Nicholas Theocarakis

Nicholas Theocarakis, also transcribed as Nikos Theocharakis (Greek: Νίκος Θεοχαράκης, born 1956), is a Greek economist and professor of economics at Athens University. He is the author of several books and contributions on economic theory and history of economic thought.

Nicholas Theocarakis
Νίκος Θεοχαράκης
Secretary General of Fiscal Policy
In office
4 March 2015 – 16 October 2015
Appointed byYanis Varoufakis
Prime MinisterAlexis Tsipras
MinisterEuclid Tsakalotos
Preceded byEmmanuel Mamatzakis
Succeeded byFragkiskos Koutentakis
Personal details
Born1956 (1956)
Athens, Greece
Political partyIndependent
Alma materAthens University, Cambridge University
Academic career
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

In March 2015, he was appointed General Secretary of Fiscal Policy leading the technical negotiations of the Greek Ministry of Finance with the Eurogroup. At the end of April, PM Alexis Tsipras made changes in the negotiation team.[1]

Early life and education

Born 1956, Theocharakis visited the Varvakeio model high school in Athens, receiving his diploma in 1974. He studied Economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Churchill College of Cambridge University, where he graduated in 1979. At Cambridge University he would later also complete his doctoral thesis in economics.[2]

Career

Since 1988 Theocharakis has been teaching political economy and History of economic thought.[2] Previously an assistant professor, in 2013 he was promoted to the status of an associated professor at the Department of Economics of Athens University. He has served twice as the director of the Political Economy division.[3] Before his appointment as Secretary General he has served as director of UADPhilEcon, the doctoral program in economics of the University of Athens and as the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences representative to the University of Athens Research Committee.[2]

Previously Theocarakis had also worked in the private sector and served as a board member at the Emporiki Bank, Egnatia Bank and Ethniki Asfalistiki.[4] Before his appointment as assistant professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Athens he worked as Deputy Managing Director of Nic. J. Theocarakis S.A.

An academic colleague, regular co-author and confidant of Greek ex-Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis,[5] Theocharakis on 4 March 2015 was appointed the ministry's new Secretary General for Fiscal Policy. Until the end of April 2015 he was in charge of the negotiations in the Brussels Group and the Ministry of Finance representative in the Eurogroup Working Group.[6] He resigned from the position of Secretary General for Fiscal Policy in October 2015. From late October 2015 he is the Scientific Director and Chairman of KEPE (Centre of Planning and Economic Research).[7] He resigned his position in July 2019 and he was replaced by Prof. P. Liargovas in October 2019.[8] In February 2016 he was appointed by the Ministry of Culture Chairman of the Board of Directors of Megaron-The Athens Concert Hall.[9]

Selected publications
English monograph
  • Modern Political Economics: Making sense of the post-2008 world. (with Yanis Varoufakis and Joseph Halevi). London and New York: Routledge. 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-42888-0.CS1 maint: others (link)
English contributions
Greek monographs

References
  1. Greece Moves to Sideline Varoufakis After Reform Talks Fiasco
  2. Ακαδημαϊκό Βιογραφικό Σημείωμα [Academic CV] (in Greek). National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  3. "Teaching and Research Staff per Division". National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  4. Οι νέοι Γενικοί Γραμματείς του υπουργείου Οικονομικών [The Ministry of Economy's new General Secretaries] (in Greek). 5 March 2015. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  5. "Public Debt: How the classical economists looked upon it (wonkish) – Guest article by Nicholas Theocarakis". 28 November 2014. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  6. Tsirou, Thanos (4 March 2015). O καθηγητής Ν. Θεοχαράκης ο νέος εκπρόσωπος στο EWG [Professor N. Theocarakis new representative in the Euro Working Group] (in Greek). Times of Change. Retrieved 12 April 2015.
  7. Kathimerini: "New Scientific Director of KEPE Nicholas Theocarakis", 28/10/2015 http://www.kathimerini.gr/836666/article/epikairothta/ellada/neos-episthmonikos-diey8ynths-toy-kepe-o-nik-8eoxarakhs
  8. https://www.kathimerini.gr/1048770/article/oikonomia/die8nhs-oikonomia/o-dhkths-251019
  9. Kathimerini: "Change of guard at the Megaron", 23/2/2016 http://www.kathimerini.gr/850423/article/politismos/moysikh/allagh--froyras--sto-megaro
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