Gikas Hardouvelis

Gikas A. Hardouvelis
Γκίκας A. Χαρδούβελης
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece
Assumed office
30 July 2021
Preceded byKonstantinos Michailidis
Minister of Finance
In office
10 June 2014 – 27 January 2015
Prime MinisterAntonis Samaras
Preceded byYannis Stournaras
Succeeded byYanis Varoufakis
Personal details
Born (1955-10-08) 8 October 1955 (age 69)
Poulithra, Greece
Political partyIndependent
Alma materHarvard University (BS, MS)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Gikas A. Hardouvelis[1] (born October 8, 1955) is a Greek economist and former senior government official serving as chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece (NBG).[2][3] He was the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic from June 2014 to January 2015.[4][5]

Hardouvelis is professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus.[6]

Hardouvelis has a lengthy and broad career in four separate areas: Academia in the United States and Greece, central banking at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Bank of Greece, banking in two Greek systemic banks, and government, having worked closely as an expert technocrat with three different prime ministers from across the political spectrum.

Currently he is also active in several non-profit organizations in Greece. He is the President of MIET, a Greek cultural foundation for the support of the humanities, fine arts, and sciences.[7] He is a Trustee of Anatolia College, a non-profit primary, secondary and tertiary private educational institution.[8] He is also the First Vice Chairman of the board of directors and member of the executive committee of the Foundation for Economic & Industrial Research, a non-profit research institute.[9]

  1. ^ "Gikas A. Hardouvelis CV". Gikas Hardouvelis' personal website. www.hardouvelis.gr.
  2. ^ "NBG Management & Organizational Structure".
  3. ^ "Hardouvelis picked by NBG's board for post of president". 6 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Greek PM appoints economist Hardouvelis as new finance minister".
  5. ^ "Greece's PM Samaras Names Hardouvelis New Greek Finance Minister". Bloomberg. 10 June 2014.
  6. ^ "Gikas A. Hardouvelis". Department of Banking and Financial Management, University of Piraeus, Greece. 10 October 2017.
  7. ^ "MIET, Management, Board of Directors".
  8. ^ "Anatolia, Governance, Trustee Directory".
  9. ^ "IOBE, Board of Directors".