An non partisan, Ghikas Chardouvelis, is the new minister of Finance in Greece, after an extensive reshuffle of the government announced Monday, 9 June.
Mr. Chardouvelis is a professor at the University of Pireus and head of financial analysis of the Greek banking group, EUROBANK.
He is a research fellow of the London Centre for Economic Policy Research and at the Centre for Money, Banking and Institutions of Surrey Business School.
Ghikas Chardouvelis is replacing Giannis Stournaras, an economist whose role was critical to Greece's relations with the EU, ECB and IMF “Troika”.
Another post, important to Greece's cooperation with the “troika”, this of the minister of Development and Competitiveness goes to Nikos Dendias, up to now Minister of Citizen Protection (order).
According to information, the former minister of Development and Competitiveness, Kostis Chatzidakis, is slated to become Greece's Commissioner in Brussels.