Louka T. Katseli is Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece and Chair of
the Hellenic Banking Association. She has served as Greece’s Minister of Labor and Social
Security (2010-2011), Minister of Economy, Competitiveness and Shipping (2009-2010) and a
member of the Hellenic Parliament (2007-2012).
Director of the OECD Development Centre in Paris between 2003-2007, she has been a
member of several prominent international and European Committees including the UN
Committee of Development Policy (1996-2003), the European Commission’s Economic and
Monetary Policy Committees and the “Comité des Sages” on the Reform of the European
Social Charter (1995-1997). Prof. Katseli has also served as Director General of the Center of
Planning and Economic Research (KEPE) (1982-1986) and as International Economic Advisor
to the Greek Prime Minister (1993-1996). She is a member of the Steering Committee of the
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (E.A.D.I.) since 2005
and member of the Euro 50 Group since 2000.
Prof. Katseli holds a Ph.D. (1978) in International and Development Economics from
Princeton University (Distinguished Dissertation in Economics), an MPA in Public Affairs(1974)
from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs, an MA in Economics
(1975) from Princeton University and a BA in Economics (1972, cum laude and Phi Beta
Kappa) from Smith College.
She is Professor of International Economics and Development at the Department of
Economics of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens (1987-present) and has served
as Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at Yale University’s Department of
Economics and the School of Organization and Management (1977-1985). She is the recipient
of numerous distinctions and fellowships, including that of the Best Young Professor at Yale
(1980). She has published extensively in the areas of development economics and finance,
migration management, investment and trade, exchange rate policy and institution-building in
European and developing countries.
