Harris Georgiades (born 1972, Nicosia) is Chairman of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Cyprus Parliament, Chairman of the “Clerides Institute” and a former Minister of Finance of the Republic of Cyprus (April 2013-December 2019). He holds a BA and an MA in International Relations and Economics from the University of Reading, UK. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2011. He took over as Minister of Finance at the height of a severe financial crisis and was successful in restoring the soundness of the Cyprus economy, placing it on a path of solid economic growth, surplus budgets, rating upgrades and banking sector restructuring. He was a long-serving member of the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN and was elected Chairman of the Board of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for the period 2014-15. In 2016 he was selected by POLITICO as one of 28 influential Europeans. Between 2020-23 he served as Deputy Leader of the Democratic Rally and in 2021 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives. He is the author of two books and has appeared extensively in local and international media. He lives in Nicosia with his wife and teenage daughter.
