Professor of Finance (Imperial College London). From Bellapais & Alona. Cyprus.
London, England
Joined April 2013
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“I am an American Trojan. But what is America, really? America was built on ancient Greek ideals, and I am a citizen of a country founded on those principles. How fortunate I am!”
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Thatcher (1995): If countries were rich in proportion to their natural resources, Russia would be the richest country in the world.
It has oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, timber and great soil.
Yet it has been poor because it lacked an enterprise economy.
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Sikorski: There are rumors that some people expect frozen Russian assets to be released back to Russia.
I don't think I'm speaking just for myself in saying: “Over our dead bodies.” 1/
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Congrats to Anne Carson who has been awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature "for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature."
Carson taught at Princeton University in the 1980s and was recently on campus to deliver the 2025 Fagles Lecture. Her presentation, titled "Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind," mixed memoir, classical translation, art criticism, boxing exhibition, and performance art in a personal meditation on life and death in the wake of her diagnosis with Parkinson's disease.
Like previous Fagles Lecturers, Carson taught a special session of the undergraduate Humanities Sequence course "Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture," whose students read Carson's Sappho translations, If Not, Winter (2002) as part of their syllabus. Carson's lesson plan involved dividing class attendees into small groups of three or four and asking them to leave the classroom for ten minutes spent in search of a "border," physical or otherwise, they could then "redefine."
Read more about her recent visit: bit.ly/4hShDyQ
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ALT Anne Carson reading to the audience
ALT Anne Carson putting on boxing gloves as part of her presentaiton
ALT Anne Carson wearing boxing gloves
Alex Michaelides/Αλέξανδρος Μιχαηλίδης retweeted
The 2021 winner of the Magnitsky Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalist is Catherine Belton. She has exposed the crimes of the Putin regime in ways that nobody has ever done before. She’s now paid a very dear price in their retaliation with multiple abusive libel suits
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How can mediators make peace processes more inclusive?
Inviting citizens into the room is only a start. Mediators also need to understand what communities value, fear and might accept in a peace settlement. Our new piece with @CharisPsaltis and @MeltemSamani explores how AI-supported Remesh conversations can help:
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Στη Sequoia Capital συνάντησα κορυφαίους επενδυτές, ερευνητές από μεγάλες εταιρείες τεχνολογίας και ερευνητικά εργαστήρια, καθώς και ιδρυτές και στελέχη εταιρειών που βρίσκονται στην αιχμή της εφαρμογής της τεχνητής νοημοσύνης σε τομείς όπως η ιατρική, η εκπαίδευση, η αυτοματοποίηση και η ρομποτική. primeminister.gr/2026/09/21/…
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Nobel Peace Prize-winning Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov speaks out about a Russian plot to kill Americans on U.S. soil, the oligarch who paid for Donald Trump Jr.’s wedding party, and the plight of political prisoners in Russia.
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Delighted to welcome Prof. George M. Constantinides to meet the 2026 George M. Constantinides PhD Award recipients: Christos Statheas, Elia Antoniou & Paris Trokkos. Congratulations to all three award recipients!
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Putin didn't invade Ukraine because of NATO. He invaded because Ukrainians were proving democracy works.
Historian and Pulitzer Prize winner Anne Applebaum puts it plainly: Putin looked at Ukraine's democratic movement and thought, "If they can do it in Ukraine, then people could do it in Russia. So I need to crush this."
That's the real threat Ukraine posed. Not missiles. Not borders. A working democracy next door.
Applebaum frames the war as a fault line between the democratic and autocratic worlds. Russia isn't just trying to take territory. It's trying to erase Ukraine as a nation, reduce it to a colony, and send a message to every country that the post-1945 rules of Europe no longer apply.
Those rules were simple: no invasions, no wars, borders don't change by force. Russia understood exactly what it was breaking when it crossed into Ukraine.
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I don’t know what warped logic drove Putin to blow up a stationary Ukrainian locomotive on the Polish border this morning. What we can say for sure is that this is the kind of random and senseless attack Ukrainians are enduring every day - even on civilian railways. So far Putin has been responsible for the deaths of 1700 staff of Ukrzaliznytsia - Ukrainian Railways. They and their daily passengers are absolutely heroic.
When are we going to give them the air defences they need? Why won’t we unfreeze Putin’s cash and give it to Ukraine? There is more than €140 billion in a Belgian bank account - and about £10 billion in London. Britain could show a lead.
The Ukrainians are going to win - that much was clear from the last three days in their wonderful country. But we will get this dreadful war over much faster if we all get serious and give them what they need and deserve.
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Οταν η γνώση εκφράζεται ελεύθερα, χωρίς να λαμβάνει υπ όψην τις προεκλογικές σκοπιμότητες!
Μια μεταρρύθμιση πρέπει να λαμβάνει υπ όψην τις επόμενες και τωρινές γενιές και όχι τις επόμενες εκλογές.
"...η συνταξιοδοτική μεταρρύθμιση επιβάλλεται να σχεδιαστεί με ορίζοντα δεκαετιών και όχι των Προεδρικών Εκλογών του 2028...θα επηρεάσει την πολιτική υστεροφημία κυβέρνησης και Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων.
Κριτής όλων μας η ιστορία, και τα παιδιά μας."
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Alex Michaelides/Αλέξανδρος Μιχαηλίδης retweeted
"...η συνταξιοδοτική μεταρρύθμιση επιβάλλεται να σχεδιαστεί με ορίζοντα δεκαετιών και όχι των Προεδρικών Εκλογών του 2028...θα επηρεάσει την πολιτική υστεροφημία κυβέρνησης και Βουλής των Αντιπροσώπων.
Κριτής όλων μας η ιστορία, και τα παιδιά μας."
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Exclusive: China feared to be spying on RAF from five-star hotel telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/08…
Alex Michaelides/Αλέξανδρος Μιχαηλίδης retweeted
Ένα βίντεο από τη Deniz @deniz1inci ακτιβίστρια για επανένωση της Κύπρου ,που ανοίγει σκέψεις και τα συναισθήματα της
Αξίζει να το δούμε,χωρίς να συμφωνούμε σε όλα,αλλά έχει δίκαιο ότι σύντομα δεν θα υπάρχουν Τ/Κ για να συνεννοηθούμε αλλά έποικοι 🤔
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Καθαρές επειδή τα δείγματα και τις αναλύσεις τις κάνουν το Φεβράρη πριν την καλοκαιρινή σαιζόν τα σκάφη, το τουρισμό κλπ
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Ντρέπεται κανείς ; politis.com.cy/cyprus/periva…
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The principal Russian war aim, after all, is to make sure that there is no longer a separate Ukraine, and therefore no Ukrainian culture, language or books.
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Ukraine’s ex-president Yushchenko: There's a 19th-century painting, 'The Sale of Ukrainians,' a family traded for two dogs. It's 165 years since Russia banned that trade.
I don't think any other people in the empire were sold that way as often as Ukrainians. 1/
