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 European Statistical Advisory Committee (ESAC) and the European Statistical Forum (ESF).
He has studied at the University of Athens (BSc), the Toulouse School of Economics (DEA, DEEQA) and the University of Pittsburgh (PhD).
Before being selected by an international selection committee of experts to lead the Hellenic Statistical Authority, he was a University teacher and professional researcher for more than 15 years teaching economics, econometrics and statistics in the USA, Greece and France.
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.