Louka KATSELI

Chair of the Board - National Bank of Greece

Professor Louka T. Katseli is Professor of International Economics and Development in the Department of Economics of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens since 1987 and Chair of the Board of the National Bank of Greece. She has served as Greece’s Minister of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2009-10), Minister of Labor and Social Security (2010-2012), and a member of the Hellenic Parliament (2007-2012).

As Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University (1977-1985), she received distinctions as best young professor at Yale (1980) and has been the recipient of numerous fellowships. Director of the OECD Development Centre in Paris between 2003-2007, she has been a member of several prominent international and European Committees including the UN Committee of Development Policy  (1996-2003), the European Commission’s Economic and Monetary Policy Committees and  the “Comité des Sages” on the Reform of the European Social Charter (1995-1997). Prof. Katseli has also served as Director General of the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) (1982-1986 ), and as International Economic Advisor to the Greek Prime Minister (1993-1996).   She has published extensively in the areas of development assistance and finance, migration management , investment and capital flows, exchange rate policy and institution-building in European and developing countries. Recent publications include Macroeconomic Analysis and the Greek Economy , Dardanos ,Athens, (2007),  Gaining from Migration: towards a new mobility system, OECD, Paris,  (2007), Migration, Aid & Trade: Policy Coherence for Development , Policy Brief n° 28, OECD Development Centre, (2006),  “EU Policy Coherence on Security and Development: A new Agenda for Research and Policy-making”, in Hans Guenter Brauch, edts., Globalisation and Environmental Challenges, Springer, (2007).