About the team

Dr. Stella Ladi

Dr. Stella Ladi is a reader at Queen Mary University of London and an assistant professor at Panteion University in Athens. She previously worked as a lecturer at University of Sheffield and University of Exeter. She has also been a research fellow at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies (IBEI). She has acted as a public policy expert at the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of the Aegean, Greece. In July 2002 she completed her PhD thesis at the University of York. Her research interests include the Eurozone crisis, public policy and public administration reforms, Europeanization, global governance, and the role of experts in public policy. She has published in journals such as Journal of European Integration, JCMS, Policy & Society, Regulation & Governance, Public Administration, West European Politics, New Political Economy, Comparative European Politics and Political Studies Review. She is the co-author of Capitalising on Constraint: Bailout Politics in Eurozone Countries, Manchester: Manchester University Press with Moury, C., Cardoso, D. and Gago, A.

Dr. Angelos Angelou

Dr. Angelos Angelou is a visiting fellow at the LSE’s European Institute and a teaching fellow at the University of Piraeus and at Neapolis University Pafos. He has also worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Global Policy Institute at Queen Mary University of London in the project ‘A global mapping of the use of expertise and evidence-informed policies in the management of the Covid-19 pandemic’. He obtained his PhD from the LSE’s European Institute in 2020. His thesis examined the European Commission's approach to sovereign debt restructuring during the early phases of the Eurozone crisis. His current research focuses on crisis-management by international and national public administrations, while he has also written on the political economy of reforms. Outside academia, Angelos has worked for the European External Action Service in the field of multilateral diplomacy.

Dr. Dimitra Panagiotatou

Dr. Dimitra Panagiotatou is a teaching fellow at the University of Piraeus. She has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Global Policy Institute at Queen Mary University of London, and at Panteion University in Athens. She received her PhD in 2020 from the School of Business and Management, at Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests include Europeanization, multi-level governance, EU Cohesion policy, public administration reforms and the role of experts in public policy. In addition to her academic experience, Dimitra has worked for different NGOs, as a blue book trainee at the European Commission (DG Regional and Urban Policy) and as a press and communication assistant at the European Parliament.