Takis S. Pappas (PhD Yale) is an author and Recurrent Visiting Professor at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. In the past, he has held teaching and research positions at the University of Macedonia, Greece, the European University Institute in Florence, Princeton University, Yale University, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Oslo, the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, and the University of Luxembourg.
 
He has authored Making Party Democracy in Greece (Macmillan 1999), The Charismatic Party: PASOK, Papandreou, Power (Patakis, 2009, in Greek), Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave 2014; also translated in Greek), and co-edited European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press, 2015). His latest book is On the Tightrope: National Crises and Brinkmanship in Greece from Trikoupis to Tsipras (Ikaros 2017). He is currently at work on a new book project about populism in world comparative perspective.