Euclid Tsakalotos

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Full Name	Euclid Tsakalotos
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Jun 19, 1960(1960-06-19)
Age	64
Birthplace	Rotterdam
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	South Holland
Horoscope	Gemini

Euclid Tsakalotos Biography

Euclid Tsakalotos is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on June 19, 1960 in Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands. Tsakalotos has been married for a while to Heather D. Gibson, who is a Scottish economist who is currently the Director-Advisor for the Bank of Greece and his frequently writing and research partner. They first met while Tsakalotos was an instructor in The University of Kent and they were later married in Canterbury. They have three kids. They has two houses in Kifisia together with an office situated in Athens and a vacation home in Preveza which is all thanks to an extensive estate owned by Tsakalotos the father of their son. His father is his ancestor. Euclid Tsakalotos has a close cousin of Thrasyvoulos Tsakalotos who served as the Chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff from 1951 until 1952. Tsakalotos is said to have stated that his great-granduncle was in one side, the “other side, the wrong side” during the Greek Civil War, and was concerned that his great-grandson was likely to turn out to be the “liberal, [but] certainly not anything further to the left.”

After completing his doctoral degree, Tsakalotos entered into an academic career. His first position was researcher in The University of Kent, from 1989 until 1990. From October 1990 until June 1993 Tsakalotos was a professor at Kent University as lecturer. The year 1993 saw Tsakalotos along with his spouse relocated to Greece and in the month of October 1994, he started lecturing at Athens University of Economics and Business. In September of 2010 Tsakalotos was appointed a permanent professor in the department of economics and finance in The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens which is more often known as”the University of Athens.

In his capacity as an academic, Tsakalotos served as a member of the executive committee of the Hellenic Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (POSDEP). In the mid-2000s, Tsakalotos led his students in a several months- long protest against proposed reforms to the Greek education system. Thanos Tsouknidas, an accountant that knew Tsakalotos at the time, said: “He was there, involved in the struggle. We were fighting together.” His active role in the teachers’ union brought him popularity, and according to a former student, his classes were often packed.

Shortly after Syriza was formed, Tsakalotos stood as their candidate for the prefecture of Preveza in the 2004 legislative election. The Greek government- debt crisis effectively began in 2009 and was a backdrop for Tsakalotos’ involvement in the creation of Syriza’s economic policy. Tsakalotos has been credited as the “brains behind” the policy, and as a member of Syriza’s “economics quartet”, alongside John Milios, Giorgos Stathakis and Yannis Dragasakis. He has also been credited as one author of Syriza’s Thessaloniki Programme, a manifesto which proposed a set of policies oriented towards reversing austerity measures while maintaining a balanced budget.

Tsakalotos is identified as Tsakalotos has been described as a “Marxist”, and Ovenden has stated the following “While Keynes is the main economic reference point for Varoufakis, who opposed the Brussels deal, for Tsakalotos, who signed it, Marx is more that guide to economic and political analysis.” Paul Mason described Tsakalotos as an “classic Marxist of the New Left,” noting to say that “Tsakalotos comes from that school of Marxism which learned from the 1970s onwards to make compromises with capitalist reality.” When he spoke to the Financial Times in September 2015 after his appointment, he declared: “I’m one of the government’s most left-wing ministers, politically speaking. However, I want to do things like the recapitalisation of the banks. I can do things that aren’t particularly left-wing.”

Euclid Tsakalotos Net Worth

Euclid Tsakalotos is one of the richest Economist from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Euclid Tsakalotos 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tsakalotos was born in Rotterdam The Netherlands in the year 1960. His father was Stefanos Tsakalotos, a civil engineer working within the ship industry and his family moved in the United Kingdom in 1965 when the younger Tsakolotos was just five years old. He attended St. Paul’s School, London from 1973 to 1978. In the alumni magazine of St Paul’s School magazine, he was praised by his teacher from the past, Keith Perry, saying that the teacher had done “much to bolster [his] self-confidence”. While in the institution, he founded the school’s Economics and Politics Society (known as Polecon) along with his acquaintance Owen Tudor, who now is employed by the Trades Union Congress.

Euclid Stefanou Tsakalotos (Greek: Eukleides Stephanou Tsakalotos , Greek pronunciation: [ef’klidis ste’fanu tsaka’lotos]; born in 1960) is a Greek politician and economist who served as the Minister of Finance of Greece from 2015 until 2019. The politician is also a part of Syriza’s Central Committee of Syriza and has been representing Athens B in the Hellenic Parliament since May 2012.

Tsakalotos was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, but moved to the United Kingdom at a young age. He went to St Paul’s School in London before studying Philosophy, Politics and Economics at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. He went on to complete a master’s degree at the Institute of Development Studies, which is attached to the University of Sussex, and returned to Oxford to complete a doctorate in economics under the supervision of Włodzimierz Brus, which he did in 1989. From 1989 to 1993, Tsakalotos worked at the University of Kent, where he met his partner, Heather D. Gibson. He moved to Greece, and taught at the Athens University of Economics and Business from 1994 to 2010, becoming a professor of economics. Since 2010, he has been a professor of economics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He has written a number of books in both Greek and English and has been published in a range of different academic journals. Due to his upbringing in the UK, he speaks English with a British accent.

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As a student at the University of Oxford, Tsakalotos joined the Communist Party of Greece (Interior), a eurocommunist party that had split from the main Communist Party of Greece, a Marxist–Leninist party, in 1968. In the early 1990s, shortly after moving to Greece, Tsakalotos became a member of Synaspismos, a radical left-wing political party, which was to become the largest constituent party of Syriza. Syriza itself was formed in 2004, ahead of that year’s legislative election, as a coalition of 13 left-wing political parties in Greece. Tsakalotos was elected to their Central Committee in December 2004. However, he also remained a prominent member of Synaspismos and served on both their Central Political Committee and their Political Secretariat until a July 2013 party congress, during which Syriza voted to become an independent political party and for all component parties to disband, including Synaspismos.

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In December 2014, the Hellenic Parliament did not approve the new President with the supermajority required, and so a snap election was called for the end of January 2015. A few days before the 2015 election took place, Tsakalotos was quizzed on Syriza’s economic policies by a number of economists, debt campaigners and investment analysts at the London School of Economics. Tsakalotos said there was a need for fiscal space, meaning 6–7 billion Euros a year to spend on an expansionary fiscal policy. He also said that they would cancel the austerity budgets already agreed with the European Union (EU) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), pay back the loans from the IMF and focus on rescheduling and writing off the loans from the EU.