Politicians & Insiders
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld is a member of the German Council of Economic Experts since 2011 and as an adviser of the German Government he has followed closely the developments in the Greek crisis. Feld is also director of the Walter Eucken Institut and Professor for Economic Policy at the University of Freiburg.
Klaus Regling
Klaus P. Regling is a German economist and current Chief Executive Officer of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) and Managing Director of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Although, he has admitted the fact that the institutions had underestimated the depth of the Greek crisis, he never opted for an alternative handling.
Michel Sapin
Michel Sapin, former French politician, served as Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1993 and from 2014 to 2017, playing a crucial role during the 2015 negotiations between the Greek government and its institutional creditors.
Pierre Moscovici
Pierre Moscovici, French politician, had been minister of Finance from 2012 to 2014 when he assumed as European Commissioner of Economic and Financial Affairs, Taxation and Customs. Moscovici, who had been in the heart of the negotiations of 2015, has publicly charged former Minister of Finance, Yanis Varoufakis, for the way he handled the negotiations with the institutions.
Jack Lew
Jack Lew, American attorney and Democratic Party politician, served as United States Secretary of the Treasury from 2013 to 2017. He watched closely developments in negotiations between Greece and its creditors, urging for the need to reach an agreement, while in 2016, in line with IMF, he called repeatedly for debt restructuring, deeming Greece’s debt as unsustainable.
Daleep Singh
Daleep Singh, American economist, worked at the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2017. As Assistant Secretary for financial markets he helped shape the Department’s response to the crisis in Greece. In February 2015 he visited Athens and met with the government’s economic and finance team.
Euclid Tsakalotos
Euclid Tsakalotos is an economist and politician who has been Minister of Finance from July 2015 until July 2019. During the first months of Alexis Tsipras administration he was appointed as Alternate Minister within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and led the team which negotiated the third bailout package.
Adonis Georgiades
Adonis Georgiades began his career as a TV salesperson that promoted books of nationalist and far-right content while he also hosted the TV show the Rise of the Greeks. In 2007 he entered the Greek parliament with the nationalist Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) party. In 2012 he moved into the conservative New Democracy party. He served as Minister for Health from June 2013 until June 2014. Today, he serves as Development Investments Minister in the newly-elected government of New Democracy.
Ioannis Mouzalas
Ioannis Mouzalas, gynecologist, has been one of the founding members of the Greek chapter of the Doctors of the World. In August 2015 he served in the government of SYRIZA as alternate minister of migration policy until November 2016, when his portfolio was elevated to a ministry. Since then, Mouzalas served as minister of migration policy until February 2018. Mouzalas had been in the core of the decision making process having to handle the refugee crisis when it was in its peak.
Miranda Xafa
Miranda Xafa initiated her career at the IMF in 1980, focusing on programs imposed to Latin America. From 1991 to 1993 she served as chief economic advisor of then prime minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis, father of current prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Xafa served as a member of the board of the IMF from 2004 to 2009 and today she is CEO of a consulting company and member of the academic board of the neoliberal think tank, KEFiM, whose views frequently coincide with current government’s economic policies.
Stergios Pitsiorlas
Stergios Pitsiorlas served as chairman (2015-2016) of the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund which was responsible for carrying out a massive privatization program. Pitsiorlas resigned from HRADF to assume the position of Deputy Minister of Economy and Development until August 2018 when he was appointed Alternate Minister of Industry, a position he held until the government’s defeat in the 2019 elections.
