Dermot Hodson has a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Trinity College, Dublin, an MSc in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe, Bruges and a PhD in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. He previously worked as an economist at the European Commission's Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs, where he worked on issues relating to Economic and Monetary Union and the governance of the euro area. He has taught at the London School of Economics, London South Bank University and London Metropolitan University. He is Lecturer in Political Economy, Birkbeck College, University of London.