Stavros Thomadakis
Chairman, Public Interest Oversight Board

Stavros Thomadakis is chairman of the Public Interest Oversight Board, which was constituted on March 1, 2005 to oversee the public interest activities of the International Federation of Accountants, especially audit, ethical, and educational standard-setting activities.

He is the former chairman of the Capital Market Commission of Greece during the formative period of that Commission, 1996-2004. He has served as chairman of the Expert Group on Market Abuse of the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR), and directed this group during the entire process of negotiation, technical elaboration and finalization of the Market Abuse Directive and its ‘level two' measures. He has also been chairman of the European Regional Committee of IOSCO for four years.

Educated at Yale University (B.A. in Economics) and M.I.T. (M.Sc. and Ph.D in Financial Economics), he has held professorships for many years at U.S. Universities (Baruch College, CUNY and Sloan School of Management, M.I.T.).

He is currently professor of financial economics at the University of Athens. He has published many scholarly articles and books on banking, finance, industrial economics, and economic history.

He has been a member of the Monetary Committee of the European Community, member of the Board of Directors of the European Investment Bank and of the Commercial Bank of Greece. He has served several times as member of the Greek Council of Economic Advisers. He has also served as Economic Counselor of the Hellenic Banks Association and as Chairman of the Greek Center of Planning and Economic Research.