Panagiotis Roumeliotis

Panagiotis Roumeliotis is an Emeritus Professor at the Panteion University of Athens, a Vice Chairman at Piraeus Bank (one of the biggest in Greece) and a former Minister of Finance as well as of Trade. He was Greece’s representative to the International Monetary Fund from March 2010 until December 2011. He was placed in this position by the Minister of Finance, Giorgos Papakonstantinou, at a time when Greece and the Troika were negotiating the first loan agreement. He entered the public spotlight because of an interview with the NY Times, in the summer of 2012. “We knew at the Fund from the very beginning that this Program was impossible to be implemented because we didn’t have any — any — successful example,” he said.