Mr Zanias is Professor of Economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business. He was until recently Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors. He has also served as Chairman of the Department of European and International Economic Studies (1996-1998, 2004-2008). He holds a Phd from the Oxford University. He has been used as an expert by the European Commission, the World Bank and the United Nations. He has served as Chairman and Scientific Director of the Centre of Planning and Economic Research (1998-2001) and Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (2001-2004). He has studied economics at the Economic University of Athens (former ASOEE) and the University of Reading (Great Britain). He has also held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford, Crete, the Agricultural University of Athens and the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has conducted research published widely in international refereed journals.

Pantelis Economou was born on December 20, 1950 in Athens. He is married to Irene Petropoulou and has two children Dimitris and Alexandros

He studied Mathematics at the University of Athens and received his MSc in Operational Research from the University of Sussex, England. He held managerial positions for twenty years in the private sector in both industry and services and then continued as a freelance business consultant.

He is a member of the Hellenic Mathematical Society and the Economic Chamber of Greece.

He is a member of PASOK since 1974. He is always elected as a member of the Central Committee and the National Council, and has been elected several times as a member of the Executive Office and the Political Council.

He was elected as an MP in Athens (Α) Constituency in 1996 and 2009. He participated in the following Committees:

• Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs

• Standing Committee on Public Administration, Public Order and Justice

• Committee on Armament Programs and Contracts

• Committee on Parliament Finances

• Intergroup Committee on examining the migration issue

• Investigation committee on the "SIEMENS" case

In June 2011 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Finance.

Ioannis Mourmouras was born in Thessaloniki in 1965.

He graduated from the Department of Economic Sciences at the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and he continued his studies at the London School of Economics (MSc Economics, 1989) and the University of London (PhD Economics, 1992). At the age of 36 he was unanimously elected Professor of Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki.

He has served as Chairman of post-graduate studies and Chairman of the first Evaluation Committee at the Department of Economics of the University of Macedonia and as Associate Editor of the South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics (SEEJE). He has a 10-year previous academic experience in British Universities (London, Southampton, Edinburgh) and has taught courses, as visiting professor, in European and American universities.

His research activity is primarily focused on dynamic macroeconomic analysis, economic policy and monetary policy and he has received grants from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) of Great Britain, the European Commission, the Leverhulme Trust and others. He has published research papers in a number of renowned international scientific journals and collaborative books. He is the author of three books: Monetary Policy at the European Periphery (Springer, New York, 2000), New Challenges of Economic Policy in the Age of the Euro (in Greek, Athens, 2003) and The Memorandum and the Borrowing Crisis (in Greek, forthcoming, 2011)

He has served as head of the Greek delegation in the Economic Policy Committee of Ecofin (2004) and as a member of the Council of Economic Advisors of the Hellenic Ministry of Finance (2004-2005). Since 2005, he is President of the Supervisory Board of the Greek Body of Sworn – in Valuers (SOE).

He has served as Vice-Chairman in the Macedonian Society of Great Britain (1992-1994) and the Society of Hellenic-European Studies (2003–2005) and is a member of the Scientific Board of the Institute for Democracy “Konstantinos Karamanlis.”

Since 2009 he serves as economic advisor to the President of the New Democracy Party, Mr. Antonis Samaras.