Rania Antonopoulou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Greek economist and politician
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Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece
About Rania Antonopoulou
- Ourania "Rania" Antonopoulou (Greek: ???a??a ??t???p?????; born 17 December 1960) is a Greek heterodox economist and Syriza politician.
- After the January 2015 election, MP Alexis Tsipras named as the Greek Alternate Minister for Combating Unemployment in his cabinet.
- She remains a Syriza member.
- On the 5th of September 2018 she was appointed by the Greek Government as the Permanent Representative of Greece (Ambassador) to the OECD in Paris, France, entrusting her to represent the country despite the severe media attack she had been subjected to a few months earlier.
- Between February and August 2015, she also was a member of the Hellenic Parliament. A former macroeconomic policy adviser for UN Women and consultant UNDP and the ILO, she is specialized in macroeconomic gender issues and job creation in extreme unemployment economic environments.
- She is Associate Professor of Economics at New York Bard College and a senior scholar of the Levy Economics Institute where she is involved with the Modern Monetary Theory school of post-Keynesian economics. A co-initiator of the Economists for Full Employment project, she has been a long-time supporter of a job guarantee with the state being employer of last resort.
- Following a successful 2011 pilot project, she has been appointed Alternate Minister for Combatting Unemployment in the Syriza-led Tsipras Government.
- In her ministerial office, she is specifically tasked with implementing a nationwide program to combat long-term unemployment by creating at least 300,000 new jobs for the unemployed.
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