Peter Sanfey is Deputy Director for Country Economics and Policy within the Economics, Policy and Governance Department at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. He is currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics, and was previously a Senior Common Room member and SEESOX associate at St Antony’s College, Oxford University. Dr Sanfey graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1985 with a B.A. (first class honours) in Economics, and received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1992. He has published widely in academic journals on various topics, mainly covering transition economics, macroeconomics and labour economics. He has also co-authored two books: In Search of the Balkan Recovery (with Christopher Cviić), published in 2010 by C. Hurst & Co. publishers (UK) and Oxford University Press (US); and Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South East Europe (with Adam Bennett, Russell Kincaid and Max Watson), published in November 2015 by Palgrave Macmillan.