Vasilis I. Pesmazoglou

Vasilis Pesmazoglou, son of the politician Yiangos (Ioannis) Pesmazoglou (1918-2003), was born in Athens in 1952. He studied mathematics and economics in the USA (Yale University, BA) and in the UK (University of Bradford, M.Sc.). From 1981 to 1988, he worked as an executive at the European Commission (Directorate-General for External Trade Relations) in Brussels. He then completed a doctoral thesis on the EU's textile policy at Panteion University (1990) and taught political economy at the Department of Economics at the University of Crete between 1990-1993 and 1995-2007. Today, he is an assistant professor of economics of European integration at the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of the Peloponnese. He made his literary debut in 1992 with the narrative "1993" (Iridanos Publications). This was followed by the short story collection "Saint Valentine's" (Polis, 2002) and the novel "Blind System" (Polis, 2006).