds the Chair of Macroeconomics at the University of Bern. He previously taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, University of Maryland and Vanderbilt University and was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the Athens University of Economic and Business (AUEB). He is a Research Fellow of CEPR and a research consultant to several central banks. His research centers on international macroeconomics and monetary theory and it has appeared in the leading journals in economics.   He received his BA from AUEB and PhD (1985) from the University of Rochester.