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Λουκάς Παπαδήμος | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Prime Minister of Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 11 November 2011 – 16 May 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Karolos Papoulias | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deputy | Theodoros Pangalos Evangelos Venizelos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | George Papandreou | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Panagiotis Pikrammenos | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Lucas Demetrios Papademos 11 October 1947 Athens, Greece | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Independent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Shanna Ingram | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Education | Massachusetts 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]