Yannis Stournaras
 Yannis Stournaras      (central banker, economist) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Γιάννης Στουρνάρας 10 December 1956 Athens, Greece | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Greek | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Athens, St Catherine's College (Oxford) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Party | Independent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek economist who attended Bilderberg/2009, then installed as finance minister in 2012 and Governor of the Bank of Greece in 2014 - where he pauperized Greece.
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Yannis (or Giannis) Stournaras is a Greek economist who attended the 2009 Bilderberg meeting. The Greek government appointed Stournara finance minister in 2012 after its first choice resigned due to ill health less than a week after being appointed.[1][2][3][4][5]
As finance minister and central bank governor, he was the enforcer of an austerity program that fueled a social crisis. He led "negotiations" with representatives of "the troika" of international financial institutions (the EU, IMF, and ECB)[6], pleasing international fiance by selling government assets at fire sale prices[7].
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Early life and education
Stournaras received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Athens in 1978. He received a Master's degree (MPhil) and doctorate (DPhil) in economic theory and policy from the University of Oxford in 1980 and 1982 respectively.[8][9]
Career
From 1982 to 1986, Stournaras worked as a lecturer and research fellow at St Catherine's College, Oxford, and as a research fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.[9] He then returned to Greece where he worked as a special advisor to the Ministry of Finance from 1986 to 1989, to the Bank of Greece from 1989 to 1994, and for the Ministry of Finance again from 1994 to 2000.[8]
Stournaras was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from 1994 to July 2000.[9] In this capacity he helped formulate the Greece's macroeconomic policy in the run-up to Greece's accession to the European Monetary Union (Eurozone), and represented the Ministry of Finance at the Monetary Committee (now Economic and Financial Committee) of the European Union. He was also responsible for consultations with other international and supranational organisations such as the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.[8]
Stournaras has been a professor of economics at the University of Athens, which he joined in 1989. He is the director of the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), a Greek think-tank.[8]
As every Governor of an IMF member country, he is on the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund.[10]
Crisis as an excellent opportunity
In a November 2021 speech, Stournaras saw Covid as a way to achieved multiple goals (goals suspected of being Bilderberg agendas; notably EU financial integration, and forcing through an economic centralization under the pretext of a combating "climate change").[11]
In the speech, he stated that "The global policy response to the Covid-19 crisis presents an excellent opportunity to adopt a coordinated approach to tackling climate change — to re-design a more inclusive, sustainable and carbon neutral development pathway, aligned with the UN Agenda, the Sustainable Development Goals..over the next years, the world will invest heavily to recover from the fallout of COVID-19. Along these lines, the Next Generation EU programme has already assigned 30% of the funds on fighting climate change, Encouraging green finance is an excellent way to to strengthen financial integration. In short, scaling up green finance can be a driver for a carbon neutral economy, financial integration and stability in the euro area.
Event Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/2009 | 14 May 2009 | 17 May 2009 | Greece Vouliagmeni | The 57th Bilderberg |
References
- ↑ http://www.bbc.com/news/business-18597785
- ↑ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/greek-pm-samaras-names-prominent-economist-yiannis-stournaras-as-new-finance-minister/2012/06/26/gJQAs1tw3V_story.html
- ↑ http://www.kathimerini.gr/4dcgi/_w_articles_kathremote_1_26/06/2012_449017
- ↑ https://www.reuters.com/article/greece-cabinet-idUSA8N0O800220140609
- ↑ Stournaras confirmed as next Governor of the Bank of Greece 11 June 2014
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/12/business/international/Yannis-Stournaras-to-lead-Greek-central-bank.html
- ↑ https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/144425/nine-assets-set-for-sale-by-next-year/
- ↑ a b c d http://www.ekathimerini.com/142640/article/ekathimerini/news/yiannis-stournaras-a-brief-bio-of-the-new-finance-chief
- ↑ a b c http://www.bankofgreece.gr/Pages/en/Bank/Organization/governingbodies/stournaras.aspx
- ↑ http://www.imf.org/external/np/sec/memdir/members.aspx
- ↑ https://www.bis.org/review/r211213m.pdf
