Rania Antonopoulos
| Rania Antonopoulos | |
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| Ράνια Αντωνοπούλου | |
Rania Antonopoulos at a 2013 lecture at Columbia University
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| Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment | |
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Assumed office 27 January 2015 |
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| Prime Minister | Alexis Tsipras |
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December 17, 1960 Athens, Greece |
| Political party | Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) |
| Spouse(s) | Dimitri B. Papadimitriou |
| Alma mater | New School for Social Research |
| Profession | Economist |
Rania Antonopoulos, born Ourania Antonopoulou (Greek: Ουρανία Αντωνοπούλου) on 17 December 1960 in Athens, is a Greek heterodox economist and Syriza politician. Since the January 2015 election, she has been the Greek Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment. Between February and August 2015, she also was a member of the Hellenic Parliament.
A former adviser and consultant for UN Women, UNDP and the ILO, she is specialized in macroeconomic gender issues and unemployment. She is Associate Professor of Economics at New York Bard College and a senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute where she is involved with the Modern Monetary Theory school of post-Keynesian economics.
A co-initiator of the Economists for Full Employment project, she has been a long-time supporter of a job guarantee with the state being employer of last resort. Following a successful 2011 pilot project, she has been appointed Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment in the Syriza-led Tsipras Government. In her ministerial office, she is specifically tasked with implementing a nationwide program to combat long-term unemployment by creating at least 300,000 new jobs for the unemployed.
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