Nikos Christodoulakis Νίκος Χριστοδουλάκης |
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Minister of the Economy, Infrastructure, Shipping and Tourism | |
In office 28 August 2015 – 21 September 2015 |
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Prime Minister | Vassiliki Thanou |
Preceded by | Giorgos Stathakis |
Succeeded by | Giorgos Stathakis (Economy, Development and Tourism) |
Minister of the Economy and Finance | |
In office 24 October 2001 – 10 March 2004 |
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Prime Minister | Costas Simitis |
Preceded by | Yiannos Papantoniou |
Succeeded by | Georgios Alogoskoufis |
Minister of Development | |
In office 13 April 2000 – 24 October 2001 |
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Prime Minister | Costas Simitis |
Preceded by | Evangelos Venizelos |
Succeeded by | Akis Tsochatzopoulos |
Personal details | |
Born | 1952 (age 64–65) Armenoi, Greece |
Political party | Panhellenic Socialist Movement |
Alma mater |
National Technical University of Athens University of Cambridge |
Nikos Christodoulakis (Greek: Νίκος Χριστοδουλάκης) (born 1952) is a Greek politician, economics professor and electronics engineer. He was the Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece from 2001 to 2004.
Born in Chania, Crete he graduated in electronics engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975, and he completed his postgraduate studies (MPhill) in Economics at the University of Cambridge in 1981, where he also received a PhD three years later, in 1984.
Over the following years he worked as a consultant engineer in some companies (1974–1980) he became a teaching professor at the Technological Educational Institutes (TEI) in Greece (1977–1980), a Senior Research Officer at the University of Cambridge (1984–1986), an Assistant Professor at the Athens University of Economics (1986–1989), a Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence (1989–1990), a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus (1996), a Visiting Professor at the Charles University in Prague (1992–1993) and the Vice-Rector of the Athens University of Economics and Business (1992–1994), where he's also a teacher since 1990 up to present, currently teaching at the Department of International & European Economic Studies of the university. He was also a researcher in the Tinbergen Institute, the London School of Economics and the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and has also published lots of economic related academic books and articles over the last three decades.