Athanasios Orphanides

Athanasios Orphanides serves as Professor of the Practice of Global Economics and Management at MIT Sloan School of Management and has been a Senior Fellow at the Center for Financial Studies (CFS) since June 2012. Previously, he was Governor of the Central Bank of Cyprus (2007-2012), where he oversaw the euro introduction and served on the European Central Bank's Governing Council and the European Systemic Risk Board's Steering Committee.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Economics, MIT
• Ph.D. in Economics, MIT

His research focuses on monetary economics, financial stability, and macroeconomic policy, with expertise in central banking operations, monetary policy implementation, and systemic risk assessment. Through the SAFE Policy Center, he actively contributes to high-level academic and policy debates on the intersection of monetary policy and financial market stability.

Orphanides taught graduate courses in macroeconomics and monetary theory at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities during his tenure at the Federal Reserve. His career bridges academic research, central banking practice, and policy formulation, demonstrating deep integration of theoretical frameworks with real-world financial stability challenges.