Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides (; ; born 20 February 1948) is a British-Cypriot economist.
He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus.
In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, "for their analysis of markets with theory of search frictions."
Early life
Pisaridis is a Greek Orthodox. He was born in Nicosia, Cyprus.
He received his BA in Economics in 1970 and MA in Economics in 1971 from the University of Essex. He later enrolled at the London School of Economics, where he obtained a doctorate in economics in 1973 for a thesis entitled "Individual Behavior in Markets with Imperfect Information".