Gikas A. Hardouvelis is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Banking and Financial Management at the University of Piraeus, and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece.
He served as Chairman of the Hellenic Bank Association from 2023 to 2025.
He was Research Adviser & Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1987–1993), and Adviser to the Bank of Greece (1994–1995). In the private financial sector, he held key managerial positions at the National Bank of Greece (1996–2004) and Eurobank (2005–2014).
In the public sector, he served as Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic from June 2014 to January 2015, and twice as Director of the Economic Office of the Greek Prime Minister: from May 2000 to March 2004 and from November 2011 to May 2012.
Prof. Hardouvelis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1985), and both a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude) and an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University (1978). He has taught at Barnard College of Columbia University and at Rutgers University.
His academic research in Finance and Economics, often as sole author, is published in top-tier international journals and is widely cited.