Athanasios C. Thanopoulos is the President of the Hellenic
Statistical Authority since 2016 and the Chairman of the
Partnership Group of the European Statistical System
(elected in July 2022). He is also a member (appointed by
the ESSC) of the ESAC.
He has studied at the University of Athens, the Toulouse
School of Economics and the University of Pittsburgh.
Before his selection, by an international committee of
experts, for the position of President of ELSTAT, he taught
for more than 15 years at Universities in the USA, France,
and Greece in the fields of economics, econometrics, and
statistics.
He also served as an adviser on bank resolution, social
insurance and public debt sustainability analysis with the
Greek Council of Economic Advisers while he participated
as an expert in the negotiations of Greece’s three
economic adjustment programs on critical policy areas
such as statistical governance, social security,
pharmaceutical expenditure, public debt sustainability.
His scientific research spans over a wide range of topics
such as DSGE models, public debt dynamics, social
insurance reform, statistical governance, data analytics,
statistical literacy and appears in prestigious
international refereed scientific journals in economics,
statistics data analytics and computer science such as the
Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Economic
Dynamics and Control, Applied Computing and
Informatics, Remote Sensing, Statistical Journal of the
IAOS, among others.