Louka Katseli

Louka Katseli (2008)

Loukia-Tarsitsa Katseli , better known as Luka Katseli ( Greek Λούκα Κατσέλη , born April 20, 1952 in Athens ) is a Greek economist and politician . From October 2009 to September 2010 she was the Greek Minister of Economic Affairs and then Minister of Labor until June 2011.

biography

Louka Katseli studied economics at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts) and received her PhD from Princeton University in the USA in 1978 .

Scientific activity

As an assistant professor at Yale University from 1977 to 1985, she was named Best New Lecturer in 1980 and received a grant from the German Marshall Fund . She also taught as a visiting professor at Birkbeck University of London (1986) and Athens University of Economics (1986–1987). Since 1987 she has been a professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Athens .

Katseli worked in several international organizations. She was a member of the United Nations Committee on Development Policy and, in 2002, represented Greece at the International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey . She also represented Greece in several European Union committees , including as a member of the EU's monetary and economic policy committees. She has also acted as an advisor to the European Commission and UNCTAD . From 2003 to 2007 she was director of the Development Center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ( OECD ). In numerous publications she commented on economic issues in connection with developing countries and immigration in particular.

Political activity

Since 1976 Louka Katseli was a member of the social democratic party PASOK . From 1993–1996 she was economic advisor to Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou . In the parliamentary elections in 2007 she was elected as a candidate for PASOK in the Greek parliament .

She was re-elected in the October 2009 elections. She is considered to be the architect of the economic program with which PASOK won the election. Katseli announced an economic stimulus plan that she wants to finance with a tax on the rich. On October 7, 2009, she was sworn in as Minister of Economy, Competitiveness and Merchant Navy in the new government of Giorgos Papandreou . During the cabinet reshuffle on September 7, 2010, she moved to the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, and when the cabinet reshuffled after mass protests against the government's austerity measures in June 2011, Katseli, who was seen as an opponent of rigid austerity measures, left the cabinet.

After she was the only PASOK MP to vote against one of the numerous laws passed to combat the economic crisis on October 19, 2011, she was expelled from the parliamentary group; She was resumed two weeks later after she voted for Papandreou in a confidence vote. She then founded a new party with Kinoniki Symfonia , which, however, failed in the election in May 2012 because of the three percent threshold and therefore supported the left-wing SYRIZA in the new election on June 17, 2012 .

On March 23, 2015, she was elected Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Greece (NBG), and four weeks later Chair of the Board of Directors of the Greek Bankers Association.

Attack on September 23, 2009

On September 23, 2009, an explosive device with little effect exploded in the hallway of the floor she lived in in the Kolonaki district of Athens, causing minor property damage. The explosion was preceded by two telephone warnings. The attack was attributed to the terrorist group " Conspiracy of the Fire Cells ". who later also took responsibility for the attack.

family

Katseli is married to Gerasimos Arsenis , who served as Minister of Economics, Defense and Education in several PASOK governments between 1982 and 2000. She is the sister of a former PASOK MP. She has two children.

Web links

• Personal website
• Profile on the website of the Research Institute for the Future of Work IZA
• parliament.gr

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the OECD website
2. ↑ Deutsche Welle, October 6, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ List of ministers of the Papandreou government 2009 ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Greek newspaper, October 26, 2011, p. 2
5. ↑ ekathimerini.com November 5, 2011
6. ↑ Protothema.gr ( Memento of the original from June 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. May 30, 2012 
7. ↑ Explosive device hidden in a saucepan . Kölner Stadtanzeiger, September 24, 2009
8. ↑ Article. in.gr, September 23, 2009
9. ↑ Article. in.gr, September 24, 2009
10. ^ Letter of confession after posting at election campaign event . Hamburger Abendblatt, October 3, 2009