Costas Lapavitsas (Greek: Kώστας Λαπαβίτσας; born January 20, 1961) is a professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London and was elected as a member of the Hellenic Parliament for the left-wing Syriza party in the January 2015 general election.

Since 1999, he has taught Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, first as a lecturer and since 2008 as a professor.

As early as 2011, Lapavitsas, together with some other Greek economists, has been highly eurosceptic, advocating for Greece abandoning the euro and returning to its former national currency (the drachma) as a response to the Greek government-debt crisis.

[5] On 2 March 2015, Lapavitsas wrote in The Guardian that releasing Greek people from austerity and simultaneously avoiding a major falling-out with the eurozone is an impossible task for the new government of Greece.

It would give a boost to the kind of thinking that would be necessary in the rest of Europe that is so sadly lacking at the moment.