Mr. Christos Papadas is a graduate of the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), holder of a postgraduate degree (M.Sc.) and a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Agricultural and Applied Economics, which he received from the Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota (USA). He has worked as a researcher at the University of Minnesota. He has taught at Queen’s University in Northern Ireland as a full faculty member in the Department of Agricultural Economics, in undergraduate and postgraduate courses and programs.

His works have been published in international scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences. Mr. Papadas teaches (co-teaching) the undergraduate, compulsory courses “Agricultural Product Price Analysis” (8th semester), “Rural Development Theory and Policy” (9th semester) and the postgraduate courses “Applied Microeconomics” and "Agro-Economics in Of agricultural development".

His research interests are in the areas of development economics, rural development, input-output analysis, and the application of new quantitative methods to investigate the impact of economic policies on rural development, economic convergence, and income distribution.