|
Petros Doukas was born in Athens in 1952. His father was head of the air force and his mother worked as an assistant to President Harry S. Truman’s press secretary.
He has a BA in economics and international relations from George Washington University, an MBA in management and fiscal relations from Columbia and an MA and PhD in economics from New York University.
From August 1992 to October 1993 he was Deputy Minister of Finance in the government of Konstantinos Mitsotakis. From 1979 to 1985 he worked as an economist and currency analyst for Citibank in New York, and also as foreign exchange exposure management advisor, foreign exchange dealer and money market dealer. In 1986 he took over as Citibank Investment Banking country head and country treasurer for Greece, and in 1990 also took over as country head for institutional and corporate banking. In 1996 he founded Capital Partners S.A., which deals mainly in strategic partnerships and company takeovers and mergers. In March 2004 he was elected deputy for the Precinct of Attica and was appointed Deputy Minister for the Economy and Finance, and head of the General Accounting Office.
He is on the board of the Eliza Goulandris Foundation, and on the board and the executive committee of the Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy.
|
