Dimitri B. Papadimitriou

In 2019, Papadimitriou served as the Interim Provost of Bard College at Simon's Rock.

On 27 February 2018, Papadimitriou resigned from the Greek government citing "reasons of political sensitivity," following revelations that his wife, Rania Antonopoulos, Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity, who had also resigned the previous days, was the recipient of a state stipend for housing expenses.

From 5 November 2016 until February 2018, he was Greece's Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism in the government of Alexis Tsipras. He also served as Provost and Vice President of Bard College at Simon's Rock.

In November 2016, and taking a leave from Bard College for this reason, Papadimitriou was appointed Greece's Minister of Economy, Development and Tourism in the Syriza-led government of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. He repudiated his previous, alternative proposals for the Greek economy, stating, "Up to now, I was an academic and academics say a lot of things; now, I take up a new role."

Papadimitriou had been co-author of a study of the economy of Greece, published in 2014, where the following "policy options" were suggested: A significant, external, financial assistance to Greece through Marshall Plan–type capital transfers from the European Union; a temporary suspension of interest payments on the public debt of Greece; the use of those financial resources towards increasing demand and employment; the introduction of a parallel financial system based on new government bonds, the so-named "Geuros"; and the adoption of an employer-of-last-resort (ELR) program financed through that parallel financial system. The authors argued that their proposal "seems to provide the best strategy for a recovery, having immediate effects on Greek living standards, while [also] containing the effects on [the Greek] foreign debt.

Since 2009, he is a fellow of the Economists for Peace and Security organization.

Papadimitrious has served as Vice Chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the United States Congress for the period 1999-2001. He has provided testimony in Congress, as follows:

Papadimitriou is the President of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College since 1986.

In 1975/76, Papadimitriou has been Adjunct Professor on the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, He is the Executive Vice President Emeritus, and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, at Bard College since 1977. He is Distinguished Scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, in China since 2002.

He worked in the William Penn Life Insurance Company of New York, from 1969 until 1977, where he became Executive Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer of the company.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou (born 9 June 1946, in Thessaloniki) is a Greek-born American economist, author, and college professor. He is President, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College since its inception in 1986 and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics and Executive Vice President Emeritus, at Bard College since 1977.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou was born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1946. He received his BA from Columbia College, Columbia University, in 1969, and a PhD in Economics from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in 1986.