Lucas Demetrios Papademos is a Greek economist and academic who served as 12th Prime Minister of Greece from November 2011 to May 2012, leading a national unity government in the wake of the Greek debt crisis. A technocrat, 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.
Papademos in 2012
Lucas Papademos as Vice President of the European Central Bank, Michalis Sarris, Finance Minister of Cyprus and George Alogoskoufis, Finance Minister of Greece during a 2007 ECOFIN at Brussels.
Prime Minister Papademos speaking to the Hellenic Parliament on 14 November 2011
The Bank of Greece is the Greek member of the Eurosystem and has been the monetary authority for Greece from 1927 to 2000, issuing the drachma. Since 2014, it has also been Greece's national competent authority within European Banking Supervision. Its headquarters is located in Athens on Panepistimiou Street, and it also has several branches across the country. Unlike most contemporary central banks, the Bank of Greece still has private shareholders and its stock is listed on the Athens Exchange.
Head office of the Bank of Greece in Athens
The Bank of Greece branch in Greece's second-largest city Thessaloniki
The Bank of Greece branch on the island of Rhodes