Anthony Courakis

Anthony Courakis was born in Crete in 1944. He read economics at the University of Manchester and Nuffield College, Oxford, and has taught at the University of Oxford since 1971. For the last thirty years he has been an Official Fellow and member of the Governing Body of Brasenose College, Oxford. His expertise lies primarily in the areas of Money and Banking, Macroeconomics, and International Economics. His research, numerous conference and seminar presentations, and extensive publications in these areas range over theory, institutions, applied econometrics, policy, history of economic thought, and economic history. Empirically, his work relates to the experience of nine countries of the European Union and the Euro area as a whole, the US, Japan, and of certain countries in Latin America, South East Asia, and Africa.

He has been an adviser to various governments, central banks and financial institutions, a member of various commissions and working groups, a visiting professor in a number of universities, and has also organised and chaired many international conferences.

In Greece, he has served as an adviser to the Bank of Greece, as a member of the government’s Committee on Interest Rates for the reform of the banking system, and as an adviser to the New Democracy party on matters of Economic Policy.

He is the Literary Executor to Sir John Hicks and the Chairman of the John Hicks Foundation.

Ambassador Courakis is married to Rosalind. They have a daughter and a son.