Lucas Papademos

Lucas Papademos (born October 11, 1947, Athens, Greece) is a Greek economist who served as vice president of the European Central Bank (ECB; 2002–10) and as prime minister of Greece (2011–12). After finishing his secondary education in Greece, Papademos studied in the United States at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics (1970), a master’s degree in electrical engineering (1972), and a Ph.D. in economics (1978). His mentor...