The Minister for the National Economy and Finance, with the agreement of the European Commission and the European Stability Mechanism, acting jointly, has renewed the five-year term of office of the five members of the Corporate Governance Council, namely Jacques Le Pape, Kevin Cardiff, Christina Papaconstantinou, Pavlina Karasiotou and Dimitrios Tsakonas.
Therefore, as of 22nd October 2026, the composition of the Corporate Governance Council is the following:
The term of office of the five Corporate Governance (CGC) members shall expire on 22nd of October 2031.
The brief curricula vitae of the members of the new Corporate Governance Council are the following:
Jacques Le Pape
Jacques Le Pape has been a Founding Partner at Ceres Partners since July 2022. Since May 2021, he has also served as Chair of the Board of Directors of Caisse Centrale de Réassurance (CCR) in Paris. He is also a member of UNESCO’s Advisory Oversight Committee.
Jacques Le Pape graduated in physics from the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris in 1990. He is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries and holds a postgraduate degree from the Paris School of Economics.
From 2018 to 2020, he served as the CFO of The Global Fund in Geneva. Prior to that, he was an Inspector General at the French Ministry of Finance’s Inspection Générale des Finances. From 2013 to 2016, Jacques Le Pape served as Executive Vice-President and Corporate Secretary at Air France-KLM where he was a member of the Group Executive Committee.
From 2007 to 2011, he served as Deputy Chief of Staff and Special Adviser to Christine Lagarde at the French Ministry of Finance, before joining the Inspection Générale des Finances. Between 2003 and 2007, he served successively as an adviser to the French Ministers of Justice, Transport and Finance.
From 2000 to 2002, he was Director of the Office of Multilateral Development Institutions at the French Treasury. Prior to that, he served as Deputy General Rapporteur at the French Competition Council, after holding various positions at the French Ministry of Finance and the Insurance Supervisory Commission.
Kevin Cardiff
Kevin Cardiff is a former public official with extensive experience in the interface of public and private sectors, in public finance, banking, governance, tax policy, transparency and industrial relations. He is a member of the audit committee of the Irish Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Marine and board member of a charity foundation. He has served as Chair of the Board of Audit of the European Stability Mechanism, Board Member of KBC Bank Ireland, chair of the audit committee of the Defence Ministry of Ireland.
Mr. Cardiff completed a six-year term of office as a member of the European Court of Auditors at the end of February 2018. In that organisation, he was responsible for a range of audit products, including reviews of organisational issues in various EU bodies such as the ECJ, ECB, SRB.
Previously, Mr. Cardiff was a senior official in the Department of Finance of Ireland and was appointed by the Government as Secretary General of the Department in February 2010. From 2008 to 2012 his work focused on dealing with the financial crisis in the banking system and subsequently the State itself.
During his time with the Irish Finance Ministry, he has been a member of the European Investment Bank board, the Central Bank of Ireland board, the advisory committee of the National Treasury Management Agency, the European Financial Services Committee, chair of the Tax Policy Committee, and so forth.
Kevin Cardiff was educated at the University of Washington, in Seattle, and at University College Dublin.
Christina Papaconstantinou
Christina Papaconstantinou is Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece since 2021 and a Member of the Supervisory Board of the European Central Bank since January 2024. Currently, she is a Member of the Economic and Financial Committee of the European Union (EFC), Alternate Member of the Financial Stability Board Regional Consultative Group for Europe (FSB) and representative of the Bank of Greece in the Eurosystem’s Appia Steering Group providing guidance on the use of new technologies for settlement in central bank money. She is the President of the BoD at DIAS ΙNTERBANKING SYSTEMS S.A., Board Member of the Athens Concert Hall Organization and the Public Debt Management Agency, Member of the National Financial Literacy Steering Committee and of the Private Insurance against Natural Disasters Council.
Before her appointment, she was the Chair of the BoD of PQH Single Special Liquidation S.A. and BoD Member of the Hellenic Capital Market Commission (2019-2021). She also worked as Advisor to the Prime Minister’s Office, as external consultant on matters of state aid, fiscal management, EU company and competition law and as expert in IMF missions. From 2012 to 2014, she served as Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance and as Secretary General of Fiscal Policy at the General Accounting Office of the Hellenic Republic. She holds a Law degree from the University of Athens and a master’s degree (LLM) in European Community Law from the University of London.
Pavlina Karasiotou
Pavlina Karasiotou has been a public sector executive since 2005 and, since 2009, has been permanently assigned to the Ministry of Finance (General Accounting Office of the State). She has served as Secretary General for Fiscal Policy at the Ministry of National Economy and Finance since July 2023 and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Public Debt Management Agency. From 2019 to 2023, she served as Secretary General for Social Security at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, and as Chair of the Interim Governing Committee of the Fund for Capitalized Supplementary Insurance. During the period 2012–2015, she served as Advisor to the Secretary General of the Ministry of Finance (2012–2014) and Director of the Office of the Secretary General for Economic Policy (2014–2015). In the past, she has worked at the European Commission (CEDEFOP). Pavlina Karasiotou is an economist and a graduate of the Department of International and European Economic Studies at the Athens University of Economics and Business. She completed her postgraduate studies in Economics (MSc in Economics) at University College London and holds a PhD in Economics from the Université Catholique de Louvain. She speaks English, French, Spanish, and German.
Dimitrios Tsakonas
Dimitrios Tsakonas is the Director General, Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA), since July 2019. He previously served as: Alternate Director General, Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA), Jan. 2018 – July 2019, Director of Funding & Portfolio Management Directorate, PDMA, Feb. 2015 – Jan. 2018, Expert and Head of Department A’, Public Debt Directorate, Ministry of Finance (MoF), March 2009 – Feb. 2015, Expert, Portfolio Management Department, PDMA, Oct. 1999 – March 2009, Official, Department A’, Public Debt Directorate (MoF), May 1995 – Oct. 1999. He worked at Mobil Oil Hellas S.A., June 1989 – March 1992. Dimitrios Tsakonas holds a MSc in Banking and Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business, a Degree from the Greek National School of Public Administration, and a Mathematics Degree from the University of Ioannina.