Dimitri B. Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College (USA), and executive vice president and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics at Bard. He was a distinguished scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, has testified in hearings of Senate and House of Representatives Committees of the U.S. Congress, was vice-chairman of the Trade Deficit Review Commission of the U.S. Congress, and was a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council's Subcouncil on Capital Allocation.

His research includes financial structure reform, fiscal and monetary policy, community development banking, employment policy, and distribution of income, wealth, and well-being. He is author or coauthor of numerous articles relating to Federal Reserve policy, fiscal policy, financial structure and stability, employment growth, and Social Security reform, and an editor or contributor to many books published by Palgrave Macmillan, Edward Elgar, and McGraw-Hill. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Analysis, Challenge, and the Bulletin of Political Economy. Most recently, he is co-author/editor of The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky.