Peter Sanfey

Peter Sanfey

Deputy Director, Head of Country Economics

EBRD, United Kingdom

Dr Peter Sanfey is currently Deputy Director, Head of Country Economics within the Policy Strategy and Delivery Department at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London. Between 2017 and 2020 he was also a senior visiting fellow at the LSEE Research on South Eastern Europe group within the European Institute, London School of Economics. He holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College Dublin and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University. He was a lecturer in economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury prior to joining the EBRD.  Dr Sanfey has published widely in academic journals and edited volumes on various topics, mainly covering transition economics, macroeconomics, labour economics, and subjective measures of well-being. For more than three decades he has analysed economic developments and reforms in south-eastern Europe. He has co-authored numerous books, journal articles and book chapters on this region, including: In Search of the Balkan Recovery (with Christopher Cviić), Oxford University Press, 2010;Economic and Policy Foundations for Growth in South East Europe (with Adam Bennett, Russell Kincaid and Max Watson), Palgrave Macmillan, 2015;The Western Balkans in Transition: Diagnosing the Constraints on the Path to a Sustainable Market Economy (with Jakov Milatović), EBRD, 2018;and Defining a New Reform Agenda: Paths to Sustainable Convergence in South East Europe (co-edited with Othon Anastasakis and Max Watson), South East European Studies at Oxford, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, 2013. His recent research focuses on post-crisis recovery and challenges in Greece and includes papers (co-authored with EBRD colleagues) on Greece’s post-crisis recovery and digital transformation.