A native of Greece, Nikolaos Zahariadis is the Mertie Buckman Chair and Professor of International Studies at Rhodes College. He has previously taught at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and the State University of New York-New Paltz and has received numerous awards for his work including a Fulbright fellowship, a Fulbright Specialist fellowship, a Policy Studies Organization fellowship, a National Bank of Greece Senior Researcher fellowship, and an Economic and Social Research Council fellowship. He has published widely on issues of comparative public policy and European political economy. His latest edited volumes, Handbook of Public Policy Agenda Setting (2016) and The Routledge Handbook of European Public Policy (with Laurie Buonanno, 2018), were published by Edward Elgar and Routledge respectively.