Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Name Yannis Papathanasiou | Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis Role Greek Politician Succeeded by Athanasios Bouras Party New Democracy | |
Succeeded by Giorgos Papakonstantinou, Louka Katseli Education National Technical University of Athens People also search for Dora Bakoyannis, Konstantinos Karamanlis, Ioannis Kostopoulos | ||
Preceded by Georgios Alogoskoufis | ||
Solving the problems of the European economies - Greek Minister of Economy Yannis Papathanasiou
Yannis Papathanasiou (Greek: Γιάννης Παπαθανασίου) (born January 1, 1954) is a Greek politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament with the conservative New Democracy party since 2002.
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- Solving the problems of the European economies Greek Minister of Economy Yannis Papathanasiou
- Background business and political career
- References
Background, business and political career
Papathanasiou was born in Athens on January 1, 1954. He studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.
He has been chairman and managing director of the company ‘I. D. Papathanassiou SA - Trading of technological equipment for buildings since December 31, 2002.
He has been Member of the Board of Directors (1982–1988), Secretary General (1988–1993) and President (1994–2000) of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI).
In the period 1991-1992, he was advisor on energy issues, at the Minister of Commerce Industry and Energy and between 1992–1993, he has been vice-chairman of the Board of Directors of Public Gas Corporation (DEPA).
He was first elected member of the Hellenic Parliament in 2002, from the state deputies' list, with New Democracy party and then was elected member of the parliament in Athens B constituency, in the elections of 2004, 2007 and 2009.