Council of Economic Advisors

Zafeira Kastrinaki holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick, a Master’s degree in Finance from the University of Sheffield, and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has extensive academic experience, having served as Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at Brunel University and Assistant Professor at the University of Bath and University College London, while she has also developed research projects at Imperial College London on innovation and economic growth. Her research interests focus on Microeconomics and Competition Economics, with significant publications in high-prestige international academic journals.

In recent years, she served on the Council of Economic Advisors as Head of the Economic Growth and Structural Reforms Division, playing an active role in shaping policies that enhance the competitiveness and resilience of the Greek economy. At the same time, she represents Greece in European and international committees (ECOFIN, OECD, Global Forum on Productivity), and in 2023 she was elected Chair of the Energy and Climate Change Committee of the Economic Policy Committee (EPC) under the ECOFIN Council.