Michael Haliassos has held the Chair of Macroeconomics and Finance at the Goethe University Frankfurt since 2004. He is a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and of NETSPAR, founding director of the CEPR Network on Household Finance (2015- ), Research Professor and member of the Executive Board of the Institute for Monetary and Financial Stability, and advisor to the European Central Bank on the Eurozone Household Finances and Consumption Survey since its inception in 2006. He was a member of the National Council of Research and Technology of Greece (2010-13). Since 2023 he serves as Vice President of Komvos-Node: Networks of Global Hellenism. He received a B.A. with First Class Honors from Cambridge University in 1981 and a Ph.D. from Yale University in 1987 under the supervision of Nobel Laureates James Tobin and William Nordhaus. His research focuses on household finance, where he was among the pioneers. He recently coauthored the JEL article on Household Finance and received the 2021 Hillcrest Prize of the Review of Financial Studies for “Best Paper in Behavioral Finance”. In 2025, he was awarded the title of Founding Fellow of the Royal Economic Society.