Athanasios Orphanides

Athanasios Orphanides
Born (1962-03-22) 22 March 1962 (age 62)
Brno, Czechoslovakia
NationalityCyprus
Academic career
FieldMonetary economics
InstitutionMIT Sloan School of Management
Alma materMIT
InfluencesMilton Friedman
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Athanasios Orphanides (born 22 March 1962)[1] is a Cypriot economist who served as Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus between 3 May 2007 to 2 May 2012 and as a member of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank between 1 January 2008 and 2 May 2012.[2]

Prior to his appointment as governor, he served as senior adviser at the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System in the US, where he started his professional career as an economist in 1999.[3] While at the Federal Reserve he taught undergraduate and graduate courses in macroeconomics and monetary economics at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University.[3]

He holds undergraduate degrees in mathematics and economics as well as PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3]

On 29 April 2012 President Demetris Christofias announced that Panicos O. Demetriades would succeed Orphanides as governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus effective 3 May 2012.[4] Orphanides is a professor at [5]MIT Sloan School of Management.[6]

After his mandate as governor of the ECB, Orphanides has repeatedly criticized the ECB's reliance on private credit ratings agencies for accepting assets as eligible for the ECB's monetary refinancing operations.[7][8][9] In a September 2020 study co-authored with Yvan Lengwiler for the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Orphanides provided suggestions for the ECB's monetary policy strategy review.[10]

  1. ^ "FACTBOX-ECB Governing Council: Who's Who?". Reuters. 2 January 2009. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
  2. ^ "centralbank.gov.cy". Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 4 April 2012.
  3. ^ a b c "Athanasios Orphanides Biographical Note". Central Bank of Cyprus official web page. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011.
  4. ^ Pantelides, Poly (29 April 2012). "Central Bank Governor officially named". cyprus-mail. Archived from the original on 2 May 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2012. PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday appointed academic Panicos Demetriades as Cyprus' central bank governor and European Central Bank Governing Council member, succeeding Athanasios Orphanides. ... His five-year term starts on 3 May, a day after Orphanides' term expires.
  5. ^ "Athanasios Orphanides". 20 October 2023.
  6. ^ Gabi Thesing (31 July 2012). "Draghi Reshapes ECB Crisis Pragmatism as Trichet's Dogma Fades". Bloomberg. Retrieved 9 August 2012. said Orphanides, who will start teaching at the MIT Sloan School of Management in September.
  7. ^ Options for the ECB’s Monetary Policy Strategy Review europarl.europa.eu
  8. ^ Orphanides, Athanasios (9 March 2018). "Monetary policy and fiscal discipline: How the ECB planted the seeds of the euro area crisis". VoxEU.org. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  9. ^ Orphanides, Athanasios (20 November 2017). "ECB Monetary Policy and Euro Area Governance: Collateral Eligibility Criteria for Sovereign Debt". Rochester, NY. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3076184. S2CID 158703172. SSRN 3076184. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ Lengwiler, Y. and Orphanides, A., Options for the ECB’s Monetary Policy Strategy Review, Study for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Policy Department for Economic, Scientific and Quality of Life Policies, European Parliament, Luxembourg, 2020.