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Present Positions
Alternate to the Governor of the Bank of Greece, Governing Council of the European Central Bank
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Research interests
Monetary policy
Monetary doctrine
Time-series econometrics
Contact Details
Bank of Greece
Room 548
21, El. Venizelos Avenue
102 50 Athens, Greece
tel. +30 210 320 2370
e-mail. gtavlas@bankofgreece.gr
George S. Tavlas has held the positions of the Alternate to the Governor of the Bank of Greece and the Accompanying Person of the Governor of the Bank of Greece on the Governing Council of the European Central Bank since 2008 and 2002, respectively. He is also Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a position that he has held since 2016.
Tavlas was Chief Economist of the Bank of Greece from 2011 to 2013 and Director General of the Bank of Greece from 2009 to 2013. He was a member of the General Council and the Monetary Policy Council of the Bank of Greece from 2013 to 2020. He participated in the management and resolution of the sovereign and banking crises in Greece. He was involved in the process of Greece's entry into the Eurozone as a key advisor to the Greek central bank's governors at the time.
Before joining the Bank of Greece, Tavlas was a Division Chief at the International Monetary Fund. He also worked as a senior economist at the U.S. Department of State, and as an advisor for the World Bank, and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. From 2016 to 2019 he was a member of the Supervisory Board of the Hellenic Corporation for Assets and Participations (HCAP), the sovereign wealth fund of the Greek government.
He has been Editor-in-Chief of Open Economies Review, (published by Springer) since 2005. He also has been a Visiting Professor at Leicester University and visiting scholar at the Brookings Institution, the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, the Reserve Bank of South Africa, the LeBow School of Business at Drexel University, and Duke University’s Center for the History of Political Economy.
Tavlas is an active researcher in the areas of monetary policy, monetary doctrine, and time-series econometrics, with numerous academic publications. His book, The Monetarists: The Making of the Chicago Monetary Tradition, 1927–1960, was published by the University of Chicago Press in June 2023.
Tavlas earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 1977. He earned his B.S. from Babson College and his M.S. degree from New York University
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