Gikas Hardouvelis

Gikas Hardouvelis

Chairman of the Board of Directors

National Bank of Greece

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.