Yannis Diakantonis

Yannis is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Academy Fellow in the Global Economy and Finance Programme at Chatham House. His research examines the future of digital money, focusing on opportunities for EU–UK cooperation on stablecoins, central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and tokenised money, and their implications for monetary sovereignty and financial competitiveness. His broader research interests include European fiscal capacity, common borrowing and capital-market integration, particularly their role in financing Europe’s economic and strategic priorities.

Previously, Yannis worked as a Financial Data Analyst at ABN AMRO Bank, contributing to regulatory reporting across resolution and statistical supervisory frameworks. He has also worked in commercial finance at Unilever and undertaken consulting work with PwC. As a Research Assistant at Erasmus School of Economics, he conducted empirical political economy and development research using large-scale data collection, dataset construction and econometric analysis.

Yannis holds an MSc in Global Governance and Diplomacy from the University of Oxford and a BSc in International Economics and Business Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.