Loukas Stemitsiotis

Head of Unit, Thematic Analysis, DG Employment and Social Affairs, European Commission,

Dr Loukas Stemitsiotis is Head of the Thematic Analysis Unit of the DG EMPL of the European Commission. From 2012 to 2016, he was Head of Unit of the Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Committee and the Economic Policy Committee of the EU, which prepare the ECOFIN Council. From 2010 to 2011, he was Head of the Unit responsible for Globalisation, Trade and Development at the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs of the European Commission. From 2008 to 2010, he was Head of the Unit responsible for the Economies of the EU neighbouring countries, including Macro-financial Assistance. Since joining the European Commission in 1990, Dr Stemitsiotis worked in the Macroeconomics and Fiscal policies Department, in the Monetary matters Department, mainly dealing with the preparation of the euro, the European Monetary Union and international monetary relations, in the International economic matters Department, and in the Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Committee.

Before joining the Commission, Dr Stemitsiotis worked with Money Market Services International, London; after having worked as economist at the Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales, Paris, France.

Dr Loukas Stemitsiotis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris-I-Sorbonne, France, 1990, with a published thesis on exchange rates and the international monetary system.

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