Gikas A. Hardouvelis is Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece.  He has a Ph.D. in Economics from U. C. Berkeley, and M. Sc. & B. A. degress in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University.  From June 2014 to January 2015 he was the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic. 

Hardouvelis is Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, member of the Board of the Multinational Finance Society, member of the Academic Council of the Cyprus International Institute of Management, President of the Scholarship Committee of the Hellenic Harvard Foundation, a Trustee of Anatolia College, and member of Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Foundation for the Economic & Industrial Research.

In the past he served as Research Adviser to the Bank of Greece and to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and as Chief Economist of the National Bank of Greece and of Eurobank. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Derivatives Exchange and of the National Securities, S.A.  As a member of the Governing Council of the University of Peloponnese, he was responsible for setting up its Economics Department. He also served the Hellenic Republic twice as Head of the Prime Minister’s Economic Office.

His academic work extends in the fields of Finance and Macroeconomics and is published in prestigious top-ranking academic journals, including the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business, and other journals.