Dr. Hardouvelis is Professor of Finance and Economics in the Department of Banking and Financial Management of the University of Piraeus in Greece. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Economics from UC Berkeley, and M.Sc. & B.A. degrees in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University. His academic work extends in the fields of Finance and Macroeconomics with a focus on the yield curve, margin requirements, bank credibility, the EMU and monetary policy. He has published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of Business among others. He served as the Minister of Finance of the Hellenic Republic from June 2014 to January 2015. Full CV