Loucas Papademos is a renowned ethical man and his valuable work is well known in Greece and abroad so further recommendations are not needed.
However in this country that, especially now, everyone and everything are into question, a short cover of his biographical information is needed.
The current president of Academy of Athens, former prime minister, who in November 2011 was asked to prevent Greece’s ultimate “derailment” and to set the basis of exiting from the crisis, had a terroristic letter bomb exploded within his car.
He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed Senior Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He joined the Bank of Greece in 1985 as its Chief Economist, rising to the rank of Deputy Governor in 1993, and finally Governor in 1994.
In 2002 he left Bank of Greece and became the Vice President, at the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and he was involved in Greece’s transition from the drachma to the euro as its national currency.
He is a thrifty, hardworking gentle man that offered his services for the success of his country and despite all these he was the first former minister, after Eleftherios Venizelos, after more than eighty years, that became a victim of an attempted homicide.
This is the big problem of nowadays. The hate that was cultivated by the ignorants of history.
To Vima
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