Ioannis A. Drosopoulos ( el, Ιωάννης Α. Δροσόπουλος;

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, 27 July 1939) was a

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economist who acted as Subgovernor and Governor of the

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Biography

He was hired in the National Bank at a young age and worked in it for thirty two years in total. In 1911 he was promoted to the position of General Inspector, and then to that of Director and in 1914 was elected Subgovernor. In 1928 he became Governor of the Bank of Greece, a position in which he remained until his death. He was one of the first settlers of

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. He died on 27 July 1939 in

. Athanasios Drosopoulos was his son.

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Ioannis Drosopoulos in ''Pandektis''
by

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Governors of the Bank of Greece Greek bankers 20th-century Greek economists 1870 births 1939 deaths People from Sourpi 19th-century Greek economists {{Greece-economist-stub