Nikolaos Koulocheris was appointed in August 2021 as the Secretary General of Economic Policy in the Ministry of Finance and, ex officio, as the Chairman of the Government Committee on the strategy for the prevention and suppression of money laundering, terrorist financing (AML/CFT) and the financing of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
Nikolaos Koulocheris is a practicing lawyer, member of the Athens Bar Association and was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court in 1998. By the time he was appointed as the Secretary General of Economic Policy, he had been Managing partner in Machas and Partners Law Firm, specializing in civil and labor law, real estate, privatizations and public procurement. In the same period, he worked as an in-house lawyer at the Legal Service of the Greek Manpower Employment Organization (OAED).
He studied law at the Law School in the University of Athens and holds an LL.M. Degree in Labor law from the University of Nuremberg. He has also taught labor law in ALBA Graduate Business School and participated as an accredited expert negotiator at International Institutions such as the International Labor Office. He was a member of several working groups on the design of institutional framework, such as the one that set up the Hellenic Republic Employment Data Information System “ERGHANI”.
He was also appointed as the liquidator of the Hellenic Foreign Trade Board (HEPO), as the chairman of the Joint Interim Steering Committee of the Workers Housing Organization and the Greek Workers Hearth Organization, and as a BoD member in the Greek Deposit and Loans Fund.
He has extensive work experience and has successfully addressed major projects as chief legal adviser, such as the Ellinikon - Agios Kosmas privatization project acting for the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund.