Biography
Christina Papaconstantinou is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece since March 2021 and a member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank since January 2024.
She is a member of the Economic and Financial Committee (EFC) of the European Union, alternate member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Regional Consultative Group for Europe and representative of the Bank of Greece in the Eurosystem’s Appia High-Level Advisory Group providing guidance on the use of new technologies for settlement in central bank money.
She is also Chair of the Board of Directors of DIAS Interbank Systems S.A.; member of the Boards of Directors of the Athens Concert Hall Organisation and of the Public Debt Management Agency; member of the Corporate Governance Council of Growthfund, of the Hellenic Parliament’s Committee for MP financial disclosures and of the National Coordinating Committee for Financial Literacy.
From 2017 to 2021, she was Chair of the Board of Directors of PQH Single Liquidator S.A. and, from 2019 to 2021, member of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission.
Between 2012 and 2014, Ms Papaconstantinou served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance, with a parallel appointment as Secretary General of Fiscal Policy at the General Accounting Office of the State. During that period, she was a member of the negotiation team for Greece’s economic adjustment programmes.
Ms Papaconstantinou has been a research associate at the Economic Research and Analysis Unit of the Council of Economic Experts, Ministry of Finance; advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office; Financial Services Counsellor at the Economic and Financial Unit of the Permanent Representation of Greece to the European Union; and legal counsel to the European Affairs Department of Emporiki Bank. She has also worked as an independent legal advisor, specialising in matters related to State aid, fiscal management, company law and EU competition law, and has participated as an expert in IMF missions.
She has represented Greece at the EU Council of Finance Ministers (ECOFIN), in OECD high-level groups and OECD Ministerial Council Meetings (as alternate), in working groups of the EU Economic and Financial Committee (EFC), in the EU Financial Services Committee (FSC) and in the Financial Services Working Group of the EU Council. She has served as a member of the executive committee of the Government Council for Private Debt Management and as a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB). She was also a member of the Greek team that negotiated the 2012 PSI, of the EFSF loan agreement monitoring team and of the team coordinating the implementation of the economic adjustment programmes for Greece.
Christina Papaconstantinou 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.