Christos A. Makridis holds academic
appointments at Columbia Business
School, Stanford University, Baylor
University, University of Nicosia, and
Arizona State University. He is also
an adjunct scholar at the Manhattan
Institute, senior adviser at Gallup,
and senior adviser at the National AI
Institute in the Department of
Veterans Affairs. Christos is the
CEO/co-founder of
[Dainamic](https://www.dainamic.ai/),
a technology startup working to
democratize the use and application of
data science and AI techniques for
small and mid sized organizations, and
CTO/co-founder of [Living
Opera](https://www.livingopera.org/),
a web3 startup working to bridge
classical music and blockchain
technologies. Christos previously
served on the White House Council of
Economic Advisers managing the
cybersecurity, technology, and space
activities, as a Non-resident Fellow
at the Cyber Security Project in the
Harvard Kennedy School of Government,
as a Digital Fellow at the Initiative
at the Digital Economy in the MIT
Sloan School of Management, a a
Non-resident Research Scientist at
Datacamp, and as a Visiting Fellow at
the Foundation for Defense of
Democracies. Christos’ primary
academic research focuses on labor
economics, the digital economy, and
personal finance and well-being. He
has published over 70 peer-reviewed
research papers in academic journals
and over 170 news articles in the
press. Christos earned a Bachelor’s in
Economics and Minor in Mathematics at
Arizona State University, as well a
dual Masters and PhDs in Economics and
Management Science & Engineering
at Stanford University.