Harris Georgiades ( el, Χάρης Γεωργιάδης; born 9 April 1972) is a

Greek Cypriot Greek Cypriots or Cypriot Greeks ( el, Ελληνοκύπριοι, Ellinokýprioi, tr, Kıbrıs Rumları) are the ethnic Greek population of Cyprus, forming the island's largest ethnolinguistic community. According to the 2011 census, 659,115 r ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

and

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

. He was pivotal in the successful implementation of the economic reform plan for Cyprus and its successful conclusion in 2016. Harris Georgiades is chairman of the Foreign and European Affairs Committee of the Cyprus Parliament and Deputy Leader of the Democratic Rally Party. He served as Minister of Finance of the Republic of Cyprus between April 2013 – December 2019. Born in 1972 in Nicosia, he holds a BA and an MA in international relations and economics from the University of Reading, UK. Between 1999 and 2011 he was managing director of a family-owned hotel business. In 2011 he was elected to the Cyprus House of Representatives with the Democratic Rally, a member of the centre-right European Peoples Party. Was appointed as Minister of Finance in 2013, at the height of a severe financial crisis. He was successful in restoring the soundness of the Cyprus economy, placing it in a path of solid economic growth, surplus budgets, rating upgrades and banking sector restructuring. He was a long-serving member of the Eurogroup and the ECOFIN and was elected chairman of the Board of Governors the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for the period 2014–2015. In 2016 he was selected by POLITICO as one of 28 influential Europeans and in 2019 was Chair of the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Summit. He was elected as Deputy Leader of the governing Democratic Rally Party in January 2020 and was re-elected to the House of Representatives in May 2021.

Other activities

European Union organizations

* European Investment Bank (EIB), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013–2019) *

European Stability Mechanism The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is an intergovernmental organization located in Luxembourg City, which operates under public international law for all eurozone member states having ratified a special ESM intergovernmental treaty. It was ...

(ESM), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013–2019)

International organizations

* European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), chairman of the Board of Governors (2014–2015) *

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glo ...

(IMF), Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013–2019) *

Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is an international financial institution which offers political risk insurance and credit enhancement guarantees. These guarantees help investors protect foreign direct investments against ...

(MIGA),

World Bank Group The World Bank Group (WBG) is a family of five international organizations that make leveraged loans to developing countries. It is the largest and best-known development bank in the world and an observer at the United Nations Development Gr ...

, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013–2019) *

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

, Ex-Officio Member of the Board of Governors (2013–2019)

Non-profit organizations

World Economic Forum The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, canton of Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded on 24 January 1971 by German engineer and economist Klaus Schwab. The foundation, ...

(WEF), Member of the Europe Policy Group (since 2017)

Recognition

In 2016, Georgiades was featured in

POLITICO ''Politico'' (stylized in all caps), known originally as ''The Politico'', is an American, German-owned political journalism newspaper company based in Arlington County, Virginia, that covers politics and policy in the United States and intern ...

magazine as one of the 28 most influential Europeans

References

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