Giorgos Provopoulos, former governor of the Financial institution of Greece, has died aged 74.
Within the interval from 2008 to 2014, as Governor of the Financial institution of Greece and a member of its Board of Administrators European Central Financial institutionmanaged the whole restructuring of the Greek banking system, in a world context financial disaster the place the nation went.
Throughout the identical interval he was Deputy Commander CAI for Greece and a member of BIS (Financial institution for Worldwide Settlements).
George Provopoulos was born on April 20, 1950 in Piraeus. He graduated from his Division of Economics Athens Legislation College and continued his research on scholarship in Britain, the place he obtained a PhD College of Essex after a scholarship from the State Scholarship Basis.
From 1979 to 2007 he taught Economics at college of athens. In 1990 he participated with Angelo Angelopoulos in a committee that shaped Zolota Authorities to stabilize the economic system.
Within the interval 1990-1993 he was deputy governor of the Financial institution of Greece and president of the Council of Financial Specialists.
He then moved to the non-public sector, and labored as a monetary advisor in Alpha Financial institution. In 2004 she performed an important position in writing her authorities programme New Republic within the area of economics. In the identical 12 months he was appointed to the administration of Emporiki Financial institution and later oversaw its sale to the French Credit score Recreation.
Between 2006 and 2008 he was Vice President and Managing Director Financial institution of Piraeus.
In June 2008, he was appointed head of the TtE. His time period resulted in 2014.
Amongst different issues, he participated as vice-president of the board of the Union of Hellenic Banks, a member of the Financial Committee of the European Union, Deputy Governor of the Worldwide Financial Fund for Greece, vice-president of the Put up Financial savings Financial institution, member of the TITAN firm and the Basis for Financial and Industrial Analysis (IOBE).
He was chairman of the Board of Administrators of the ELLAKTOR Group.
In 2003 he was honored Academy of Athens with the Ethical and Political Sciences Class prize for his e book “The Dynamics of the Monetary System”.