George Chouliarakis is Economic Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of Greece.

He was Greece’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers from February 2015 to July 2019, interim Minister of Finance in the run up to the elections of September 2015, and Alternate Minister of Finance – responsible for fiscal policy and the sovereign debt – from September 2015 to July 2019.

From May to August 2015, he led Greece through the technical negotiations with the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund that resulted in the country’s economic adjustment program 2015-2018 and prevented Greece’s exit from the European Monetary Union.

He served as a member of the Eurogroup Working Group (EWG), a member of the Eurogroup, a member of the Board of Directors of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), and a member of the Economic Policy Committee of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

From January 2020 to December 2022, he was Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Since January 2020, he has been serving as member of the Scientific Committee of the Chair in Sovereign Debt, Paris School of International Affairs, Sciences Po.

Prior to these, he held appointments at the Economics Departments of the University of Manchester (2004-15) and the University of Essex (1999-2004). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick.