Gikas Hardouvelis

Gikas Hardouvelis     (economist, politician)
Born	1955-10-08 Poulithra, Greece
Nationality	Greek
Alma mater	Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley
Party	Independent
US educated former Greek Minister of Finance. Bilderberg 2011, same year assisting Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos during talks with bondholders about debt and with the Troika on Greece’s second adjustment program.  Greece/Minister of Finance In office 10 June 2014 - 27 January 2015 Preceded by Yannis Stournaras Succeeded by Yanis Varoufakis

Gikas Hardouvelis is a former Minister of Finance of Greece.

He held position of the director of the Economic Office of Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos (November 2011 – May 2012), assisting the government during talks with bondholders about a writedown of debt and with the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and the European Central Bank on Greece’s second adjustment program. During 2000–2004, he was director of the Economic Office of Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis.

Career

After graduating from high school, Chardouvelis spent 20 years of his career in the United States. He received a bachelor's degree from the philosophy faculty at Harvard University and an M.Sc. in applied mathematics (1978) at the same university. In 1983 he received his PhD in economics (1983) from the University of California, Berkeley. In 1994 he returned to Greece.

He served as a research adviser and economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1987–1993) and as an adviser of the Bank of Greece for the next two years (1994–1995), where he also acted as second alternate to the governor at the European Monetary Institute (precursor to the European Central Bank). Between 1996 and 2000 he held the post of chief economist at the National Bank of Greece, where he restructured the Economic Analysis Division, created the Risk Management Division, the Assets-Liabilities Management Department, and the Investors Relations Department. In the subsequent years he joined Eurobank as its chief economist. During 2000–2004, he was director of the Economic Office of Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis.

He held position of the director of the Economic Office of Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos (November 2011 – May 2012), assisting the government during talks with bondholders about a writedown of debt and with the International Monetary Fund, European Commission and the European Central Bank on Greece’s second adjustment program.

After the cabinet reshuffle in Samara's cabinet due to the loss of votes in the 2014 European elections, Chardouvelis was Finance Minister from June 10, 2014 to January 26, 2015. The term of office of the Samara cabinet ended one day after an early parliamentary election; he was followed by the cabinet of Alexis Tsipras I. After several months of investigations, the anti-corruption committee of the Greek parliament decided at the end of December 2015 that Hardouvelis would have to answer to the judiciary on suspicion of tax evasion.

Hardouvelis is a professor of finance and economics, Department of Banking and Financial Management at the University of Piraeus and chief economist and director of research, EUROBANK Group.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2011	9 June 2011	12 June 2011	Switzerland Hotel Suvretta St. Moritz	59th meeting, in Switzerland, 129 guests

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