George Passaris is a Director and the Senior Regional Representative for Greece and Cyprus, a position he assumed at the beginning of 2024. His role focuses on further building and managing EIF’s strategic relationships and enhancing the cooperation with all key stakeholders in Greece & Cyprus. Prior to that he headed the Credit Market Products Department at the European Investment Fund (EIF), covering the areas of securitisation and senior private credit investments. George has been a financial market professional for 35 years, working in multiple asset classes in debt, structured finance, and private credit. Prior to the EIF, he worked as a consultant with BlackRock’s Financial Market Advisory Group in the aftermath of the Great Financial Crisis, in various projects for a number of banks in Ireland and in Greece. In the past, he was a Managing Director in structured finance with Prudential Financial in London and prior to that, George also held senior positions in structured finance, debt capital markets and derivatives with Bear Stearns, ABN AMRO Bank and Bank of America. George holds an MBA from Manchester Business School and a BA (Hons) in Economics from the Economic University of Athens.
