Mr. Panayotis Aristidis (Takis) Thomopoulos possesses long experience in international financial affairs and has very good knowledge of the global economy, holding through his career top management posts.

•Since November 2016 Chairman of the Board of Directors (BoD) -National Bank of Greece

•April 2015 -October 2016 Vice Chairman of the BoD -Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg

•March 2015 -Aug. 2016 Vice-Chairman of the BoD -Eurolife Insurance Company

•July 2014 -Jan. 2015 Chairman of the BoD -Eurobank

•Jan. 2014 -June 2014 Independent BoD member -National Bank of Greece.

•Oct. 2010 -Febr. 2013 Chairman of the BoD and Chief Exec. Officer (CEO)-Hellenic Financial Stability Fund {HFSF)

•Oct. 1994 -Febr. 2009 Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece and Member until Sept. 2010 of the

Monetary Policy Council, overseeing the Banking Supervision Department, the Legal Department, the

Government Financial Operations and Accounts Department, the Electronic Secondary Securities Market

Operations Section, the Department Issuing and Placing the Public Debt (until the POMA was created in

2008), the Section managing the Common Capital, i.e. the non-current account of all pension funds (except private pension companies), Member of the very restricted team which prepared Greece's entry into the

Euro Area. He participated, alongside the Governor (or standing in for him) in the Governing Council and the General Council of the European Central Bank (ECB). Member of the ECB International Relations' Committee 2002-2010 and the Committee of Alternates of the European Monetary Institute 1994-1998

•2002 -2009 Member -Economic and Financial Committee of the EU (EFC)

•2002-2008 Alternate Governor -IMF for Greece

•1966-1994 Senior Economist-OECD Paris Economics Department, Head of Country Desks preparing the

Economic Surveys and Forecasts (published in the semi-annual Economic Outlook) for the UK, Spain,

Belgium, Luxembourg, Greece, Ireland and Yugoslavia.

•Since 1996 BoD Member and Member of the Executive Committee and since 2015 Vice-President of the BoD and the Executive Committee -Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE), Athens

•1996-2011 President of the BoD -Electronic lnterbanking Systems S.A. DIAS

•1998-2010 Member of the BoD -Greek Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA)

•1992-1996 Member of the BoD -Onassis Foundation

•1995-2001 Member of the BoD -Athens Airport (Eleftherios Venizelos)

•1999-2001 Chairman of the BoD -Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games, Athens 2004 S.A.

Studies: 

B.Sc (Econ) and a M.Sc. (Econ) -The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Also attended a DEA course at the Universite de Paris-I.

Avid reader of history books, especially 19th and 20th century European History, he speaks three languages (Greek, English, French and reads Spanish).

He often writes articles on Greek and global economic subjects in Greek newspapers.

Mr. Thomopoulos was born in Patras, is married and has two adult children.