Nicholas Vonortas

Nick Vonortas is Professor of Economics and International Affairs at The George Washington University. He currently is Associate Dean for Research Initiatives at the Elliott School of International Affairs and Director of the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy.

Professor Vonortas holds concurrently a ‘São Paulo Excellence Chair’ in Technology and Innovation Policy at the University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2010, he has been editor of the peer-reviewed journal Science and Public Policy.

Professor Vonortas’ teaching and research interests are in industrial organization, in the economics of technological change, and in technology and innovation policy and strategy. He has authored and co-edited twelve (12) books. His latest is titled Intangible Assets, Productivity and Economic Growth: Micro, Meso and Macro Perspectives (2024). In addition, he has authored or co-authored ninety-nine (99) papers in academic journals, fifty-two (52) book chapters, co-edited ten (10) special issues in academic journals, published twelve (12) papers in conference proceedings, and co-authored fifty-nine (59) reports. As of July 1, 2025 he was ranked on Google Scholar with 13,570 citations, h-index 51, and i10-index 130.

Professor Vonortas has held visiting appointments at several universities including the Tsinghua University (China), Korea University (Republic of Korea), University of Lund (Sweden), Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), University of Campinas (Brazil), National Research University Higher School of Economics (Russian Federation), the University of Maastricht (Netherlands), Luigi Bocconi University (Italy), Athens University of Economics and Business (Greece), and National Technical University of Athens (Greece).

He holds a Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Economics from New York University (USA), a MA in Economic Development from Leicester University (UK), and a BA in Economics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece).