Nikolaos Karamouzis

Nikolaos Karamouzis is President of Grant Thornton, Greece, Executive Chairman of SMERemediumCap, and sits on the Boards of Directors of both Eurobank Cyprus and Eurobank Private Bank Luxembourg. He also sits on the Advisory Boards of diaNEOsis, Stanton Chase, and the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP); on the Boards of Directors of both Quest Holdings and the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE). Up until March 2019, he chaired the Boards of Directors of both Eurobank Ergasias and the Association of Greek Banks. At Eurobank Ergasias, he also served as President of the Strategic Planning Committee and was a member of the Risk Management and Nomination Committees of the bank’s Legal Council.

Karamouzis was CEO of Geniki Bank and sat on the Strategic Planning Committee of the Piraeus Bank Group as a Management Consultant between 2013-2015. He also served as Deputy CEO of Eurobank, headed Wholesale Banking for 14 years, and was Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Greece in the 1990s, Chairman of the National Investment Bank for Industrial Development (ETEVA), Deputy Director of the Hellenic Industrial Development Bank (ETVA), Director of the National Bank of Greece Foreign Exchange Division, Advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland in the United States, and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV). He is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Piraeus. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Piraeus, a master’s degree in Economics from the American University, and a doctorate in Monetary Policy and International Finance from Pennsylvania State University.