Giannis Stournaras

Yannis Stournaras is a professor at the Department of Economics at the University of Athens and the scientific director at 10BE. He graduated from the Department of Economics at the University of Athens in 1978 and obtained his Master's and Doctorate (MPhil 1980, DPhil 1982) from the University of Oxford. He worked at the University of Oxford from 1981 to 1985 as a Research Fellow and Lecturer at St. Catherine's College and as a researcher at the Institute of Energy Studies. From 1986 to 1989, he served as a special advisor to the Ministry of Economy and Finance on Public Enterprises and Income Policy, and subsequently at the Bank of Greece (1989-1994) on monetary policy issues. He was the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors at the Ministry of Economy and Finance from 1994 to July 2000 and participated in the design of macroeconomic and structural policy, representing the Ministry at the European Union's Monetary Committee. During the same period, he was involved in consultations for Greece's participation in the Economic and Monetary Union and was responsible for the annual consultations with the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission, and the OECD. From 1994 to 1997, he was Vice President of the Public Gas Corporation, and from 1998 to July 2000, he was a board member of the Public Debt Management Agency. From July 2000 to March 2004, he served as Chairman and CEO of Commercial Bank and Vice President of the Hellenic Bank Association. From 2005 to 2008, he was CEO at KAPPA Securities, and since 2005, he has been a member of the board of trustees of the Gennadius Library. He is currently the General Director at the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE).