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Dimitri B. Papadimitriou is president of the Levy Economics Institute, Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, and executive vice president emeritus of Bard College. He has been a member of the Bard faculty since 1977.

Papadimitriou is the author or coauthor of academic articles relating to Federal Reserve policy, fiscal policy, financial stability, employment growth, and Social Security reform. He has provided expert testimony before U.S. Senate and House committees, is a former vice-chair of the Trade Deficit Review Commission (1999–2001), and was a member of the Competitiveness Policy Council's Subcouncil on Capital Allocation from 1993 to 1998. He served as Minister of Economy and Development for the Hellenic Republic from 2016 to 2018. Papadimitriou was a distinguished scholar at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (PRC) in fall 2002. He has edited and contributed to 13 books published by Palgrave Macmillan, Edward Elgar, and McGraw-Hill, and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Analysis, Challenge, and the Bulletin of Political Economy. In addition, he has served as executive vice president of Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Great Barrington, Massachusetts, since 1979; as managing director of Bard College Berlin, Germany (2011–15); and as trustee and treasurer (1992–2013) and chairman (2013– ) of the American Symphony Orchestra. He was a member of the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1975 to 1976. He is a graduate of Columbia University and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the New School.