Head (Coordinator) of the Office
The Coordinator of the Office is appointed by the Regulatory Committee of the Parliament after proposal by the President of the Parliament, according to the Article 5 of the Special Regulation of internal operation and organization of the State Budget Office (Resolution of the Speaker of the Greek parliament, 16074, Government Gazette Α΄ 2123/31.12.2010).
John Tsoukalas
Coordinator
John Tsoukalas is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School (department of Economics), University of Glasgow. Previously, he has served as the Head of the Economics department and Vice Dean of the Adam Smith Business School. From 2020 he is serving as the Academic lead of the ESRC funded Productivity Institute, Scotland Forum. He has served at the Bank of England as an economist in Monetary Analysis and a research fellow at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. He has also held a visiting professor appointment at the Johns Hopkins University in the U.S.A. His research interests span macroeconomics and finance. He has published in top economics academic journals such as the American Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, Review of Finance and has been invited in numerous conferences and seminars.
He holds a BA degree from the Athens University of Economics and Business and a PhD degree from the University of Maryland, College Park in the U.S.A