The Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) is a government agency in Greece. Its stated purpose is the: "improvement of the cost of funding and the achievement of the best possible structure (composition and maturity) of the public debt according to the needs of the Hellenic State and the prevailing international economic conditions."
Organisation
The PDMA was founded in 1999.
It is headed by a Board of Directors, appointed by the
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
. This Board of Directors includes the Director General of the PDMA, who handles the day-to-day running of the agency.
The current make-up is:
* Chairman of the Board: Athanasios Petralias, Secretary General of Fiscal Policy
* Deputy Chairman of the Board: Ioulia Armagou, General Director of Fiscal Policy and Budget
* Member of the Board: Theodoros Mitrakos, Deputy Governor of the
Bank of Greece
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* Member of the Board: Christos Triantopoulos, Secretary General of Economic Policy of the Hellenic Ministry of Finance
* Member of the Board: Dimitris Tsakonas, General Director of the PDMA
Director Generals of the PDMA
* Dimitris Tsakonas, 2018–present
* Stelios Papadopoulos, 2012–2018
*
Petros Christodoulou
Petros Christodoulou ( el, Πέτρος Χριστοδούλου; born 1960) is a Greek economist and banker.
Biography
Christodoulou was born in 1960. Christodoulou earned his B.Sc. in finance at the Athens University of Economics and Business ...
, 2010–2012
* Spyros Papanicolaou, 2005–2010
* Christoforos Sardelis, 1999–2004
Sources:
See also
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Greek government-debt crisis
Greece faced a sovereign debt crisis in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007–2008. Widely known in the country as The Crisis ( Greek: Η Κρίση), it reached the populace as a series of sudden reforms and austerity measures that ...
References
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Greek government-debt crisis
1999 establishments in Greece