Euclid Tsakalotos, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Euclid Tsakalotos

Greek economist and politician

Date of Birth: 19-Jun-1960

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: politician, economist, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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About Euclid Tsakalotos

  • Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos (Greek: ????e?d?? Stef???? ?sa?a??t??, Greek pronunciation: [ef'kliðis ste'fanu t?saka'lotos]; born 1960) is a Greek economist and politician who was Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 to 2019.
  • He is also a member of the Central Committee of Syriza and has represented Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012. Tsakalotos was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, but moved to the United Kingdom at a young age.
  • He went to St Paul's School in London before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen's College, University of Oxford.
  • He went on to complete a master's degree at the Institute of Development Studies, which is attached to the University of Sussex, and returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate in economics under the supervision of Wlodzimierz Brus, which he did in 1989.
  • From 1989 to 1993, Tsakalotos worked at the University of Kent, where he met his partner, Heather D.
  • Gibson.
  • He moved to Greece, and taught at the Athens University of Economics and Business from 1994 to 2010, becoming a professor of economics.
  • Since 2010, he has been a professor of economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
  • He has written a number of books in both Greek and English and has been published in a range of different academic journals.
  • Due to his upbringing in the UK, he speaks English with a British accent. A student member of the Communist Party of Greece, Tsakalotos joined Synaspismos in the early 1990s and was elected to the Central Committee of Syriza in 2004 shortly after their formation.
  • He was first elected as a Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Athens B in the May 2012 legislative election and has been re-elected in every election since.
  • In opposition from 2012 to 2015, he was Syriza's shadow finance minister.
  • When Syriza entered government in January 2015, Tsakalotos was appointed as an Alternate Minister within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • In April, he took over as head of Greece's negotiating team on the third bailout package.
  • On 6 July 2015, following Yanis Varoufakis's resignation, Tsakalotos was appointed as Minister of Finance.
  • He was re-appointed in September 2015 following the snap legislative election.

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