Prof. Gikas A. Hardouvelis is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece since 2021 and the Chairman of the Hellenic Bank Association since November 2023. He is also Emeritus Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece. Previously he served as the Senior Independent Director of the NBG BoD. He also 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). In the private financial sector, he held key managerial positions at the National Bank of Greece (1996-2004) and Eurobank (2005-2014). At the public sector he served as the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic (June 2014 to January 2015). Prior to that, he had served twice as the Director of the Economic Office of the Greek Prime Minister during May 2000 - March 2004 and November 2011 - May 2012. 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.
