Plutarchos Sakellaris
Vice President, European Investment Bank (EIB).
His responsibilities on the EIB’s Management Committee include supervising financing operations in Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Cyprus, the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries and South Africa. Mr. Sakellaris is also responsible for the EIB’s activity reflecting its energy policy and the Bank’s Economic and Financial Studies division.
Prior to joining the EIB, Mr. Sakellaris held the positions of Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers at the Hellenic Ministry of Economy and Finance and Professor in the Department of Economics of the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was the Greek representative at the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union and acted as Deputy at the Eurogroup and ECOFIN Councils, as well as Alternate Governor for Greece at the World Bank. Mr. Sakellaris also served on the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece, the Hellenic Public Debt Management Agency, and the Institute for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE).
He taught for eleven years in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland, USA and has also taught at the University of Ioannina (Greece), Central European University (Budapest), University of Munich and Yale University. He has presented seminars at numerous Universities and international conferences.
His professional experience has also included :
- Visiting Expert - European Central Bank (ECB) : 2001-2003
- Staff Economist and Consultant - Federal Reserve Board, U.S.A. : 1998-2000
- Research Associate - U.S. Census Bureau : 1998- 2002
He completed his undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, U.S.A. (B.A. 1986) and his doctoral studies at Yale University, U.S.A. (Ph.D. 1992). His research is focused on monetary policy, productivity and sources of growth, firm investment in physical capital, the industrial sector and education. His papers have been published in books and in international journals, such as : American Economic Review, Journal of Monetary Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, International Economic Review, Economic Policy and Oxford Economic Papers.
He was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1964. He is married and has three children.