Christos Cabolis is Adjunct Professor of Economics and Competitiveness at IMD. For more than a decade he was Chief Economist and Head of Operations at the IMD World Competitiveness Center, leading the design and dissemination of some of the most closely watched economic benchmarks including the IMD Smart City Index. He also taught at Yale University, UC Santa Barbara, and UNC's Kenan-Flagler Business School. In Greece, he was Associate Professor at ALBA Graduate Business School. Christos holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.