The Bank of Greece’s General Council unanimously decided at its meeting today to propose the reappointment of Christina Papakonstantinou as deputy governor of the Bank of Greece, ahead of the end of her term on 11 March 2027. The proposal will be submitted to the Cabinet under Article 29 of the Bank’s Statute.
Ms Papakonstantinou has been deputy governor of the Bank of Greece since March 2021 and a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) since January 2024.
She is a member of the European Union’s Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), an alternate member of the Regional Consultative Group of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), and represents the Bank of Greece on the Eurosystem’s Appia High-Level Advisory Group, which is exploring new technologies for settling transactions in central bank money.
She is also chair of the board of DIAS Interbanking Systems, a board member of the Athens Concert Hall Organisation and the Public Debt Management Agency, and a member of the Corporate Governance Council of Growthfund, the Hellenic Parliament’s Committee for the Audit of Declarations of Assets and the National Coordinating Committee for Financial Literacy.
From 2017 to 2021, she was chair of the board of PQH Single Liquidator, and from 2019 to 2021 she was a board member of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission.
From 2012 to 2014, she served as secretary general at the Ministry of Finance, while also serving as secretary general for fiscal policy at the General Accounting Office of the State. During the same period, she was part of the negotiating team for the economic adjustment programmes.
She has served as a research associate in the Economic Research and Analysis Unit of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Ministry of Finance; as an adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office; as an adviser on financial matters in the Economic Unit of the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union (EU); and as a legal adviser in the European Affairs Directorate of Commercial Bank of Greece.
She has also worked as an independent legal adviser on state aid, public financial management, corporate law and EU competition law, and has served as an expert on missions of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
She has represented Greece on the EU’s Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), in OECD high-level groups and at OECD ministerial meetings as an alternate, as well as in working groups of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), the Financial Services Committee (FSC) and the Council of the EU’s Financial Services Working Group.
She was a member of the executive committee of the Government Council for Private Debt Management and a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). She took part in the Greek team supporting negotiations on the 2012 bond exchange programme (PSI), the team monitoring the EFSF loan agreement and the coordination team for implementing the economic adjustment programmes.
She holds a degree from the LawSchool of the University of Athens and a postgraduate degree (LLM) in European Community Law from the University of London.