Chrystalla Georghadji (;

Famagusta Famagusta, also known by several other names, is a city located on the eastern coast of Cyprus. It is located east of the capital, Nicosia, and possesses the deepest harbour of the island. During the Middle Ages (especially under the maritime ...

, Cyprus, 13 July 1956) is a Cypriot economist who served as governor of the

Central Bank of Cyprus The Central Bank of Cyprus ( ) is the national central bank for the Republic of Cyprus within the Eurosystem, and was the Cypriot central bank from 1963 to 2007, issuing the Cypriot pound. Since 2014, it has also been Cyprus's national competent ...

(CBC) from 2014 until 2019. She is the first female governor of the CBC.Michele Kambas (28 March 2019)
Cyprus appoints Constantinos Herodotou as Central Bank head, ECB rep
Reuters.

Career

She graduated in Economics at the

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; , ''Ethnikó kai Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the University of Athens (UoA), is a public university in Athens, Greece, with various campuses alo ...

, Greece in 1978. She did a postgraduate in Economics and Econometrics at the

University of Southampton The University of Southampton (abbreviated as ''Soton'' in post-nominal letters) is a public university, public research university in Southampton, England. Southampton is a founding member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universit ...

. She was Auditor General of the Republic from 1998 to 2014, an independent position which monitors public spending. On 11 April 2014, she was appointed governor of the

References

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