Biographical note of newly-appointed FinMin Euclid Tsakalotos

He studied Economics, Politics and Philosophy at the Universities of Oxford and Sussex, and completed his PhD in 1989 at the University of Oxford.

He has also taught at the Universities of Kent and Athens University of Economics and Business until September 2010. Since 2010, he is Professor of Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

He has been a member of the Central Political Committee since July 2013 and a member of the Executive Committee of POSDEP (Hellenic Federation of University Teachers’ Associations). In May 2012 he was elected a SYRIZA MP in Athens and he was re-elected in 2015.

He has written six books and contributed articles to numerous scientific magazines on macroeconomics, European Union economics, political economy and philosophy of social sciences.

Tsakalotos has also been a member of the parliament’s Permanent Committee of Economic Affairs. In January 2015 he took over as Alternate Minister for International Economic Relations.

Source: anampa.gr