Lucas Papademos

Lucas Papademos
Λουκάς Παπαδήμος
Papademos in 2012
Prime Minister of Greece
In office
11 November 2011 – 16 May 2012
PresidentKarolos Papoulias
DeputyTheodoros Pangalos
Evangelos Venizelos
Preceded byGeorge Papandreou
Succeeded byPanagiotis Pikrammenos
Further offices held
Vice-President of the European Central Bank
In office
1 June 2002 – 31 May 2010
PresidentWim Duisenberg
Jean-Claude Trichet
Preceded byChristian Noyer
Succeeded byVítor Constâncio
Governor of the Bank of Greece
In office
26 October 1994 – 31 May 2002
DeputyPanagiotis Thomopoulos
Preceded byIoannis Boutos
Succeeded byNikolaos Garganas
President of the Academy of Athens
In office
12 January 2017 – 14 January 2018
Preceded byZanasis Valtinos
Succeeded byAntonios Kounadis
Personal details
Born
Lucas Demetrios Papademos

(1947-10-11) 11 October 1947 (age 77)
Athens, Greece
Political partyIndependent
SpouseShanna Ingram
EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology (BS, MSE, PhD)
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Lucas Demetrios Papademos (Greek: Λουκάς Παπαδήμος; born 11 October 1947) is a Greek economist and academic who served as 12th Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat,[1] he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002.

He was professor at Columbia University, the University of Athens, and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt.[2]

  1. ^ "A tale of two technocrats: paths diverge for Greece and Italy". Reuters. 2012-02-03. Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  2. ^ "Prof Lucas Papademos", Goethe University Frankfurt Retrieved 12 November 2011.