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Gikas \u0391. Hardouvelis<\/strong> <\/p>\n Prof. Gikas A. Hardouvelis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece since July 2021. In the previous two years, he was already a member of the Board of NBG, serving as the Senior Independent Director. \u0397e is also Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece, First Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors and Member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research, Member of the Board of Trustees of Anatolia College, and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Prof. Hardouvelis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1985), as well as a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University (1978). He has taught at Columbia and Rutgers Universities and his academic work has been published in prestigious top-ranking academic journals. <\/p>\n In the private financial sector, he held key managerial positions at the National Bank of Greece (1996-2004) and Eurobank (2005-2014). He was a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Derivatives Exchange (1997-2000), presently merged with the Athens Stock Exchange. He has also been a member of the Academic Council of the Hellenic Bank Association (HBA), its President and the HBA EBF-EMAC (European Banking Federation -Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee) representative.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His long standing academic and banking career was also accompanied by intermissions for public sector service in senior government positions. He served as the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic from June 2014 to January 2015. Prior to being Minister of Finance, Hardouvelis had already served twice as the Director of the Economic Office of the Greek Prime Minister during May 2000 – March 2004 and November 2011 – May 2012.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gikas \u0391. Hardouvelis Chairman of the Board of Directors National Bank of Greece Prof. Gikas A. Hardouvelis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece since July 2021. In the previous two years, he was already a member…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100852","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nProf. Hardouvelis served as a Research Adviser & Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1987-1993) and as an Adviser to the Bank of Greece (1994-1995), where he also acted as an Alternate to the Governor at the European Monetary Institute (EMI) (the precursor to the ECB).<\/p>\n