Christina Papaconstantinou
Deputy Governor, Bank of Greece
Christina Papaconstantinou is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece since March 2021. She has a long and wide-ranging professional experience in the public and private sectors, specialising in structural reform monitoring and economic policy coordination, fiscal policy, financial services, state aid, credit institution liquidation, and non-performing loans.
She serves as Chair to the Board of Directors of DIAS S.A. since 2021 and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Athens Concert Hall Organisation since 2020. During 2019-2021 she was a member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission.
Before her appointment as Deputy Governor she was the Chair of the Board of Directors of PQH Single Special Liquidation S.A. from 2017. She has also served as advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office and worked as external consultant on matters of state aid, fiscal management, EU company and competition law, and as expert in IMF missions.
From 2012 to 2014 she served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance and as Secretary General of Fiscal Policy at the General Accounting Office. She represented Greece in various international fora and was a member of the Greek teams that negotiated the economic adjustment programmes for Greece and the 2012 PSI, monitored the EFSF loan agreement, and coordinated the implementation of the economic adjustment programmes for Greece.
She is a graduate from the Law School of the University of Athens and holds a master’s degree (LLM) in European Community Law from the University of London.