On June 8, 2011, Cyprus issued a commemorative postage stamp honoring Christopher Pissarides, the British-Cypriot economist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Dale Mortensen and Peter A. Diamond, in 2010 for his contributions to the theory of search frictions and macroeconomics.

Pissarides was born in Cyprus (into a Greek-Cypriot family) in the village of Agros. He received his B.A. in Economics in 1970 and his M.A. in Economics in 1971 at the University of Essex. He subsequently enrolled in the London School of Economics, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1973. He presently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the Economics Department and is Director of the Research Programme on Macroeconomics at the Centre for Economic Performance, both at the London School of Economics (where he has been since 1976).

The commemorative stamp was also issued as a souvenir sheet of six postage stamps (pictured above) and on an official first day cover. All are available from Stamps and Philatelic Services, Cyprus Post.

A ceremony was held at the office of the Director of Cyprus Post with the General Director of the Ministry of Communications and Works Makis Constantinides, where Pissarides was presented with the published commemorative series.

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