Welcome to Dimitri G Demekas Online, my personal website.

Its purpose is to provide access to my past and present research and professional activities. You will find information on and links to the International Monetary Fund, global financial sector issues, the Greek Presidency of the European Union during the first half of 2003, and other topics in which I have been professionally involved, notably the economics and politics of Southeastern Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and the Baltics.

The first-gen version of this site was built up in a hurry when I started running out of reprints of my old academic journal articles, as a way to stop making copies of copies to share with colleagues. That was in the last century. Soon I found out that it was also a handy way to give my CV and information about me to people who asked: business associates, counterparts, government officials, and journalists, especially in distant countries. And why not add a vanity page, with a few pictures of my daughters or of myself paragliding for friends and family? But when in 2004 a newspaper in Croatia published some pictures of my daughters, I decided that it was time to take this a little more seriously.

In addition to a few thousand visitors and enquiries about my research, this website has brought me some surprises:  fan mail (and some hate mail) from complete strangers; a distant cousin from an unknown--to me--branch of my family, who came across my site googling his name; an offer from an association of Greek resistance fighters in Athens during WWII to search their archives for more wartime photographs of my father; and an invitation to a high-school reunion from friends whose track I had lost about 25 years ago.

If you stay and browse, you will find pages with my curriculum vitae, academic and professional background, publications, and an anthology of relevant links and recent press coverage of my activities in different countries; a personal page with information on my family, hobbies, and interests, which is very much work in progress; and a way to contact me.

Thanks for visiting.