The Most Famous
ECONOMISTS from Greece
This page contains a list of the greatest Greek Economists. The pantheon dataset contains 414 Economists, 1 of which were born in Greece. This makes Greece the birth place of the 38th most number of Economists behind Finland, and Malawi.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Greek Economists of all time. This list of famous Greek Economists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Lucas Papademos (b. 1947)
With an HPI of 66.81, Lucas Papademos is the most famous Greek Economist. His biography has been translated into 57 different languages on wikipedia.
Lucas Demetrios Papademos (Greek: Λουκάς Παπαδήμος; born 11 October 1947) is a Greek economist and academic who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat, he previously served as Vice-President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002. He was professor at Columbia University, the University of Athens, and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University, and is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt.
2. Giorgos Papakonstantinou (b. 1961)
With an HPI of 46.85, Giorgos Papakonstantinou is the 2nd most famous Greek Economist. His biography has been translated into 14 different languages.
Giorgos Papakonstantínou (Greek: Γιώργος Παπακωνσταντίνου; born 30 October 1961 in Athens, Greece), is a Greek economist and politician and former Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece and former Minister for Finance. Following expulsion from his party PASOK, he received a one-year suspended sentence for misdemeanours over his handling of the infamous “Lagarde list”. The court found him guilty of removing the names of three relatives of about 2,000 Greeks with money overseas. He is currently a professor at the European University Institute.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Greek economists born between 1947 and 1961. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Greek economists include Lucas Papademos, and Giorgos Papakonstantinou. As of April 2024, 1 new Greek economists have been added to Pantheon including Giorgos Papakonstantinou.
