Anastasios Anastassatos will assume duties as the new General Secretary of the Ministry of Finance next week, by replacing Mrs Christina Papakonstantinou.

Mr. Anastassatos previously worked as an economist at Eurobank. He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of Warwick and he is a graduate of the Department of International and European Economic Studies of Athens Economics University.

He served as Lecturer at the University of Loughborough and as an Economist of the Bank of Greece. His research focuses on the fields of international macroeconomic and finance.

Mrs Papakostantinou had informed back in February the former Minister of Finance Mr. Yanni Stournara that she intends to withdraw from the position of General Secretariat of the Ministry for personal reasons, and during the past weeks she informed Mr Anastasato in detail for any outstanding ministry affairs.