president of the charity group Association of Friends of Children with Cancer
What position did Lucas Papademos take from May 2012 to 2017?
Lucas Papademos Lucas Demetrios Papademos ( ; born 11 October 1947 ) is a Greek economist who served as Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012 , leading a provisional government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis . He previously served as Vice President of the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 and Governor of the Bank of Greece from 1994 to 2002 . He was a visiting professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and is a senior fellow at the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt . Early life and education . Papademos was born in Athens to parents who came from the town of Desfina in Phocis . After graduating from Athens College in 1966 , Papademos was accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he gained a bachelors degree in physics in 1970 , a masters degree in electrical engineering in 1972 , and a doctorate in economics in 1978 . Career as an economist . In 1975 , he worked with Franco Modigliani on the NAIRU concept . He engaged in a career in academia , teaching economics at Columbia University from 1975 until 1984 , before moving to the University of Athens in 1988 . His work as an economist began in 1980 , when 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 . During his time as governor of the central bank , Papademos was involved in Greeces transition from the drachma to the euro as its national currency . After leaving the Bank of Greece in 2002 , Papademos became the vice president to Wim Duisenberg , and then Jean-Claude Trichet , at the European Central Bank from 2002 to 2010 . In 2010 he served as an economic advisor to Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou . He was previously a member of the non-governmental group Trilateral Commission . He is a member of the Academy of Athens . He has published numerous articles in the fields of macroeconomic theory , the structure and functioning of financial markets , monetary analysis and policy , theory of chaos as well as on subjects concerning the economic performance , financial stability , financial instability and economic policy in the European Union . He has also delivered addresses on the Greek debt crisis . Prime Minister of Greece . Papademos was first proposed as a potential caretaker prime minister of Greece in early November 2011 , after Prime Minister George Papandreou offered to resign and allow a provisional coalition government to deal with the major political turmoil caused by the countrys debt crisis . Lucas Papademos set two conditions upon which he would accept the offer of being prime minister of this provisional government . The first , was that the new government would not have a very restricted life span as New Democracy had demanded , and the second was that political figures from both New Democracy and the Panhellenic Socialist Movement ( PASOK ) would participate in the government . Both of these were initially vetoed by New Democracy , but after several days of negotiations they relented and accepted Papademos demands . This enabled Papademos to form a government made up of PASOK and New Democracy , with the support of the far-right Popular Orthodox Rally . After a week of political turmoil and negotiations between parties triggered by Papandreous resignation , Papademos was installed as Prime Minister of Greece on 11 November 2011 , unveiling his provisional Cabinet shortly afterwards . The other two parliamentary parties , the Communist Party and the Coalition of the Radical Left ( SYRIZA ) , had refused Papandreous invitation to participate in the government . The provisional government also marks the first time that the far-right has played a part in any Greek government since the fall of the military junta in 1974 . Papademos stated that his governments primary task would be to facilitate the financial bailout from the European Union – which was provided on the condition that severe budget austerity be implemented – and to lead the country until elections could be held . Papademos also stated that his sole priority as prime minister would be to try to keep Greece within the Eurozone . In January 2012 , Papademos warned that workers would have to accept substantial cuts in their income in order for a default to be avoided . He also told business and union leaders that the troika — the European Union , the International Monetary Fund and the ECB — was looking for Greece to take steps to open up so-called closed professions , as well as adjustments to the minimum wage , abolition of Christmas and summer vacation bonuses and automatic wage increases . Papademos also declared in January that his provisional government would last until at least April , instead of February as was originally planned , so that further austerity measures could be implemented before an election . In late April 2012 , Papademos announced that he would ask President Karolos Papoulias to dissolve the Hellenic Parliament , paving the way for a general election to be held on 6 May 2012 . Papademos had intended to stand down shortly after this election , but it resulted in a hung parliament . Subsequently , New Democracy , PASOK , and the anti-austerity SYRIZA – which had jumped into second place – attempted to form a government , but all were unsuccessful . Emergency negotiations to attempt to avoid a return to the polls took place on 13 May , but were inconclusive . On the same day , Papademos wrote to President Papoulias to inform him that the Ministry of Finance could only afford to pay salaries until the end of June , and that the need for Greece to recapitalise her liquid assets was urgent . Negotiations in the aftermath of the election were unable to produce a government leading to a snap general election , which took place on 17 June 2012 . In the wake of the announcement of the election Papademos stepped down , proposing Panagiotis Pikrammenos – a judge and the President of the Council of State – to replace him as caretaker prime minister until a permanent government could be formed . Personal life . As of 2011 , Papademos has been married to Shanna Ingram for more than 30 years . They have no children . Of Dutch descent , as of 2012 she was the president of the charity group Association of Friends of Children with Cancer . Assassination attempt . In Athens on 25 May 2017 , a suspected letter bomb exploded within his car , causing non-life-threatening arm , leg and stomach injuries to Papademos . His driver sustained leg injuries in the attack and another passenger , a banking official , was also injured . External links . - Curriculum vitae at the ECB website - BBC Profile - Articles at Bloomberg